I have a hard time staying focused on a single novel [closed]
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I am currently writing three different stories. I didn't start this on purpose, because I knew it would be very difficult to keep up, but I couldn't help it and kept getting different great ideas that would fit in different stories.
I've narrowed it down to three main stories that I've been working on. I want to narrow it to only one but I have a hard time choosing only one story to think about because I love them all. This is why I'm not able to finish one story because I keep jumping to the next ones.
What can I do to keep focused on one story at a time?
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I keep getting different great ideas that would fit in different stories.
You may jot down the idea when it occurs to you, along with a note about which story you'd like to add it to. Jotting something down doesn't take much time.
Resist the urge to figure out where in the other story it should go, and how to adjust things in the other story to accommodation the addition.
Then get back to your goal for the day (or the week, month, or whatever).
Set yourself a goal and a reward for meeting the goal.
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