Recapturing Project Enthusiasm

I love that feeling you get when you start a new project. There is the thrill of planning, organizing, and dreaming of the finished product. I always start with such good intentions of finishing in a timely manner. I dive in headfirst! I get immersed in whatever is my current obsession, living, eating, and breathing it until I lose sight of my normal daily activities.
For those that know me this is part of my wonderful/awful personality. I can be a passionate person and awesome friend, until I sink into my self made hole and stay there until sometime pulls me out of it.
I rarely finish something in a timely manner. I get half way through any given project and get distracted by the next interesting thing to catch my eye. That's right I have shiny object syndrome. (Isn't there a mythical creature known for being easily distracted and easily entertained? Elves? Fairies? Any insight? Maybe I'm a changeling and it's not really my fault!)
All that to say that my current writing project got shoved aside for my awesome apron-sewing project! Then that got pushed aside so I could get some reading in. Now I am obsessively cleaning and organizing my home. Did I mention I love organizing and look for excuses to organize things? I haven't? Well you should see my newly organized coat closet! It's orga-fabulous!
So how to get myself back to writing? Well an email from one of my readers politely pointing out that the story isn't over and has been left hanging for a month is one good way. I plan to read through my entire story to date (no major edits allowed) as if I was reading it for the first time. Then allow my mind to drift into the world of Adelaide again. Lets see if I can get back into my own make believe world. Wish me luck.
Oh and if no one hears from me for a while...well that just might mean I succeeded...that or I saw something pretty and sparkly!