Long or Short

For me, it has always been difficult to finish what I've started. This has applied to everything in life; hobbies, books, cleaning the room... Everything. Especially when it comes to writing stories.
I would always prefer to write short, one piece stories, since there's about a 70% chance that any longer project will be abandoned at any given moment after the original inspiration has worn off. The problem is that, quite often, the ideas I have would not fit in a single piece story, and the only option is to make it an 'on going', even if I dump it after a couple of pages. My computer is filled with unfinished stories.


This also means that every time I manage to continue a story I have started some time ago, it gives me just a little more pleasure than if I had just written something new and short. For example, I was getting worried that due to the current lack of time I wouldn't be able to continue 'Sparks to Flames' until I had lost the whole idea of the story. Today, however, as a reward for finishing a big project for school, I treated myself to writing a page or two to the story! No poems this time, though... I think there has been enough poems for a while. But this comes to show exactly that the fact that it has different forms of literature in one story works for me!
I even managed to think of a new part, or the name for it and what will be the idea in it. There's another one I have planned too, though, that I still haven't been able to actually write. It's supposed to be a list of the characteristics of Matthew, just your general character building.

I should never plan anything before writing. It's not a strategy that works for me at all. All I'm left with in those cases is the outline of the plot and a few first lines of the story, or few first paragraphs. This happened with the 'sequel' to 'Nothing Lasts Longer', and another bigger project I was working on. I had written it purely based on inspiration - although the idea of the end result and the general plot was decided before I even started it - but when I wrote down exactly what will happen, I never added another word to the file.
There's another bigger project as well, related to football and supernatural, which I have planned thoroughly from beginning to end, and to which I have only written the prologue and the first chapter (or maybe two).

Planning kills inspiration.