Writer problems

Or, as I like to think of them, the-trouble-with-having-a-bucket-load-of-imagination. But 'writer problems' sounds a lot more classy, don't you think?

I love to write stories. I love the freedom it offers me, to experience magic, adventures, and love. What I don't love about it is being bogged down by just one story. So I write more than one at a time. And it usually works...For about three or four chapters. Then I go through long spells of writing short, useless scenes and putting off the initial story. I've been writing for about four years now and I'm ashamed to admit I've only finished five multi-chapter stories.

Actually, writing that down it looks pretty good. Five in four years - and that's amid GCSEs and A-Levels. Huh. Perhaps I've been selling myself short.

Then again, I've been writing the same two stories for three years now and neither has passed chapter six. One of them has even undergone several drastic plot changes. I guess the 'writer problem' isn't sticking with the stories at hand. It's finishing them.

My notebook: more plots than will ever be written.