What does one do when writing one story while an idea for a completely different story sneaks into your head? What about when you're already bouncing between two stories already? This is the quagmire I've encountered. This new idea has got me all hot and bothered; I'm considering putting one of the two on the back burner while I develop this new one. I just feel so compelled. It's a new spin on an older idea, and I LOVE IT! That and I think it's brilliant! Any-who, it is a story that I've wanted to tell and wasn't quite sure how to execute. But now I've got it.
On another note, more excitinger to be exact, I feel I've finally chosen a title for my sci-fi novel. I spent the last couple of weeks kicking two ideas around after sorting through half a dozen others beforehand. I have chosen to title it Call of the Gods ©. I'm playing an epic fanfare each time I say it because everything's better with theme music. Okay, not really, but it sounded good. The title is one I've held onto since I began writing the first words of what was to be a novella, but morphed into a huger piece. I wasn't sure if it would fit though, until I asked a couple of reliable people: my unbiased wife and my learned sister, both opinions I value above all others.
One obstacle overcome, but now I struggle with the above stated. What to do, what to do...
I think you do what all of us do - put the old story aside and start on the new!
ReplyDeleteYou can always go back and start over. Sometimes, it's even better because you get a new perspective and might even come up with something better than you started with.
That seems to be my own consensus. I think I could do with a new and refreshed perspective.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the title breakthrough. Always tough for me.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I don't know what to tell you about which idea to work on. I tend to stick with one story and make the other ideas wait, BUT what if you are able to take that passion for the new idea and write a really great story? What to do, what to do. I have no idea. Yet I know that one could continually get swept away by new ideas and never finish the old ones, if they let their head get turned by every shiny new story.
I've pretty much racked my brain on the title subject. I know what you mean about shiny new stories. I've limited myself to two at a time. I have about eight other ideas waiting for their turns. It's just so tough when an idea compels you so that you have to work on it.
ReplyDeleteWhen I get an idea for a new story, rather than stopping everything, I write down some quick notes about the idea in a notebook.
ReplyDeleteThose &^%&^, shiny, new, ideas...always ruining a perfectly good 'writing-streak'. You must resist the dark call - write down the idea for later - and keep on with Call of the Gods...You must!
ReplyDeleteOkay, maybe the melodramatics are a bit overstated...but seriously...you must. haha.
Oh I'm still working on Call of the Gods, most assuredly. I appreciate the melodramatics, Master Yoda, lol! It's the fantasy one I'm setting aside, for now.
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