Yes indeed, I am a freak.

[EUOL]

Ah, the tortured life of a writer!  I just had a GREAT idea for a world setting and magic system.  It came in a single flash of creativity, but I'm only halfway done with the book I'm working on right now!  It's a good book, and I don't want to rush it.  Yet, at the same time, I've got the ever-standing itch to start something new.

Good thing I'm taking the summer off from school to write.  The thing is, I'm not even supposed to be working on my CURRENT project.  My editor thinks I'm revising WAY OF KINGS.  

Must...start...new...novel....  <twitch>

[Spriggan]

Must be genetic, why do you think I never finish anything....Besides the fact I'm lazy.

[EUOL]

See, you're a genius like me.  In fact, you're MORE of a genius--because your compulsions are so strong that you actually stop doing what you're working on, rather than finishing it.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I guess that's how it works. I've got two in my head bouncing about. One inspired by a "what if" moment while watching Return of the King (ask my wife, I actually managed to get her into the THEATER to see one of the trilogy and I spent half the film scribbling notes with a pen REFILL, i didn't even have a complete pen). The other inspired just this week while listening to lectures on Alex the Great (curse you Entropy for doign this to me). There are some BRILLIANT ideas coming from events in his life and the age he introduced.

[JP Dogberry]

Number of ideas for stories I've had recently:

About 5-8, I can't remember exactly. About 4 good ones.

Number of stories (all short) I've finished recently (So as not to count stuff I wrote in Primary school and similar: 2, working on one now.

Number of novels started: 2

Number of novel chapters written: About 5

Number of things I'm working on now: 6. One Novel, three Short Stories (all in the same world, so it doesn't really count) 1 novel (for fun) one I don't know what, I've written a page and I'll see where it goes.

It's not just you.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

well, it's not uncommon for creative types to have ideas all the time. It's when those ideas become overriding in their presence and demand attention rather than being content with being recorded and returned to at a more convenient time. I've had lots of ideas, but like EUOL, these two are trying to demand that I start writing them.

But then, JP appears to have the same problem as EUOL, Sprig, and I. We should form a support group.

[Mistress of Darkness]

See, you're a genius like me.  In fact, you're MORE of a genius--because your compulsions are so strong that you actually stop doing what you're working on, rather than finishing it.

/me laughs.
Or it's just a lack of self-discipline.

well, it's not uncommon for creative types to have ideas all the time. It's when those ideas become overriding in their presence and demand attention rather than being content with being recorded and returned to at a more convenient time. I've had lots of ideas, but like EUOL, these two are trying to demand that I start writing them.

But look at it as a blessing too. To have lots of new ideas continually spilling out, makes life as a writer easier than if you had no ideas at all.

My advice for the support group is to write down the ideas that you have and put them somewhere safe, and make yourself move on. You can go back to them later, no matter what the story ideas are whispering to you.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

I have the more inventive type ideas strike me more oft than the story idea.