{{This troper}} has mad ideas like hell. They all either got one banned or got turned in to a short school project and sadly translated to French, thus killing my idea and the coolness of the name THE SHADOW FACTIONS, and I plan on reusing the story next year (made to support the sequel better) (and make certain it's for english class) and I have a ton of spare time too, but... the .... an...anime ...i-iss sooo.....good...

In English, please.

ThisTroper knits. And has three unfinished gloves/socks for every one that has a mate. It doesn't help that she always knits the right side first...

{{This troper}} has {{webcomic}} and machinima ideas pop into his head a lot. He hasn't made the {{webcomic}} idea he liked the most (yet), which takes place in an altered HalfLife 2 universe. What alters it? John-117 and Cortana crash down into the little scrapyard where Gordon first gets the Gravity Gun when Gordon first gets the [=GGun=]. The ending of [=HL2=] would be the most altered, because Chief would sneak in and shoot Breen and the Combine Solider, which would change alot of things. Alot of times I get short machinima ideas, which I forget or decide are to short. However, recently, I've made 2 of them, Machinima/WaitForIt and Machinima/Frenzy. Now I am working on a a larger machinima that is made up of unrelated machinimas I've made. Did I mention I should be working on that right now? I'm also supposed to be making new versions of NightOfTheLivingDead, including The Inappropriately Timed Laugh Track Edition.

This troper, an aspiring writer, had this problem. In the end, the solution was to look at all the stories, dump the ones that weren't so good/stalled as soon as they got out the door, put the 3 or 4 mildly good/awesome but hard-to-do ideas on the backburner, and choose 2 or 3 easy-but-interesting ones to focus on. (Yes, this is banter, but it technically counts as a RealLife and TruthInTelevision example, plus anyone with this problem should read this if they need some help getting thinks back on track.

This troper currently has ideas going through his head for a series of science fiction novels and a trilogy of completely unrelated sci-fi novels as well. He's also doing two forum [=RPs=] and working on a third, as well as doing several MUGEN characters at the same time. Yeah... big problem with finishing what he started.

Update: Three short stories I'm trying to do. Fun...

This troper has twenty-seven fanfictions that didn't make it past chapter 3, twelve half-finished short stories, a non-fiction book with only the introduction done, four fantasy novels with only 13-14 pages done, two and a half pages of a manga, and a partridge in a pear tree.

This troper has about 50 unfinished scripts on his HD. And a novel in 250 chapters of which only 9 are completed. And several dozen things he'd like to have on his homepage. And several(!) unfinished {{Tabletop RPG}}s. And an idea for an epic comic. And an RTS computer game. And he'd like to do more stuff on TVT...

This troper actually has ADHD, and has had a multitude of ideas for comics, but somehow has failed to execute any of them. All of his characters from unfinished and unstarted comics hang out at a bar and taunt him.

Common knowledge would point out that having ADD/ADHD and a creative bent all but guarantees ADCD. This Troper personally has somewhere between fifty and seventy characters waiting for their stories to get beyond the prologue and, in a few case, the initial plot bunny. Now apply AllTheMyriadWays to those characters and their lives... There's a good hundred forty or so non-fanfic stories for me to write right there, and let's NOT get into the fanfics...

Does Asperger's do the same thing? That would explain so very much...

This troper, another aspiring writer, currently has three projects on the go. Not ''ideas'', not ''pieces'', but big projects. One is a 3+ series of military space opera novels; one is a 50+ anthology of serialised superhero short stories, written with a mind towards audio adaptation; and one is a 4+ series of steampunk/urban fantasy screenplays. Some pretty *** decent progress has been made on all three projects, but considering this troper's tendency towards getting things ''just perfect'', he'll probably keep working and tinkering until he finishes them all at once circa 2025.

In the category of forum [=RPs=] alone, this troper has five in self-inflicted DevelopmentHell, two that've been shelved pending massive overhauls (only one of which she still plans to continue, the other likely to be incorporated into newer settings), and a handful of ideas that haven't had much done with them. Like a previous troper, she actually does have ADHD.

This Troper has a similar problem of Forum [=RPs=], though mostly due to his personal motivational/apathy issues. He has one RP which has come grinding to a halt and probably wont go anywhere until he resumes updating it, three closed down for overhauls (Two for complete ones, and another that just needs an actual story) and another three which are in DevelopmentHell. Of course, this troper's nature is to have sudden bursts of work ethic and then periods of "Meh, who gives a crap" (Guess where I'm at now.), most of it will probably get some manner of done sometime.

This troper has many unfinished one-shots and story ideas she's come up with over the years. She's realized that part of the problem is that she'll come up with Plot Point A, then Plot Point B, and then either not think about how to get from one to the other or not even think about the creation of Plot Point C (or even a combination of the two). Fortunately, there are some ideas she's glad she never followed through on.

This troper tries very, very hard to send out quality updates for multi-chaptered fan fiction in a timely manner, as a means of practice for deadlines in her future writing career. Usually, 'timely' is the one that gives out, which is why she decided not to write any more multi-chapters and just focus on the five or so she already has.

Sob, where does this troper ''begin''. Over a dozen webcomic ideas, at least eight ideas for novels, and more ideas for fanfics than he can ''count''. And that's just for starters...

Holy shit, there's a name for this? For years, this troper was afraid she was losing her sanity. It's particularly hazardous as one of the writing exercises I take part in is roleplaying online, where logically people expect you to reply to threads you started somewhere within the week. Not six months later.

The same troper has serious issues with an overflow of ideas. If I have an idea, I ''must'' start a project for it, or lose the idea. It's fine when these are little plot sketches or drabbles or poems, because I almost always have a notebook on hand. Unfortunately, I have to type longer pieces, and when I'm not in a state of mental block, well, when it rains it pours. I'll write two 600-word segments of a KinkMeme piece, slaving over each for a week or two, then abandon it. Then come back a month or so later, realise that two people have read my piece and want more, then write six more pieces in three hours. Deadlines seem to really screw me up. (This is ''while'' juggling ten roleplaying characters on three different boards, four or five one-on-one roleplays, and any free-floating ideas that come to mind.)

This troper is not necessarily ADHD, but she definitely drops/creates stories at a moment's notice. Right now she's working on at least four works of fanfiction, an original fantasy novel, her autobiography, a dramatic slice-of-life movie script, and repairing/starting two cosplays.

This troper...y'know what? Just see above.

This troper literally thinks up a brand new epic story idea at least twice a week, and an idea for an in-progress story every night. In excitement, she writes them down, falls asleep, wakes up the next morning, then reads them and tries to count how many caffeinated beverages caused it. (At last count, three. Apparently, staying up until four AM makes me a bit loopy. It's 2:30 AM now, by the way.)

This troper has, for several years in a roll, the New Year resolution of working on my novel. It doesn't help that ideas come and go, and this troper is obsessively rewriting his story to perfection.

I have ''way'' to many story ideas for my own good. I'm just gonna finish Stick Battles before I start anything else.

This troper is this. So much.

This troper has never finished a chaptered story. Ever. This troper also has somewhere between ten and twenty stories going at the moment, and will only work on one or two at a time.

This troper has suffered from this for as long as he can remember. Recently, he found a solution: combine them into one story. For example, he once had an idea about aliens who lived on a planet that exploded and became the Solar System, and another which took Shakespearean characters and plots, and dumped them into a Desert Punk world, and then of course he decided he wanted to do a Gundam homage. This resulted in the creation of a webcomic which involves ancient aliens, HumongousMecha, and Shakespearean characters. This troper really enjoys just relaxing and working on the comic.

Multiple Tropers would like a link.

This troper has about five pieces of fanfic, three or four original pieces of fiction, a satirical tutorial he wants to revamp, three more to write, and a novel hanging over his head. Please note that he conceived the novel during the summer of 2001. He is writing this in January 2009. And that's not even counting all the art pieces he has sketches lying around for. And the email folder labelled "idea bank", which has cool ideas he wants to do later. It has twenty-two items as of right now, and I have a dozen or so more I have yet to add.

Right, well I've had a webcomic idea for eleven months now, and all I have to show for it are a dozen or so pages of scripts, plus assorted notes for at least four ''other'' ideas. Unfortunately, I also have ridiculously high expectations of myself. Oh, and I don't even have ADHD as an excuse, ''and'' I want to be a comics artist as a job.

I've got this. In Spades. And Shovels. Off-the-top-of-my-head there are: three webcomic ideas, half-a-dozen projects for differing media, five novels that only go as far as three chapters, one thousand unfinished profiles, an online adventure fiction magazine, an entire revamped fan-fiction universe, and an original fictional universe where fantasy, mythology, sci-fi, and super-heroes share. Then again, I'm lazier than a sloth.

This page just reminded this troper of the two computer games, three comics and two novels she hasn't totally given up on yet that she needs to finish. The other folder of novel outlines can wait, the concepts need work anyway.

You can count on one hand the number of times this Troper has actually finished anything she's ever tried to write. Starting, however, is much too easy...

This troper probably has some popularity with her stories, but never, ever manages to finish them. Ideas run out, or she's just too lazy to transcript anything. Worst part: She ''wants'' to be a comic author (not really mangaka, as she doesn't live in Japan).

This troper, a musician, has over one hundred collected riffs, solos, and almost-finished songs that he's never gotten around to actually completing. Being a rather creative person in general, he also has as ideas for at least three different novels, one of which is only the first novel in a steampunk fantasy epic, a Harry Potter fanfic that is years overdue (takes place after OOTP and ignores the last two books; not much point in working on it now), a half-finished campaign setting for D&D 3.5 that he promised his friends he'd finish in September of 2008, and in the last few days, he's begun working out a Dresdenverse campaign using {{GURPS}}. He's also waiting to hear if he got into graduate school and looking for a job, between marathon sessions of Fallout 3.

This troper has:

6 fanfiction ideas (3 of which are on semi-permanent haitus)

4 original novel ideas

a slapstick {{Yonkoma}} series she'd like to do (but doesn't have enough manga drawing skills to do so)

a book on how to learn Japanese

Numerous things to put on her ipod

All while doing homework, going to school, and just plain being lazy.

This troper had so much on the go at some point that he put down adding himself to this entry for about 5 months. "So much" being a Dungeons and Dragons 4e campaign for general free release, a separate D&D4e campaign setting, a half-finished dark fantasy novel, another fantasy novel restarted several times, 2 military sci-fi novels, and a near-future cyberpunk/fantasy story. Oh, and 3 separate tabletop RPG campaigns to participate in.

This troper comes up with a new idea about every 3 days, but cannot draw and is too lazy to write half of the time. Luckily This Editor has started jotting down notes of these ideas to keep them in check.

Rather handily describes me, although I've managed to stick somewhat with a project of late (Magical Girl series with a note toward the shonen style, kinda like Lyrical Nanoha), although the actual characters in that are in a MAJOR case of "Schrodinger's Cat". Up until the EXACT moment they enter, their personality, powers, and sometimes even appearances change weekly. Fortunately, I've managed to pull myself away from derailing any of them, but... There's always the temptation!

This troper is working on 2 projects, one is a 7 book fantasy series in the vain of Narina and the Maybird books, the other is a paranormal fiction book in thats kinda like an Moulin Rouge and corpse bride had a mutant baby.

This troper has this thing that he calls "Writer's Bottleneck", which is too many ideas coming at once to be conveyed to keyboard. The annoying thin is, as he's working on one idea, he thinks thinks up several things to use and pares away what isnt' appropriate. Instead of discarding these unused snippets, he decides to add them to his other projects. It got so bad, that he also almost found a way to UNITE the stories, even though one was Science Fiction, another was Fantasy, and the third was Series/DoctorWho fanfiction.

This troper has a lot of good ideas for games and other stuff. I think of most of them when idle or bored. Unlike others however, I keep these ideas online. You can see them here if you so want, along with a few of my friend's stuff. Another friend (who doesn't write stuff there) thought of the name.

This troper has been working on a walkthrough for a while, and also on an unofficial "fangame" for a series (guess which one). So far, this has happened to both of them. And to ideas for a webcomic, and ideas for a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover fanfic starting with Ranma becoming a Sailor Scout, and progressing to Ranma and quite a few people from other series playing actors cast for parts in ''TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya''; Dracula and Cthulhu would appear, among others. Here's hoping that that changes... eventually.

About that walkthrough, here's one of the lines from it: "I'd pay to see: Dracula vs. Haruhi Suzumiya.

This troper has ADHD. It shows. He has, as of this writing, a nine-part fantasy epic, a series of steampunk/fantasy short stories, a great idea for a TV series involving conspiracy theories and screwball comedy, a video game plot, something about the aftermath of an alien invasion (wherein AmericaSavesTheDay is ''brutally'' subverted), another something about an island with dinosaurs on it that is somehow not a JurassicPark ripoff, a deconstruction of LordOfTheRings, and an outline for a webcomic. None of these are written down, although that is about to change.

This troper is involved in three different RP style chat rooms. In one he has a half finished character that he began work on a few months ago and hasn't returned to it to write the character's history. The other two he has ideas for more characters for the rooms but has so far has done nothing to start them.

I have a great idea for a webcomic. The best idea I think I have ever had since, unlike all other ideas for books/comics I have had, this one does not seem exceedingly stupid after a day or two. But aside from an outdated synopsis, and a few sketches, he has achieved nothing over the four months from its conception to right now. At 3:35 AM.

This troper has one novel in progress, a Nanowrimo book to edit, a project started two years ago (but always saying I'll get back to it)...not including the various short stories and novel outlines written during the regular projects. This does not include the abandoned project starts in a number of notebooks.

This troper recently dug out a half-written story he started over two years ago. He also has a cycle of fantasy stories on his mind, but it's pretty doubtful he'll be arsed to write them soon.

This troper has about 50 nearly finished, half finished, or not finished at all maps for Source games, one game that he and one other will never get done, random sprites for a game he had an idea for once, and so many unfinished art works. Not to mention planned mods, songs, and remixes.

This troper's main problem with writing ''anything'' is that as soon as he runs out of (bad) ideas, he shelves whatever he was working on until the next year. Fortunately, he has no fans, so doesn't need to worry.

This troper has begun several stories in various fantasy/sci-fi/sci-fantasy settings wich didn't get to much over 18 pages and the start of the real action.

@/{{Raekuul}} works on stuff when he feels like it. For example, we have the following projects that have something web-postable about them: Necromancer Wars, Ikuko and Serenity, Captain Ersatz, Season Shaman, Ithryn Luin, Taghexe, Unnamed Crossover, Angels in Time, Pokemon Dariath... and those are just stuff where I can post something on the internet and say "I have done some work on this, it's not total vaporware!"

@/{{Dragnew}} has a folder containing 20 Machinima scripts on his Memory Stick. About half are unfinished, and the rest remain unmade (for now)

This Troper has at least twenty seven story ideas and ten unfinished stories, much to the annoyance of her (nonexistant) fans.

It is this troper's JOB to function in this way. As a Professional Lighting Designer, he would average one (play/musical/dance/opera/etc.) every two weeks. There was one time in college, however, where in the space of three weeks, he was:

The Master Electrician on a series of opera scenes

Spotlight Operator on a play

Lighting Designer and Projection Designer on another play

Light Board Operator on a dance concert.

The GM who ran this troper's previous RPG only ran that one project, but could never work on any one part for more than 30 min. 20 min weapon sketches, 15 min map-drawing, 25 min writing down adventure ideas... He described the condition as GMADHD.

This Troper is very, very guilty of this. She has some great ideas for stories, but hits brick walls. Currently, she has four novel ideas and God only knows how many fanfics going. It's to the point where she doesn't want to show anybody anything she is working on because she is never going to finish anything.

[=ToRi=] The Eyrie: Burning Phantom, the sixth installment of my crossover series. I forgot to write the last chapter of it because I signed up here. TV TROPES WILL POSTPONE YOUR FANFICS.

Happens to this troper all the time. "Oh, this is a cool idea for a story! Now let's try and think of how to start it... Oh, hey, here's another neat idea! Now what am I going to with this one?" times infinity.

This troper currently has six stories she's planning on working on (one of which is also a six-story series).

This troper is SO glad to know that she's not the only one with this problem. She's got about six half-finished fanfics on her computer and has a lot more plot ideas bombarding her than that. Currently, she's ''trying'' to stick to ''one'' fanfic and finishing it all the way through before working on the next one. The fic exchanges she's signed up for (with specific deadlines and the inherent shame that comes from overstepping them) might also help her with overcoming her disorder. Hopefully.

@/AllanAokage has this problem. It's mostly figuring out which of this ideas are worth pursuing, but he can safely say that if he wrote down all of his ideas, he'd be able to fill several novels full of fantasy stories.

This troper is practically this trope incarnated (minus the fame). She is working on her own webcomic, but never gets further than the third page before starting something else, then something else, then something else. She has scrapped many of her older ideas, though the problem still remains, and not just with comics. She has started at the least five different drawing projects the never continued past the first submission before her attention was pulled elsewhere or all inspiration to finish it shriveled up into dust and blew away.

This troper is an aspiring writer and will frequently come up with an idea, then, while writing that story, will become distracted by another idea. I am currently writing I-don't-know-how-many-stories at once.

Oh my god, I cannot count the number of times this has happened. Ever since 8th grade every DAMNED WEEK I get a new idea. Scrap any old ideas for it. Next week, repeat. This continues to this day. Luckily, I do have a major comic planned for myself I've been tweaking for the better of 2 damned years.

This Troper was once in a relationship base around ADCD. It was his most succesfull after the current one. They parted amicably. They still start collaborating and never finish on things.

This troper tends to come up with a lot of awesome ideas for a story, but tends to not act on them to prevent this trope from happening.

This Troper is preparing for a Sheik cosplay, writing a novel that requires a lot of research (because of the location it takes place in), trying to write a manga, and has four FanFics that aren't finished yet, two of which are still being updated on a semi-regular basis.

This Troper has an idea for a novel and already has somewhere between 15 - 20 pages of said novel written........now she just has to get off her lazy, Attention Deficit Disordered arse and write the rest.

This Troper has been writing a novel for 2 years. Every time he gets back to it he ends up writing a paragraph and then makes no progress for a long time. It doesn't help that the part he completed wasn't long enough to be considered a real novel, so he now has to tack the sequel on as a part 2. At this rate the novel (which still doesn't even have a temporary title) will be done sometime before this troper's 100th birthday (maybe).

The guy who posted above also has 2 Fanfics he hasn't made any progress on in forever (one in over a year and the other he updated recently but probably won't make more progress for a while).

This troper has drawn and written fiction since he was 10, taken photos professionally and as a hobby for a few years, played bass since 2006, and has been learning to DJ for about a year. ...All while going to school for architecture and working a job to stay afloat, with a radio internship he's contractually obligated to on weekends. He's trying to avoid overload by letting go of his aspirations in drawing and writing, (which weren't that good anyway) and choosing between his remaining hobbies based on what he feels like at the moment. In music and photography, he also simplified things by dumping everything he was working on into one folder on his computer and gave up on distinguishing between projects.

Like a troper near the top of this list, this troper is also diagnosed ADHD (Primarily Inattentive Type) and had this problem since age 11 or so for both fanfiction and non-fanfiction. On one hand, some plotlines were discontinued because they've been done way too much and I was getting better at writing characters. On the other hand, none of the stories I start ever get finished. It's a rather vexing cycle.

This Troper (who is quite likely ADD/apathetic as a result of being manic/depressive, respectively) has many, ''many'' stories and worlds that he designed but never got around to writing beyond the first few chapters (or even first few ''paragraphs'', more commonly), tends to keep a bunch of stores and personal research projects (a dwarfish dictionary for ''{{Discworld}}'' comes to mind) open in text files (and if he forgets to save them, or even forgets which ones were open when the computer crashes or the battery runs down, too bad), has three cosplay costumes not quite finished (one of which is perfectly wearable but just needs structural stitching, one of which needs the sleeves hemmed [a justifiable wait since he doesn't have a serger] and the last garment assembled, and one of which requires him frickin' ''remembering'' to look up how to make a reversible seam), ''forgot'' about an in-depth continuity-bridge he'd been working on for the .Hack// universe for many, ''many'' months (thanks to college finals taking up his free time for a while), and

This Troper (I would have liked to identify myself, but I guess I haven't quite gotten the length of link formatting...) has such an active imagination that he's been coming up with an endless series of different story concepts for the past 10-15 years (he is 19 as of this writing) and never really produced anything solid from any of them. It really started in earnest with Redwall fanfics (one of which ''was'' actually written in school...nobody really understood it) at around age 10, hit a period of stability with his 2006-2009 participation in NationStates, and continues to this day. He currently comes up with a full-fledged new idea every few months and new components of established ideas every week or two. His big current project is [=~Roland's War~=], his WorldMadeByHand fanfics/sequel, which was started as a broad concept layout, then became an attempted novel set 5 or so years after the book, which was abandoned for a feature-length film script set 3 years after ''that'', which was abandoned a few weeks ago as of this writing for another script set 6 years after the first. See what I mean?

This troper will start a story and, while writing it, become distracted with either another idea or something else. Because of this, his stories will be finished months after he intended.

I have to work on things when I'm excited about them or I'll never finish them. Including but not limited to drawings, stories/fanfic, and organizing the family library. (I did the latter in two days because I knew if I didn't, it wouldn't get done.)

This Troper is very, very guilty. Two stories needing updating, a series needing the next installments, and you don't want to know how many stories are in the works, both fanfic and original creations. I will finish one by the end of the year, I hope. Being a full-time college student does have its drawbacks...

@/{{Thnikkafan}} has this. So far, he has a ''{{Seinfeld}}'' / ''AzumangaDaioh'' CrackFic, an ''AzumangaDaioh'' FutureFic, a ''AzumangaDaioh'' / ''LuckyStar'' / ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'' MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, a ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi''-based {{deconstruction}} of the SelfInsertFic, and a ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'' / ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' {{Crossover}}. of them have gotten past a chapter. The only one with any progress made on it at all is the ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'' / ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' crossover fanfic.

@/{{Ryumaru}}: Let's see... at least three novels I've put at least thrity pages' worth of work into, one of which I'm really actually still working on (with spinoff short story ideas on paper), several ideas for movies, even more for video games, and two comics, one defunct and one petering out. Yep, I'd say I'm set.

This troper's brother fits this quite nicely. Animated series (two of them), Online Game Private Server managing, writing a book, and Photoshop art!

During my first few years of drawing and sketching, I must have made a hundred fan characters. They'd be lucky to last longer than the sketchpad. Now I stick to a very small window of characters (i.e., about four or five), but I occasionally make new ones. Unfortunately, especially for the decent ones, they don't last very long either.

This Troper. Full stop. My attempts at Nanowrimo and Script Frenzy have produced about three to four major projects. Three of them are modern action / HeroicBloodshed pieces which still haven't been finished, and the fourth is my SwordAndSorcery / LowFantasy saga centered around a character that's been in my head for close to nine years, which I'm STILL trying to write. And that's without mentioning the various other projects that are little more than headspace and scattered notes on my HD.

I am this trope. I have between 10-13 original story ideas...and that's not including my fanfic opus.

Me. Not only do I have a sizable word document on my computer full of story ideas I apply this in the worst way possible to a manga style comic I draw. Updates go from weekly to daily to monthly and I have a tenancy to throw in anything which catches my interest be a trope, a scene or bit of character development from another story or even an entirely new art style. Thus it has huge consistancy problems in all areas (something you ''do not'' want for a MythArc) . Before the long awaited webcomic release I plan to appoint a well armed team of editors to keep me in line at all costs.

I am a borderline case, having several story ideas in the pipeline but continueing to focus on the one I started first. However, I seem to have picked up a habit of coming up with and writing down details for my 'verse that no-one else will never see unless my book actually sells at all and I get to write a sequel (which, let's face it, probably isn't going to happen.)

14 FanFic's, 3 partial novels, one serious novel. The serious novel is at current the longest, a total of 18 pages with an inconsistant backstory/ information dump covering another 5 or six pages.

This Troper isn't prolific or well-known, but he is like this, badly. He participates in a wrestling e-federation, and was writing a novelization of MegaManLegends 2. Then he heard the music of TheMegas and decided to start a short story collection based on ''Get Equipped''. Yeah.

This troper currently writes this daily webcomic while trying to write the GrandFinale to his old webcomic, is attempting to work out ideas for two or three possible ''new'' webcomics to do after the aforementioned finale, is attempting to do several contributions to MushroomKingdomFusion, is in the early stages of making an IWannaBeTheGuy FanSequel, and occasionally dabbles in RPGMaker and {{ROM Hack}}ing. Sadly, only the very first thing mentioned tends to get done with any reliability.

This Troper has, currently, 4 series of fanfictions (each with a minimum of two fics in it, all currently in-progress and uncompleted) being worked on, two or three more fics which are on haiatus, about twelve fics that are standalones/drabbles that are still unfinished, about a gazillion pages of character profiles and lists of tropes applied to original characters, five fics and a historical fiction novel being BETA'd by her, half a jillion sketches being transferred into digital art via Corel Painter 11, and pages upon pages of information about Expanded Universes, original vampires, mer-creatures, and other supernatural creatures such as naga. She planned on making a list of every refferrence to TamoraPierce, {{Anime}}, and random stuff found on the internet or her family's quirkiness, but decided that wasting another 100+ pages on such a list would be a futile gesture and a massive waste of time.

So far, only one fic she has ever written has actually been completed to her satisfaction. Just one.

This Troper is a semi-small writer on Deviantart who is currently working on ''four'' stories at once, constant schedule slips are no surprise to his few fans, first he started working on a story about a ghost girl who wanted to live again, then he started working on a story about a half-vampire character he created (Which currently takes presidence), then an experimental fanfic about SoulEater, and then ANOTHER story about the vampire character in an alternate universe, needless to say, dust is collected on a good number of these story from time to time, despite the fact he tries to keep writing them on a schedule. The fact he actually does have ADHD does ''not'' help.

Every project this troper starts has about a 5% chance of ever being finished. Stories, sewing projects (the other day, I finished a simple A-line skirt that I had started back in ''January''), even re-decorating my room.

This troper has been working on the opening chapter to his superhero trilogy for nearly three years. The reason why he does that is because he can think of about a bajillion and 11 different different other superhero stories he would like to write.

This troper has imagined a dystopic, theocratic version of his country since he was 15, adding subtlety to characters and even starting two sets of chapters of the increasingly complex novel intervowing all the concepts and characters. He's now 40. (He's written, however, at least three published stories based in the same universe, so not all is lost.)

This troper has had ideas for the following: Several books (I always start the first few pages, forget about it, look back at it one day, and think it's crap and promptly re-forget about it), a comic book (made one issue, started the second, never finished; it's nothing but a SonicTheHedgehog ripoff anyway), a video review show (which I currently have no time to do, nor a good video editing program, though I still plan on actually doing this; meta-example: I had the ideas for a review show where I review music-related stuff but mostly bad musicals, books, DisneyChannel movies, overanalyzing kids' shows, and reviewing pretty much whatever the hell I want), a webcomic, a machinima (really, just a music video for TheBeatles' "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" using ''SuperSmashBros Brawl''), starting a band (I blame my friends for not getting this one off the ground), an abstract drawing (!?), a book that parodies ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', making a {{Rifftrax}} (or the non-copyrighted equivalent--if nothing else, riffing on movies and posting these online), a website, a dictionary of made-up words, a quotebook, some ROM Hacks (I found I don't have the mad skillz to, though), incomplete songs (subverted in surprisingly many cases, as I often actually finish songs that I start, though I guess just a recording of me playing it just a guitar and my voice while sitting in my bedroom isn't exactly finished for quite a few...it works for some, not for others; I do have quite a few unfinished songs, though I don't finish most of those because they suck, and other times because I run out of ideas), YouTube Poops (Once long ago, about 2007-2009, I used to make [=YTPs=] all the time, though now I don't anymore for a myriad of reasons)... There's probably tons, ''tons'' more that I missed.

This Troper here is majorly guilty. I haven't written the ending to a {{Mai-HiME}} fanfic for about...eight months now and have started on another one. Continually changing what I've written and Real Life haven't helped.

This (unpublished SF/fantasy novelist) troper seldom has more than two (occasionally three) books in the works at once, but his little sister apparently routinely juggles five or six. Then again, we both ''actually have'' ADHD.

This is me to a T. I'm currently doing the writing for four webcomics, the art for three, trying to write a movie for me and my friend to make this Summer and a web sci-fi series. Even Lampshaded by my sister at one point when I came up with the sci-fi series. #QUOTE#Me: If I make a sci-fi webseries, will you play a villain. #QUOTE#Sis: Sure. #QUOTE#Me: ... You don't believe I'm going to finish it, huh? #QUOTE#Sis: Your track record speaks for itself, Em.

@/TheEvilOboist can usually just focus on one thing, her fantasy story DarthWiki/{{Canfyre}}. Anything else gets a few pages in and then dies. But lately, I've had the inspiration to work on my vampire story, DarthWiki/TheAspenValleyIncident. And now Canfyre seems to be getting the shaft... Luckily, making an DarthWiki/UnpublishedWorks page for it has gotten me back on track. Let's see if I can juggle the two.

Well, let's see... Three novels I've started on, one I'm definitely going to try to finish in the next year or so; at least ten or eleven fanfics, mostly romance, with several on the backburner indefinitely due to the dreaded writer's block; a comic strip about superheroes with hair-based powers; and an RPG three friends and I are working on that's still in the storyboard stage though the inventory system is a-go-go; probably some stuff I'm leaving out.

At time of writing, This Troper has ''five'' different fan-fics on the go, plus ideas for at least two more.

This Troper has mild ADHD that mostly manifests in never finishing (or even starting) anything. The deserted train station where her train of thought used to leave from is no plotbunny breeding grounds. And she can never finish anything longer than a onehot... and even most of her oneshots sit, dusty, in her hard drive... Except for when she hyperfocuses on a story... that only lasts about a month though (that's how she won NaNoWriMo!)

This Troper's bedroom is currently festooned with the unfinished remains of: a rug-hooking project, a very long scarf, an acrylic allegorical portrait of Queen Titania, and numerous world-building projects. His hard drive is even scarier.

I currently have one fanfic in progress, another fic with a more-or-less full summary to work from , ''10'' partially summarized fic ideas (with even more floating around in my quite unusual brain), and one huge story which I'm still not sure I should do as a comic or just a series of fanart with short stories in the descriptions (it's pretty much a visually-based story, you see). And then there's all the other fanart I want to do (both related to my fics and not) that I sketch out faster than I can scan and complete; as well as several FanVid concepts (some of which I fear I won't be able to put on YouTube anyway due to concerns about music copyright), {{MSTing}}s, and even a few YouTubePoop ideas. Add weekly open mic stand-up comedy to all that and you've got one creative but extremely distracted troper.

This troper only has to take a quick look around his room to see evidence of the multitude of projects he likes to think of as "in progress." Notable examples include several pieces of various N64s and their controllers, [=LCDs=], batteries, lengths of [=RG6=] coaxial cable, a couple of computer power supplies, a microcontroller programmer, logic analyzer, USB-to-[=TTL232=] cable, more than one DMM, and about 1900 armature relays.

This Troper has about a million unfinished Notebooks due to a tendency to start writing in them only to move onto to a new shiny one in a little while. In his current beloved Notebook, he has about a million different programming ideas and plans that match up with some half implemented stuff lying around on his computers etc. Same with his attempt at regular blogging, etc.... The only creative endeavor I've managed to keep is the fact I remain editor of a Faculty wide (Satirical) Paper on my campus.

I have about 20 stories I meant to finish, but never got more than a few pages.

This Troper has three projects on hand and about six on the back burner and/or abandoned. All three go under ThirdLineSomeWaiting with regard to production, and must be delicately micromanaged due to the sort of shit I do. The fact that I am perfectly content to not be writing things and instead throw out ten pages of fictional physics is also a problem.

This troper has 11 unfinished novels (and no finished ones). 1 of them (my 9th (called The Scream: it's a working title for now,as I hadn't intended to give it a name until just today)) is for a school project which just needs some minor editing. All the others have either been started and stopped due to lack of interest in them or delayed until inspiration comes. I've actually got a fantastic idea for a 12th one (and a 13th as well), but I think I'll wait until I've finished at least one of the other ones (not the project one) before I pick it up. For those wondering, my favourite one is the one for school, which is a gothic/sci-fi novella of four pages which took me TWO HOURS to write the first draft, including planning as I went along.

Actually, just remembered I've actually got 12, just forgot about the 12th as it is an sort-of sequal to my 1st one (which is actually five novellas), which I planned to start as soon as I finished the 1st one. I've also got an idea for another 5 novels in a series designed to involve some of the characters from the first and a new idea for a series involving the narrator from the 1st. Maybe I should write the ideas in a notebook...

I'm more or less the same as the rest of you them thar peoples here.

This Troper (@/IuraCivium) currently has the following, all unfinished:

Nine graphic novels/limited series comic books, only one of which even has a script started.

Two film scripts.

Four novels/novel series, only one of which has a completed initial draft, and needs much, much editing.

A bunch of unfinished flash fiction threads in various stages of completion.

One unfinished epic poem.

Don't ask this troper about the number of unfinished games and stories on her laptop. She doesn't really know how many they are, but there are some pretty good ideas amongst them.

This Troper has gotten much better about this. I still have a story that comprises of a bunch of different scenes that aren't connected.

I have TWELVE different fanfics, only one of which has been finished. It was a 200 word one-shot and I just barely managed to finish it before getting bored. I haven't even uploaded a new chapter of a story since August 2008. That's two years.I think I might just need to hold my own intervention...

This troper has many unbuilt and half-finished model car kits.

This troper has 18 published fanfics (published online, that is), three of which are unfinished multi-chapter stories. The rest are oneshots or short multi-chaps that have popped up suddenly and demanded to be written. The three unfinished stories are slowly being finished, between all the shorter fics, four more of which I have partially written. And that's not even considering the fact that those 18 stories are apart of a list of 58 potential story ideas.

This troper, who does have ADD, has been planning comics for years now. She's finished some outlines but has rarely finished more than two or three actual pages. Her most successful project was a trolling attempt in which she produced one page a day for over two weeks (and then quit in a bout of troll's remorse). She's now forcing herself to draw 20 pages of a comic by the end of September 2010 in hopes of getting the ADCD under control.

Update: It was a colossal failure. She now plans to write the whole damn thing as a novel during NaNoWriMo just so she doesn't have to think about it anymore.

I have an unfinished Quidditch playbook in my bedroom. I have no idea why I even started that.

Oh dear gods, I am so this trope. I've got at least three novel ideas that I started on but either didn't make it past the prologue or got distracted in the middle of fleshing out the world. And the fanfictions, oh gods, the fanfictions. On a lighter note, among my crocheting projects, I have only two unfinished ones.

This troper loves to write, and fidget, and muck about with comedy and whatnot, but his ADHD prevents him from putting out.. well anything. He could give examples, but.. he can't.

This troper has ideas for 10 stories. A series based on Series/DoctorWho. A series based on RedDwarf. An AffectionateParody of the superhero genre. A HarryPotter RPG TenYearsOn. A HarryPotter -esque story and a story based on {{6teen}}.

UGH, this troper is this to a T. She has about 13-14 ideas all on the back-burner, which she'd like to finish but she hates writing the beginning and then she finds another idea and goes for that and UGH. She also has a few fanfics she doubts she'll finish because she's just... that. She used to not be like this and had gotten two stories finished. However with new ideas, she's redoing them and they're not coming along so good...

This troper has a horrible case of this. She's currently working on trying to script several (read: she's stopped counting) comics, write around four or so novels, and make two games, one of which has over thirty paths. None of them have gotten very far off the ground, because she keeps getting distracted.

Much like everyone else on this ever-expanding list, This Troper is horribly afflicted with this. I could blame it on my ADD and my laziness, but it's something that's been frustrating me and hounding me for years after years and I'm tired of blaming myself. In the past couple months I've come up with a couple ideas in order to help me out in getting things done, and now Lord will only know how much they'll actually help:

1: Break things down into steps at a time. Don't think of it as "I need to write a novel", think of it as "I need to write an outline, I need to write character overviews, I need to write reference sheets to give me information", etc.

2: Get an "accountability partner" I'm close to in order to hold me to things. For example, if I want to write a story, for the first week have them tell me "Give me a finished idea by Friday", the next week say "Give me a finished Hero's Journey overview by Saturday", the next week say "Give me a finished outline by Sunday", the next week say "Give me a finished prologue by Wednesday", etc. Because I'm close to them, I won't want to let them down--especially if they're genuinely interested.

3: Start small. It's far too easy to get swept away into the vast seas of epic that is an idea, and it's even easier to start adding little bits and pieces on to it to make it better. But a finished product is better than an unfinished product that'll be so much cooler and bigger and more vast, and you can always edit it to include more after the fact.

And now...well. Time to give these steps a shot. Hopefully it works.

The graphic novel that this troper ''is going to actually sit down and make one of these days, I swear to God,'' has been in DevelopmentHell for ''years'', mostly due to him constantly redesigning the characters. He also has some schematics for a FightingGame, three half-finished MUGEN characters, and an RPG Maker game that he's been working on for a year and yet doesn't even have three hours of gameplay yet. And that's not even counting the many, ''many'' writing projects I've cancelled after the first few chapters.

Wow! I'm so glad I found this trope because it's so me! So far I've planned out two book series, one a trilogy the other a quartet, a handful of short stories, a script, and a webcomic series. So far I've only finished two of the short stories,and written down a few snippets of the others, and its been over ''three years.'' Jeez I suck.

This troper has ''so many pages'' on this site (currently in the DarthWiki/UnpublishedWorks section) because of this trope! My mind jumps from one scene or idea for one series to another at random.

I'm not sure wherever this counts as this trope or not, but back when I was an active user across {{Wikia}}, I became an admin on 3 wikis too many...

Well, where do I start? I have loads of half-finished drawings on my computer that I don't know if I'm going to finish anytime soon, even more ideas I haven't even drawn yet...

This Troper has a crapload of video game ideas. Only problem: He doesn't know CRAP about game making...

This troper is currently working on two novels, countless short stories and fanfics and a webcomic. Only the webcomic gets updated more or less regularly.

This troper has been writing fan fiction of various descriptions since about the middle of 2002. In that entire time four novel-length fics (the longest of which took FIVE YEARS to finish), the first two instalments of a trilogy, nine short stories and one article have been completed. In progress are five novel-length fics, only two of which are being worked on at any one time. She has also subjected herself to NaNoWriMo each and every year since 2003, and in all that time has only finished one of her NaNovels - the first one. Six of the remaining NaNovels have been abandoned, and the seventh is still being worked on intermittently. Additionally she has ideas for six further stories stored in her head, and is also working on an original fiction novel. Attention Deficit Creator Disorder is one hell of an apt description in this case...

This troper has been through 3 Pokemon RPs (one of which made it to about 35 chapters, the second to 4, the last to a just the prologue), a Bleach fanfic (currently on Chapter 3 and hiatused for 2 months as of this post), a few one-shots for various series and a Troll Fic that would've been a community project had he ever got round to assigning chapters to people. The Bleach fic may yet gain a fourth chapter since I actually wrote a sizable chunk of it before getting a ton of coursework, the Pokemon RPs died because the forums did (but I saved the prologue one, which basically involves a retelling of creation with Arceus replacing God and satirising various points in history, and I might potentially use it again if I ever write a full-blown Poke-fic) and the others are pretty much dead. I'm also working on an RPG in RPG Maker VX, which is currently untitled, copyright-infringing and nowhere near finished, and its first anniversary's coming up in Easter.

The Council of Evil is a project of mine for at least three full years. The first issues were disasters with writing, photographing, stories and character derailment. Since mid-2009 I am working on a reboot to rival other popular webcomics. It took one and a half to come up with a decent script. I will call how long it took, when finished.

This tropette currently has in progress: 1) a flash animated short, 2) a traditionally animated short, 3) an extremely involved fanfiction, 4) Creating a flash game; 5) a blog that analyzes subtexts and literary devices in pop culture, 6) is self-teaching a 3D animation software; all the while as a freshman in college. From talking to her friends in Film and Animation majors, she sees that it is somewhat of a norm for Visual Arts majors.

This troper has as many as four novels, three short stories, four fanfictions, a script and five drawings going on at one time, and that's not even counting the ones she's dropped. The only aversion of this trope is that she's not famous.

This Troper has been working on and off on three projects: a traditional fantasy story in a ConstructedWorld / MagicalLand, an UrbanFantasy set in the Greater Los Angeles Area, and a Narnia {{Fanfic}} to top it all off.

Whenever this troper gets an idea, he ''has'' to write it down, as a result this Troper has ''27'' Fanfics on his Fanfiction.net account (13 of Which are Bleach Related), And only 7 of them are marked as 'Complete'. And that's because 5 of those were One-Shots (4 Bleach crack fics and one terrible Yu-Gi-Oh Self Insert Fic) and the other 2 were cancelled (Two abysmal Sonic The Hedgehog Stories, one of which was a DBZ Crossover). It's not unusual for this troper to be working of ''5'' different fanfics at once.

Update: ''*sigh*''...28.

This Troper has a lot of these, though most of the older stuff is on permanent hiatus. But to date? Three non-hiatus chapter fics and one oneshot series in the Tudors fandom, two in Inception, and another Inception crossover on semi-hiatus (until the show it's being crossed with is on again this summer, to have more up-to-date characterization). Also trying to complete her seven-fandom crossover series, though lack of audience makes that a less attractive prospect anyway.

I currently have eight unfinished fanfictions going. I have a lot of ideas and a lot of them get me very excited to do them. At one point I tried waiting until I'd finished a few stories to start up a new one, but it just make me want to write the new stories more and try to finish the new ones quicker, which resulted in me not enjoying the writing. So I just start a new story if I'm excited about it. It's not that bad since only one story's really slipped through the cracks, and even that one has a new chapter partially written.

Two webcomics with a third about to start and a fourth in the planning stages, three unfinished fanfics, ten unfinished books, twelve unfinished comics, one doll, and about 200 characters, all of which require attention.

This troper can't seem to get back to work on two unfinished fanfics (one unpublished) or start two he has ideas for. He would like to get back on track, but he can't, he can't! He suspects it has something to do with his autism...

I have a dozen or so chapters for different fanfiction I refuse to post anywhere because I similarly refuse to believe they're any good. There's also been a bunch of webcomics and Let's Plays I've made and shortly afterward abandoned as well, though for different reasons (laziness for the comics, computer issues for the [=LPs=]).

This Troper. Oh gog this Troper. She has so many ideas but can't seem to stay on one! She just thought about an idea were a girl turns into Dinosaur Jowee. Yes, I'm weird that way.

This troper has a thing for getting ideas for various things - most commonly games - and then forgetting about them while working on something else, only to forget about -those- working on something -else,- only to... you get the point. He currently has under construction two console-style RPGs, four platformers, an FPS, a scroller-shooter, a freighter-load of unfinished writings and more stuff that he can't bother to try to remember at this point.