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RedneckRocker First Loyalty: Yourself from None Of Your Business Since: Jan, 2001
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#1: Jan 11th 2013 at 5:36:24 PM

I'm not suffering from a case of writer's block at the moment; rather, I have so many ideas I'd like to work on, but can't seem to keep 'em organized. Either I scribble notes for one project, only to revise them later on, or come up with a different idea, telling myself "I'll work on Project A later."

Anybody else suffering from this sort of creativity issue?

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chihuahua0 Since: Jul, 2010
#2: Jan 11th 2013 at 6:44:18 PM

That used to be my primary problem. Now the problem is actually writing the story that I have stick with over a year.

Make sure you're keeping momentum with your current project (as in, you're making progress with it regularly). As long as that settled, which it seems like you already do, then you sure probably put some time into writing down all your ideas in an organized area.

Either get a single notebook, or create a word document (and back it up multiple times).

Another idea is to set aside a day to pursue one of your smaller ideas (preferably a short story) as a way of getting it out of your system.

judasmartel Since: Aug, 2011
#3: Jan 11th 2013 at 9:18:56 PM

Same problem here.

Too many ideas, but I can't start writing even just one chapter.

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#4: Jan 12th 2013 at 2:25:04 AM

I create different files for all my ideas and come back to them when I come up with more related stuff.

I use Storybook 4 to keep track of thoughts and ideas for scenes within a story idea as you can just dump them in as they occur to you and then you can thrash the order into shape later. You can also mark ideas as rejected but then "unreject" them later if you have a change of heart.

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