I Feel Like I'm Going To Be Going Back And Forth Between So Many Ideas For The Next Week Or So - Tumblr Posts

Progress made so far on the Inklings Challenge:

Got very excited. Quickly reviewed my pre-made list of ideas for every prompt on every team I’d made before the teams were assigned. Go Team Lewis!

Felt a rare surge of sheer eagerness to write. Immediately jumped into writing one of my loose ideas with no planning whatsoever.

Quickly discovered that was a bad idea if I wanted to write something with any kind of structure. Returned to the drawing board.

Came up with three Slightly More Specific ideas.

Started writing one. Realized I’d forgotten to come up with a cohesive or interesting theme for it. Immediately no longer liked that idea and started daydreaming about one of the others.

(distracted boyfriend meme)

Decided the idea I was daydreaming about would end up being way over 3k and would be far more dramatic a tale than I was prepared to tackle.

Went back to my original plan of finally writing something for a few sci-fi characters I’ve had since I was a teenager and still have a soft spot for.

Remembered I know very little about the sci-fi genre and decided to re-categorize them as space fantasy characters. Felt much better writing for a genre that had ‘fantasy’ in the name.

Remembered that those characters and their entire world still need a huge overhaul. Briefly considered writing a Portal Fantasy story instead.

Spent a day not being able to think of a good Portal Fantasy idea. Belatedly realized that was not a very productive use of a day.

Remembered that writing short stories is a million times easier if I have a theme to refer back to in each scene. Decided on one I liked and started rewriting the previous space fantasy idea to center around it.

Kept thinking about Portal Fantasy. What if I’m missing my chance to write something cooler with it?

Resolved to try to write an update post whenever I‘m procrastinating. Maybe it’ll help keep track of my thought process?