Have Many Ideas?

Hey Everyone!

I hope you all had a great weekend and if you're on the East Coast (as I am), I hope you're doing ok with all that snow we got! My town in New Jersey received about 27 inches. Crazy! Roads are still full of snow everywhere so it's just a mess out there. Besides the mess, my dog DJ loves the snow! Check out pictures on my instagram (link is on the right side) from the aftermath. 

So while I'm sitting here on the computer, I thought hmm I wonder what people (writers) do when they have too many ideas on what to write at once? Especially since writers probably get a lot of ideas when they're unable to leave the house and do a lot of writing! I know I do.

At one point when I used to write YouTube & Fanfiction stories, my mind was full of different ideas. I remember at one moment, I had about five ideas going on at once. And even after I've finished writing on YouTube and Fanfiction those ideas turned into novel & scripts ideas. There's so much that I can write.

So how do you or should I say I decide to write with so many ideas?? 

Well, I have heard that there are many writers who, if they have a new idea to write about, have to write down immediately the new idea down. For me, ideas don't ever leave my thoughts until I have it completely finished. So what do I do when there's multiple ideas for multiple projects?

Here are the steps of what I do (and you can follow along or create your own steps):

1) Make a list of the multiple projects.

2) Create a bulleted list under each project about the different ideas I have for that specific project.

3) Look over the lists.

4) Which one has more bullet points?

5) Pick that one to focus on right now.

6) If I get stuck on that project, I look at my other project ideas.

7) If you're a great multitasker, you can work on multiple projects at one time (but remember your mind will be going back and forth repeatedly; as well might confuse one project over the other).

There are other steps that you can follow. But it's always good to write down every single idea you have in your mind. Because once you do pick one project over another, there is a chance you may forget the ideas you had for the other project (unlike me when it's all in my head at once). 

So basically the most important thing for you to do (when you have many ideas) - WRITE THEM DOWN. 

What do you do when you have so many ideas?? Comment below!

Until Next Time

CGoerlich <3