Advice on Writing Issues.

[Zaudika]

So I'm frustrated. I love to write, I love to write erotic stories. A couple months ago I wrote a few that I've gotten a lot of great feedback on.

However, these last few months, I haven't been able to write worth a damn. Kind of. The thing is, I have about 10 stories now that are half completed. I get an idea, it's great, I get going on it, and about half way through the story.. everythings just gone. No ideas, words don't come out right, and I'm just lost.

Each time I get a new idea I start a new one beacuse I think maybe I'll actually get through an entire story, but each time the exact same thing happens.

Its driving me crazy, and I haven't been able to shake it.

Has anyone else gone through this, is there anything I do to help? I've had issues with not being able to write at all, but not with getting half done and then losing everything.

 

[gauchecritic]

I've never had a story that I went back to. If it petered out or the 'crossroads' appeared without anywhere I wanted to go then the story got scrapped.
When I sit down to write I have the entire story in my head ( I don't make notes or drafts or character backgrounds) If by chance I can go from A to B without meandering or taking side roads (which is very rare) then I can write my stories in a morning. Sometimes a character will take on a life of his own (which is probably a good thing in general) and I have to work the story around him/her but more often than not I still reach the conclusion I set off for.

I also only ever write one story at a time, any new ideas which won't fit into the story stay ideas.

It may be that you have too many irons in the fire.

Paul Heaton (Lead singer and lyricist of "The Beautiful South") writes lyrics as they come to him. When He's composing a song he is quite willing to mix two separate 'poems' in order to make a song. Perhaps that's what you could look at doing.

That's what I think, but I'm

Gauche