It's hard to set ideas to the side and hope you'll still be inspired when you have time for them. But it's also hard to finish stories when you try working on a million different things at once. Either way, it takes a certain level of discipline. I think writing the occasional short story while working on a novel is okay, though - sometimes it helps to take a break and write something different for a change.
I agree, I think short things let out bursts of creativity that don't necessarily go with whatever you're currently working on, but also don't detract from it in the same way that a full novel would do.
What does everyone consider a short story? Is it word count or amount of chapters that make it short?
I love bus crash stories too. Every BSB fanfic author should write at least one! Who here has and hasn't written a bus crash story?
Guilty as charged. A bus crash is the catalyst in Gobosei. Who wants to be my one phone call?
I do have a database of my stories on Google Sheets. Maybe I should add a column for sort of malady each one featured.
For those of you who enjoy medical drama, what's an illness or injury you would like to have fictionally inflicted upon one of the Boys? Give me some ideas! LOL
Ooh, what kinds of things do you track in there?
I'm just going to keep challenging you to make something mundane interesting. A cold? Herpes? A stubbed toe? Whatever.
Sixteen days really isn't bad, but I get the frustration. When you've been writing consistently and clipping right along, and then it takes you over two weeks to finish a chapter... ugh!
Oh I know, it sounds so silly saying "And then it took me 16 days! What a long time!" when I know that it's taken me far, far, far longer to write a scene, let alone a chapter. But I think it was that consistency getting derailed that threw me. And now I'm right back to almost finishing the next chapter over a few days, so if this only happens once every twenty chapters or so for the rest of this epic, then I'll call it a win.