I’m in fact a little curious how other writers are doing this…
Do you ever feel like your head is bursting with all the ideas you got? How do you sort them out? How do you arrange them?
Let’s say: you get an idea:
· where do you go with it?
· how do you know what to do with it?
· where do you start with it?
· do you file it? And if yes, where?
· do you park it until you need it or are ready to write the story?
At times I feel like my head is exploding, having so many ideas while at other days my brain just goes blank. But once I get these ideas, what am I doing with them? I do have a file on my computer, named “ideas.” Occasionally I go back to find out if they’re useful at that moment. And so many times I realized, that I’ve got no clue what I wanted with that idea or where to go from there. It can be annoying.
Right now I’m working on a series of novellas and novels… the first book of the series is completed and with the editor now. So is the third one.
I’m still writing the second one… but since the first and second’s character’s are “overlapping” I need to work very carefully on that second book to not make plot mistakes I don’t want to expect my future readers to put up with.
I admit, my thoughts, my idea developing and my research circle mainly around this particular series.
When I lately needed a break from working on my second book, I found myself having a brainwave. And instead of “parking” the idea in my particular file, I decided instead to start on the fourth book of the series. I have huge plans for that book, considering I briefly introduced a few of this particular’s story’s characters to my readers of this blog.
To my great astonishment, I found myself writing like crazy on that fourth book. I’m enthusiastic since it seems I only have to put pen to paper and it writes nearly by itself.
Until a few weeks ago when I discovered a new major character of the series I repeated what I did before and quickly decided not to “park” the idea until I get there, but just start the fifth book of the series.
Here I am now, at the same time working on the second, the fourth and the fifth book of the series.
I was asking myself: am I getting into conflicts? What will happen if I can’t ‘switch’ quickly enough and start making mistakes? But so far I’m good, I know exactly which character belongs where and what my plans with them are.
And still: There is this one question: Did I have too many ideas at the same time? Can I continue like this? How are other writers handling this kind of “idea attack”?
Do you ever feel like having “too many ideas”? Are you writing on one and one book or story? Am I doing something wrong? Please, help me out, I’d be grateful for your opinion.
