Is there such thing as too many ideas?

Hello Everyone,
Recently I have been suffering from horrible writers block but it isn't for the reason many would think. Most people suffer from this affliction because they have run out of ideas. They have dried up the well of their imagination and are struggling to dig deeper and find a water source.
I seem to have the opposite problem. Recently there has been a flood into my imagination tank and it is now overflowing and drowning the plants of completed projects around it.
This shouldn't be an issue, right? Authors need ideas in order to write. But then there is the saying "too much of a good thing is too much of a good thing."
Too many ideas is too much of a good thing. I have so much chaos in my mind right now that I can't keep the project I am actually working on straight. Production has stalled as I try to write down summaries of all of my numerous ideas.
What are these ideas and why is this a problem you ask?
Here are just a few, a small fraction, of my issues.
1. Story of Camelot told from the prospective that King Author is just as evil, if not more evil, than Morgana. Yes; she's evil too. But when these two evil forces come together there's anger, horror, and amazing black magic.
2. Different take on Cleopatra. Also with her as the bad guy. (Although let's face it; she kind of was. She killed both of her brothers who also happened to be her husbands and then married the Caesar of Rome all so she could be Pharaoh, worshipped as a god. Not goddess. A god.) But this is going to come with an awesome paranormal twist. History talks about how she is actually descended from Greek heritage but there could be some African/ Egyptian in there too. In this case; the blood of the serpent goddess; Wadjet. Evil, horror, murder, and the blood of the gods bringing Cleopatra to power and Egypt to its end.
3. A take on Necromancers where a necromancer decides to experiment with someones life; seeing how many times he can kill them and bring them back to life as someone else before they completely lose who they originally were. A sick, twisted, cruel experiment.
4. The Vatican has been capturing demons and studying them not only to learn more about them but to stage exorcisms with trained demons to stay in power. Then one day they catch a guardian angel. The guardian angel of a girl they once forced a demon into to fake an exorcism. And this angel is ticked.
5. A dystopian world where there is a new scientific experiment going on in which a human's soul is removed, leaving them emotionless, painless, killers. Their job is to wipe out the old generation and raise and teach a new one with no fears and no boundaries.
6. A very dark take on genies. A Persian genie who is forced into the captivity of a Roman general. She has been a slave to people's whims for hundreds of years and starts to twist this general's wishes against him, slowly destroying his armies and his empire. She goes from person to person, turning their greatest dreams into their worst fears.

And this is just a little handful of what I have going on in my head. So problem one; none of them have anything to do with another. Problem two; I am supposed to be finishing the Vessel of Souls series but I can't focus on the third book with all of these ideas demanding my attention.
So my question is simply this; is there such thing as too many ideas?
Luck and Love,
SKN Hammerstone
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message 1: by Jackie - Fire & Ice Book Reviews (last edited Jul 19, 2013 04:32PM) (new)

Jackie - Fire & Ice Book Reviews I know exactly how you feel. I am currently writing a book, but I get sidetracked because I want to start something else. Let's be honest here, at the rate I'm going, my book will never get finished. I think it happens to the best of us! :-)


message 2: by [deleted user] (new)

I am starting to think that too. There are just so many things I want to write about but I don't have time and I can't run 30 different projects at the same time. I have to force myself to finish the final book in The Vessel of Souls series first. Then I need to pick one idea to work on because, as you can see, none of these ideas are related to each other at all so I can't do more than one.


message 3: by [deleted user] (new)

And then there's that whole internet thing where one thing leads to another, to another, to another, until you have no idea how you got to where you are.
I started out researching a type of demon for the third book and about half an hour later I found myself on a website talking about how Cleopatra could have been descended from Greeks which sparked the whole evil Cleopatra, snake goddess idea. And then I can't focus on what I was originally planning to do


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