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Don't look now, but it sounds to me like you're suspiciously active as a writer. Do you have any idea how hard it is for some people to come up with one idea? You seem plagued by an embarrassment of riches.

Two of Raymond Chandler's best novels, "Farewell My Lovely," and "The Big Sleep," each started life as multiple short stories that were unrelated. Eventually he cobbled them together, wrote additional supplemental passages and managed to seamlessly weave them into the classics they became.

If what you're saying is you're not following the rules by writing the way you write, I'd ask, "Whose rules?" If you need to start one idea before another better idea occurs to you, thank your Muse and don't ask too many questions. Every time you stop to analyze your process, you're taking time away from what you seem to do naturally, which is to write. A sentence here, a paragraph there, eventually you're going to be faced with some serious output.

Lucky you.

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"A screaming comes across the sky."
Gravity's Rainbow