too many ideas

Have you ever had that really cool idea for a story, while trying to write another? And then what - drop the old story for a while and write the new, or try to break the writer's block first and start the new once the old is finished?

All the time.

edited 25th Nov '10 4:04:48 AM by CyganAngel

At times I get so many ideas that I can't even write them down without being distracted by a new one, so you are not alone.

I have so many plotbunnies, they're reproducing and taking over the field in my head.

And... that gave me another story idea.

Damn.

I used to do this. Now I have ONE story idea, and all ideas I get from now on go to that story.

...How? Please tell!

Simple. I like an interaction? I like a scenario? I add it to my story. I already pretty much have every character archetype I like and enjoy in it. It's fairly easy to do.

I have three generations, back stories, AU s,

It's pretty dense. =.=

edited 25th Nov '10 9:06:24 AM by MrAHR

Well, that doesn't help.

How do you combine a superhero story with a deconstruction of magical girls and a story about angels and demons and a story about giant transforming mecha-bunnies?

Simple. Have there be super heroes in the story with angels and demons, and have a subfaction of badass normals that can use mechas.

edited 25th Nov '10 9:09:41 AM by MrAHR

I think I would run out of room to characterize them all...

You don't need to work on one story at a time. I never have. I have literally hundreds of half-finished stories that I jump back and forth between, and the best of them actually get finished.

I had this problem with Galaday and I solved it by combining ideas into hybrid ideas. Other times I would take a concept from one character and apply it to another. Mix and match, if you will. And right everything down (it doesn't matter where you write it down. It could be on notecards, cellphone messages, e-mail, forum posts, and even the fridge). Of course, they gave some 3000 characters to work with, but at least they had a home and I could introduce them whenever the story moved to a new location or I needed some interesting extra to show up.

I read somewhere that Stephen King doesn't write down every idea. If something resonates, the reasoning goes, it will attract other ideas to itself and incorporate them until it reaches critical mass. If it doesn't resonate, it will be deservedly forgotten.

Me, I've got notebooks full of ideas. I finally decided to stop beginning projects as they occurred to me, pick one book, and work on it until it's done.

Same here. I have ideas for characters and scenarios all the time. Sometimes I'm in the process of mulling over something in my head, and then I HAZ AN IDEAZ. Or sometimes when I dream, I dream up some crazy ****, and then I write it down and then I HAZ AN IDEAZ.

I plan to write them as separate short stories as a part of a giant universe in the shape of a giant book.