Do you have any 'side' ideas tickling your writing muscles right now?

[TheCrystallineEntity]

I have a bunch of smaller stories that'll probably end up in a short story collection at some point. Sci-fi magical girls making first contact with aliens, a slice-of-death set in the underworld featuring odd-job gods, an examination of portal fantasy, and a few others.

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

I say write a brief fragment of the idea and get back to writing Sinbad. Revision can work wonders.

Do you have any idea how distracting it would be to do that? I mean I could, but not for every idea that poops into my brain (and yes, emphasis on poop because not all of them are ideas that 'stick' if that makes sense. I have had a couple ideas start out like 'wow this is great' and start writing it and go 'wait this kinda sucks' lol)

When I do do this, I usually write chapter 1 and shove it in a 'waiting room' folder for later. Currently, all my other projects are in the waiting room. I don't want to start more until I get a good bit of the way into sinbad. If I don't do it this way then no work would get done on Sinbad because my writing brain is zeroing in on every heat seeking squirrel of an idea that crops up lol

 

[BlueFire]

Do you have any idea how distracting it would be to do that? I mean I could, but not for every idea that poops into my brain (and yes, emphasis on poop because not all of them are ideas that 'stick' if that makes sense. I have had a couple ideas start out like 'wow this is great' and start writing it and go 'wait this kinda sucks' lol)

When I do do this, I usually write chapter 1 and shove it in a 'waiting room' folder for later. Currently, all my other projects are in the waiting room. I don't want to start more until I get a good bit of the way into sinbad. If I don't do it this way then no work would get done on Sinbad because my writing brain is zeroing in on every heat seeking squirrel of an idea that crops up lol

ha ha, okay.

 

[A. E. Lowan]

Do you have any idea how distracting it would be to do that? I mean I could, but not for every idea that poops into my brain (and yes, emphasis on poop because not all of them are ideas that 'stick' if that makes sense. I have had a couple ideas start out like 'wow this is great' and start writing it and go 'wait this kinda sucks' lol)

When I do do this, I usually write chapter 1 and shove it in a 'waiting room' folder for later. Currently, all my other projects are in the waiting room. I don't want to start more until I get a good bit of the way into sinbad. If I don't do it this way then no work would get done on Sinbad because my writing brain is zeroing in on every heat seeking squirrel of an idea that crops up lol

I do. But for me - and we all have our processes and what works for us as individuals and also as writers of whatever genre calls us the loudest - if I don't get those invading ideas written down somewhere, I run the risk of them becoming louder and louder in my head until I am either forced to stop my current project and try to catch it all, or worse, I run the serious risk of just flat forgetting.

ha ha, okay.

There's only one hard and fast rule to writing, and this is cross-genre, applies to everything.

Writers write.

All else is process. And sometimes, some of us have a little too much caffeine. Welcome to Scribes, hon.

 

[Naruzeldamaster]

I do. But for me - and we all have our processes and what works for us as individuals and also as writers of whatever genre calls us the loudest - if I don't get those invading ideas written down somewhere, I run the risk of them becoming louder and louder in my head until I am either forced to stop my current project and try to catch it all, or worse, I run the serious risk of just flat forgetting.

I think I've finally figured out my process. I got carried away writing additional chapters in my side projects when I didn't want to work on Sinbad, but now I'm honed in on a method that I think works. I've decided that I'm not allowed to even peep at my other projects until I'm nearly done with Sinbad too.

There's only one hard and fast rule to writing, and this is cross-genre, applies to everything.

Writers write.

All else is process. And sometimes, some of us have a little too much caffeine. Welcome to Scribes, hon.

Or too little, if I drink less than 4 Monsters a day I feel like a Zombie /silly (Side note: Do NOT drink that many monsters in a day if your body can't 'handle' energy drinks never mind Monster)

Side Tangent: one of my characters has an energy drink addiction, but you'd never know because she's already high energy (Some would say she's high strung, but not like, cartoonishly) to begin with. The reason she has it is very sad, so she overcomes it with...more energy drinks. Eventually her best friend convinces her to find a solution to said addiction in a healthy way. Her solution as a potion master is that she creates an 'energy' drink she only needs to drink once a year. That same formula could also power a gundam sized mech for a week if used as fuel, so she's making quite a lot of coin on the side. (Nobody uses it for the energy drink reason for obvious concerns)