Futari wa aruki tsuzukeru, ato ni wa modorenai kara

I've written one scene since my last entry.

One. Scene.

What is wrong with me? I guess I've just been busy. I've got classes at the community college to worry about, after all. I had my midterm paper for English, my midterm for US History, and a minor test in Japanese to study for. I guess I just got... distracted.

And now I've gone off and gotten a completely new idea for a story, too. Don't get me wrong, it's not really a surprise; this has happened loads of times before. Usually I ignore it, try to stay focused on the story I have now, and it goes away. But the problem this time is, I really want to follow this one. Is it maybe possible to write two things at once? Maybe switch off when I start to get burned out on one project and then work on the other one for a while?

...No, I don't think that's going to work. I used to do that with books all the time. Sometimes I'd be reading like seven things at once, but it never really worked, since I'd keep getting distracted and stop reading some books because I'd forget the plot and eventually I'd end up only really reading one of them anyway because I couldn't even remember the names of the characters in the other ones. I'd get burned out on a story because I wasn't able to focus on it. I don't want that to happen in my writing... I think maybe it's best, for me personally, to just focus on one thing in particular and then move on to the next project after that's done. So I'll save this new story for another time... but I won't forget it. I've got the basic information written down, so it's not like it'll fade away like the other ones did. I can wait.

For now, I need to focus on The Last Alchemist, and after that, the second book in the series. And then maybe we can see about doing other things.