So yeah, this will be a place where I'll mostly post my thoughts on my writing project, which is going great. But it hasn't been simple.
I've found that writing is a harsh mistress, of sorts. At least the stories I engage myself in the actual writing process. I can't work on two major projects at the same time. At most I can a short story; anything bigger and I'll lose interest in it and find myself unable to finish it.
No, wait, that technically makes me the floaty, cheating, scumbag of a husband abandoning my wife for a disposable floozy. Erm, never mind.
The fact is, I can't focus on more than one major project without wanting to start another one, but I know that turning my back a short while on a story would make me eventually abandon it altogether, some I'd rather not do as well. The thing is, if another great idea come to you, then one is tempted to try writing two books at the same time. Currently I have a good idea for a children's fantasy novel; I think its a great idea, and I'm almost afraid that someone else might have thought of it as well and have (a) either written it before or (b) is going to write it within the next two months and invalidate my own attempt to write it. Since I've had bad luck before with Similar Ideas before I afraid of a repeat.
Considering the time and mind-numbing thought I've put into my current writing project I don't want to risk losing it all for a shorter novel. That's assuming I finish this novel at all, considering my bad track record with abandoning works for various reason (or losing them thanks to a hard drive wipin' virus) I fear that.
Off course this will make some of you wonder, why the heck do I bother at all with writing. Let's just say that it I'd probably go crazy if I don't write. I think Leo Tolstoy felt the same while he was writing War and Peace. He had no reasonable or rational reason to write, seeing he was a wealthy count, yet he finished writing it. All one-thousand five hundred small-print pages of it. And I don't think I'm a fraction as good as Leo Tolstoy. Yet I'm pounding away each day on my own novel because I really think I should.
Current status: 130 000 words (give or take 2000).
