unholyGhostwriter
Dreamer
I'm finally getting out of what's probably the worst writer's block I've ever had: haven't written more than two paragraphs at a time for the past ten months, and most of them end up getting deleted anyway. Writing again has been great, but I've also had to deal with a problem I've been avoiding for a while. You know those writers that constantly come up with new ideas (singular plot points, characters, character arcs, etc.) and start to write them but end up getting carried away, try to flesh all of them out into whole stories, and effectively end up finishing none? Yeah, I'm one of those. It doesn't help that I'm a pantser and write without any kinda foresight whatsoever. I've decided to write out lists of any new ideas I come up with, set most aside for later, and incorporate any others into my already ongoing works, and it's worked out for the most part. Still, I always get kind of disappointed whenever I come up with an interesting idea that just ends up wilting in my computer because it couldn't fit in anywhere. I think that's a reasonable reaction as a writer, though. Every idea is important, especially when you're trying to create something.
So, to anyone else who also has the impulse to write every little idea into a full-fledged story: how do you work around it?
So, to anyone else who also has the impulse to write every little idea into a full-fledged story: how do you work around it?