And that would be the sound of my head hitting a desk, repeatedly.  (Didn’t I, once upon a time, say this was going to be a professional journal?)

Regardless, I am frustrated with myself – Flighty and easily distracted, I don’t finish things (in this case, stories) even if I have them completely mapped out in my head.  Even if I already have the words ready to commit to paper.

It’s like my brain says “Oh cool!  That’s how the story works out.  Awesome, now what’s next?” and shoves it aside.

The only way I’ve found around this is to sit down and write it all at once, until it’s done.  Fine enough for short stories (and essays…) but anything longer than that, and good GOD man, I’d kill myself from starvation, but not before I started getting hallucinations from lack of sleep, just because I’d forget to do those tiresome things like eating and sleeping.

How do you writer types do it? (Likewise, how do you edit without wanting to destroy everything and start again?)