Ok, so one comment that I get a lot is about how many books I have on my Wattpad page and how many I am working on at once.
Let’s… just say that what is on my Wattpad page isn’t all that I have. Currently, I have 161 story titles on a document, and they range from not being started to being completed. This doesn’t include books that I am working on that will have a book or two or three after it. (To be honest, I don’t want to know that number because I am pretty sure that it’ll be around 200 story titles.)
As I stated in the title, having this many ideas is a curse, but it is also a blessing in some shape and form. It is a blessing in the sense that I won’t run out of ideas to present to people so that they can read them. I can give them content that will take them to faraway places and away from their normal daily lives, even if it is just for a little while. I can give them joy and happiness, which is something that I like doing. Or, I could crush their souls by doing something that they didn’t expect. Either way works for me.
However, this post isn’t talking about the blessing part of having so many story ideas. This is about the curse, and boy, let me tell ya, having so many story ideas is a killer. It can kill the creativity that the writer, me, has, and it can harm the motivation to write on the stories.
It sucks sometimes, and it is hard. It’s exhausting jumping back and forth between the stories that I have and the stories that I want to work on. It’s like I really want to work on this story, but… I have ideas on a different story that is a different genre from the one I am currently working on.
Instead, let’s work on that one, even though I promised to have a chapter out on that story.
I must admit, there are times when I don’t work on any story. I don’t want to update anything, nor do I want to open a document and let the words fall out. I want to be on Youtube and play my game because sometimes I am that mentally exhausted.
I hate it; I really do, but sometimes that is the way things are. I just have too many ideas in my head and am like a squirrel jumping from one story to another. I want to be completed on paper like I am in my mind because there are many times when I have the last scene played out, but I am not there in the story. I haven’t even started.
Sometimes paper or pen isn’t available to me, which is why I don’t write down these ideas, and they crowd my mind. Yes, I know, I do have a phone, but I am too lazy to find the document that has some scenes already written and write down these other scenes so that I wouldn’t forget.
It doesn’t help that I think of these stories at night when I am just about ready to fall asleep. I mean, can I have something through the day so that I can update? Is that possible?
For now, I think I am going to keep working on the 50 stories that I have and not add any more to the list. I want to; I really do, but I won’t. I will keep it where I am at, and hopefully, I can get these stories done before I die.
Thanks for reading. :)
~Rissa
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