An inversion... HELP ME!

For the past 2 months, whenever I watch a show or play a video game, I always seem to get inspired and want to write a story that uses the elements from that story I like...

The thing is... This was nice at first, but now I JUST CAN'T SHUT IT OFF! I think I may be cursed with awesome, only this is more annoying and its driving me insane.

How do I stop this madness?!

yes, I WANT writer's block!

edited 31st Dec '10 6:27:44 PM by ZaneBarrow

Become a multi-group Game Master and spill these ideas on the players.

Write out synopses for the ideas, pick out a few of your favorites and try to flesh them out into a full-fledged material.

I just want to know how I can stop this form happening in the future! I want to stop thinking I can be a better Edgar Allen Poe than Edgar Allen Poe!

I think I may be cursed with awesome

No, you're not, dude.

Now, the day you hve so many rampant plot bunnies going through your head that you have to start an entire thread to get rid of them...

fine... I'm cursed with a massive plot headache...

If this keeps happening, write synopses out for future ones as well. It's what I do with hypomanic episodes. Don't waste any ideas. Write them out somewhere even in bare bones because they might actually get somewhere one day.

I believe the word you are looking for is hypermanic, not hypomanic, otherwise your advice is rather good.

@ OP: I live the madness to the point that you wanting Writer's Block reminds me of cheese, causing me to wonder whether dwarves make cheese and if they don't I then wonder what would their reactions be when they taste cheese. Unlike you I don't have to view something to have it work, it just hits me like a train coming out of nowhere. I think I have Plot Tribbles instead of Plot Bunnies, due to their very high chances of breeding a new idea.

The term hypomania is actually correct — mania is a state of counterproductive and even destructive hyperagitation. With hypomania, you get the sanity of stable state and increased creative of mania. Most bipolar artists and researchers make their breakthroughs in hypomanic states. :p

Actually try to write these ideas into a story. You'll come across Writer's Block eventually.

I posted this recently in a similar thread:

'I didn't read all of them, but I'm betting they can all work. My tip on which to do is "do whichever you're most passionate about, " because you will be more motivated as a result.

Rather, my tip is that you try to finish a work. The only way to truly get a sense of what needs to be done for a story's components to function symbiotically upon writing (in other words your skill at brainstorming and outlining) is by writing.

Basically, what happened with me was as I kept finishing written works I became more and more skeptical of ideas' potential and saw more flaws ahead of time such as "why would he do that?" and "why would the audience care about this character?" As such, the number of ideas I considered to be good diminished greatly and I was left with just one to three good ideas at a time. I also began to view one-sentence ideas like "a robot-mummy hellbent on destroying the world" as being worthless until someone expands on it by answering questions like "who's the lead protagonist?" "why do we care about him and thus want him to succeed?" "how does he solve the problem or what leads to his downfall?" and so on.'

If you want writer's block, all you really have to do is to start writing a story.

D'aw, Ninja'd because I only scanned the posts before mine, and I usually ignore AHR, who had a previous avatar similar to Saind Joseph's.

edited 2nd Jan '11 3:54:10 PM by SalFishFin

I'm pretty sure that thing where you want to write, and have tons of ideas to write, and can't choose not to want to write...

...is a thing that most writers have. Why the hell else would anyone write? It's a pain in the ass with little tangible gain.

I'd look up a witty quote from some famous writer about this subject, but I have to go write.

Maybe I can finish my editing run today and move on to an entirely new section. Yaaaaay!

Good news guys... The ideas screaming into my head gave me insomnia. After being sleep deprived for 2 days, I collapsed and the annoying excess of inspiration is gone.

And I did take your advice and write down my ideas... In fact I'm trying to write a novel now. Its called "The Aether"... Too bad it'll probably never get published. Oh well.