Short Stories - Suiting A Busy World

Writing short stories is one of my ‘go to’ activities - usually written after a lengthy period of procrastination. Bombarded with ideas, I try to note them down in my little black book, but some of the more brilliant ones, (memories are like dreams), have got away because I didn't.

I'd like to be one of those writers I envy. We all know and love them. They’re productive, they have willpower and meet deadlines, they’ve loads of fans, book sales and reviews, blogs, FB/Twitter/Instagram etc and have followers in their droves. Nevertheless, my aim was to get one novel and one collection of mixed shorts out a year. However, because I'm interested in so many other things, I'm thinking, maybe an annual novel/novella?

In my anthologies I try for around thirty tales. They're either longish shorts, really tight flash fiction of around 200 words, or poetry because the writing kept rhyming. So far, in addition to a few stories with other writers’ anthologies, I’ve published:

3 x Vicious Vignettes;

1 x Manna For Heaven;

1 x Echoes Across The Water (Indian fiction);

1 x She Dreamed Of Flash Fiction

Now that my 4th Vicious Vignettes is drafted and resting, I've realised I should have summarised all of the previous collections to avoid repetition. *$%! Why didn't I?

What I do know is, after one hundred and seventy(ish) you can’t recall them all.

Well, I can't. And I can't be alone in this, surely?