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Whether creative restlessness signals the wrong form or wrong discipline

I have been trying to write a novel for five years but I keep getting distracted by short story ideas and I wonder if I am just not a novel person

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The inability to sustain extended focus may reflect either a mismatch with chosen forms or insufficient commitment to any single vision.

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“Where Are You with Fiction and storytelling — craft fundamentals?”

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