From: julie@pascal.org   
      
   On Friday, May 23, 2014 1:37:18 PM UTC-6, William Vetter wrote:   
   > A couple months ago, you had a thread that talked about the Wall.  I see   
   this as more or less the same issue, where the author begins a manuscript with   
   a lot of enthusiasm, reaches some point at maybe 20K words or so, feels he has   
   lost the suspense    
   momentum, wrote a couple scenes that can't hold readers, the dialog is talking   
   heads, whatever.  Then there is not what we call writer's block, where he is   
   unable to write anything; but he can only repeat the scenario with some other   
   story manuscript.   
      
   Yeah, there's that.   
   I have a bad case of Squirrel!!!  I mean, um, being distractable.   
   So the answer might be training myself to write very very fast, to get past   
   the point where, Oooooh, Shiny!  I mean, get as much possible done while the   
   enthusiasm for a new idea lasts.   
      
   But that's just part of it.   
      
   I have lots of half started projects and since I like most of them I probably   
   don't want to abandon them because they've got *something* compelling about   
   them, right?  And since the idea is to pick something and work on it until the   
   end... how do people    
   pick what to work on?   
      
   Because I know that writers usually have a gazillion ideas at any given time   
   and even people with no "Squirrel!" problem still have to pick and choose   
   between them and decide what to spend time on.   
      
   I was wondering if anyone had a method that was objective enough to hopefully   
   avoid the "Er, this story is a stinker, why am I not working on that other   
   one?" problem.   
      
   What sort of criteria do you go by?   
      
   -Julie   
      
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