Inspiration Overload?!

Yzabel / November 29, 2005

I’d never thought I’d say that one day.

I believed the lack of inspiration was the worst thing in the world. That when it hit, it was a catastrophe. Well, I’ve just found out that the contrary can just be as problematic; there are only 24 hours in a day, and my chronic lack of focus really becomes a hassle in this case. (I can’t focus well nor for long, really. I hide it well, but I can’t.)

I’m currently in the throes of inspiration overload. Too many things going on in my head, too many things I want to do, much more than what I can do, in fact. Ideas for short stories are bursting out of my mind every ten minutes, and when it’s not for stories, it’s for illustrations. I can’t focus on work well, I can’t focus on finishing my novel, since five minutes into my writing, I already feel like doing something else, not out of lack of inspiration, but out of wanting to concretize other thoughts.

In itself, it’s not a bad thing.In the facts, I don’t accomplish much, for spreading myself into too many directions all at once isn’t very efficient.I got told to “take it easy” for a few days, but this won’t make the ideas go away, and I’m afraid that “taking it easy” will end up being an excuse to procrastinate.

Sometimes I wonder if it’s such a good thing to be mildly talented in more than one area (I hope I can consider my writing and illustrations as somewhat decent, that is). When I have material to practice them all at the same moment, it feels like my head is going to explode, like a steam machine under too much pressure, and I get nothing done in the end.

Perhaps I can help myself focus on my writing again by actually drawing about characters/situations. It has worked in the past, after all.

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Comments

  • Pat Kirby

    Storyboarding my characters does help…except I sometimes get so involved in the drawings, it sucks away all the time I could be writing.I developed a overwhelming desire to work on my other novel project, a desire in conflict with my goal of finishing the current project.And…I wanna do some drawing.I hear you. Totally.

  • Heather

    This sounds familiar… happened to me my freshman year in college. Turned out to the be the manic phase of bipolar. =} Hopefully it’s just a happy case of having a wealth of ideas in your case! Good luck settling down and concentrating.

  • Deborah

    I’ve been dealing with this off and on all year. So much to write, so little time. What I do is jot down the ideas when they come, giving them as much detail as I can so I will remember them when I get the time.

  • Benjamin Solah

    I’m in this stage too. Got over a bad case of writer’s block, due to nano-burnout, and now my head is about to explode :DReceiving my own book in the mail does little to help this 😉

  • Yzabel

    Good that I’m not the only one to experience this, now I feel less like the whiny sissy who should just shut up and embrace the overload because “at least it’s inspiration” :)I’ll be noting down the ideas with more detailing, this sounds like a good thing, and this way I’ll have material to work on the day the lack of inspiration strikes again.And I hope it’s not the manic phase of bipolar, I have enough to chew on as it is!

  • melly

    No, you’re definitely not alone on this one!Sometimes I wonder if it’s just a way of avoiding the ‘annoying’ stuff that needs to be done towads the end of a novel…

  • Yzabel

    Melly, that’s a possibility as well. I doubt that crapping out HTML code in text files for two days is more interesting than working on the ending of my novel, though, so I’m not sure (if it’s the case) if I’ve chosen the right activity to avoid the ‘annoying stuff’ 😉

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