The brain doesn't want to stop.

[temporus]

I just want to know one thing.

Why, when I'm all ready diligently working on a story, I keep finding more stories popping up in my head, practically whole, and ready to be written?  I can't pause what I'm working on to write it.   I have to be satisfied with just notes.   But, in the immortal words of Charlie Brown:

AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!!!!!

Okay, I got that out.   Now I feel a smidge better.

After a low productive weekend, I managed to get back up to my quota last night, a challenge with a one month old.   I'm nominally behind though, because I was hoping to have the first story of the year done by now.   Picking up the pace might not be feasible, so I think, I need to be more efficient.   Try for shorter stories, because if I keep writing these longer ones, it will slow me down.  And they'll be more challenging to sell.

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[l-clausewitz.livejournal.com]

Do make the notes, then. You'll be surprised at how much they satisfy your writing expectations.

[temporus.livejournal.com]

Oh, I do make the notes. But I'm building up quite the backlog of short story ideas. I'm sure there will be a day when I bemoan finding new ideas to work on, and then rue the days when I had the audacticy to even complain about such a lack. It is useful to meeting my goal for the year, but it still can be rather distracting.