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The "Oooh, Shiny!" problem
Oct. 6th, 2007 01:18 pmI'm really hoping that I'm not the only one with this problem...
*Bam* An idea for a story hits from out of the blue! Oooh, it's so shiny and wonderful so you scrabble off and feverishly work on it, but you're only partially through it when... *Bam* Ooh look, over there, that idea is so shiny too! So idea number one is put aside while shiny new idea number two takes over. Halfway through that one... *Bam* Look! In the sky, shiny idea number three!!!!
and so on and so on....
Occassionally one of the lovely little shinies actually is the ending to a previous one and, wonder of wonders, you've actually managed to finish something, but more often than not all you've got is seventeen different once shiny half finished stories on your hard drive.
Please tell me I'm not insane and this sort of thing happens to other people!
*Bam* An idea for a story hits from out of the blue! Oooh, it's so shiny and wonderful so you scrabble off and feverishly work on it, but you're only partially through it when... *Bam* Ooh look, over there, that idea is so shiny too! So idea number one is put aside while shiny new idea number two takes over. Halfway through that one... *Bam* Look! In the sky, shiny idea number three!!!!
and so on and so on....
Occassionally one of the lovely little shinies actually is the ending to a previous one and, wonder of wonders, you've actually managed to finish something, but more often than not all you've got is seventeen different once shiny half finished stories on your hard drive.
Please tell me I'm not insane and this sort of thing happens to other people!
