I was just thinking: "Am I decided that this Richard story is going to be a book? Maybe it'll work better as a short story." Then I thought: "I really have no idea how this story will manifest itself. Hell, I might turn it into a play."
Immediately after thinking that, I thought: "Who cares how this story manifests? That's not something you have to think about right now. What you need to focus on is spending time with the characters and the story and when the story is where it needs to be, you'll know what it needs to be."
Practice. Reminder of practice. You're working a story, here. You're trying to get the details right. You're brainstorming.
Flesh out a story and then start writing it. If ends up being a book, cool. A short story, cool. A whatever, cool.
Work the story and it'll manifest itself how it wants to when it's ready.
Write the brainstorm.
Spend some time with the story and the characters.
Practice writing.
That's all you have to focus on.
Keep doing that. Everything else will come.
It's PRACTICE.
So, PRACTICE.
This is what you're doing.
Stop worrying about anything else.
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