help me I have mental constipationI have like five fully fledged novels rattling up in there and I can't get them outI spend a couple of hours trying to shart out a treatment and I get out a thousand words and it's not enoughand then I go to sleep and I wake up and I have even more ideas
I had a similar but different time in life years ago: an endless flurry of ideas that ultimately end up in the toilet bowl. Daydreams can spill out onto the fields, but the fields need to be irrigated. Part of the solution is to use the compartment of your brain that looks back into the past, predicts the future and constructs plans: sort your ideas in order based on efficient causal logic. All of my ideas fit somewhere in a sort of mental flowchart, and all activity roughly conforms to a big function graph that deconsructs into many smaller ones. Be your own bookkeeper, write so you don't strain your memory unnecessarily. Start with actions that facilitate other actions. Consider the proximity of subject-matters, task difficulty, the connection between study and creation, external concerns and basic management.If you can have plenty of thoughts that satisfy your interest, you're probably already capable of having plans that connect them to reality. The third part, where I'm still developing is actually executing plans. You see the three tiers? You can't have thought and action without the handle, the structural handshake in between.
>>34579044okay but I'm talking about actual stories you need to build up actually doing things you can "just do", clean your room, clearly thank the bus driver, go pee instead of wondering whether or not you maybe feel like you have to pee
>>34579079I'm sharing my own experience: writing is a task that can be organized. You say you have overactive thoughts, you can also have overactive thoughts about organizing and sorting. I want to write many things, so I organize them in my head and partly, I record that organizational logic. You focus on the writing that is most pressing, and you can explain to yourself why it's most pressing and what other writing it connects to. Unfortunately, considering what is most relevant and following the north star of relevance can come at the expense of the endless idea-generation mind. If your stories are important to you, you have to crystallize them into coherent plans for execution.
>>34579154like in my mind palace foyer I take the left staircase and through the second door on the right I walk in on the hardcore tomboy undressing and see her pink frilly polka dot panties?
>>34578903llms suck at being creative but they're extremely good at planning and organizing. there are lots of good claude skills.md for outlining and laying out foreshadowing type stuff. you should do those and get the structure of the novel down and then when you know you have to write 1000 words and cover milestones x,y, and z it frees you to write in the moment, instead of trying to plan alongside having to write