Having kind of a weird problem right now. Magnificent 7 seems to have jarred something loose in my brain. For the first time since back in my Sentinel days, I'm freakin' *drowning* in genuine, honest-to-goodness story ideas... ideas that actually seem like they might be worth WRITING. Ideas that come complete with at least half-a-story's worth of PLOT. It's like somebody flipped a switch and suddenly I have a muse again. Very weird.
The problem, now, has been that I have so many competing ideas, and I don't know where to start. I've been taking notes like crazy in kind of a stream-of-consciousness brainstorming fest to catch all the little moments and bits of dialogue, and have specced out 50% of at least eight different stories in the last week... but by the time I'm ready to start the *writing* part of any of them, there's some other idea popping up that seems equally worthwhile, and I'm shifting gears to get *that* one brainstormed and documented so I won't lose it from being focused on the earlier idea.
I'm sure there's a huge portion of this that's me subconsciously putting off the "hard part" by spending endless time scoping and speccing, but it's still a little ironic. All these years when I'd have killed for just *one* workable story idea that I felt like I could write, and now I've got so many, I'm paralyzed with it.
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