First Step In a New Direction

The impulse to create something new or genuinely different is an old one- an old puzzle.

I've never gotten past the stage of writing ideas down and that's because most of the time I feel like I've created a new idea and then- boom- I see it expressed in someone else's work, and sometimes with so much more craft and finesse I feel awful and want to quit writing.

But, for some reason, I never did. Instead, I suppose, I simply want to try and make a story- however it turns out. I'm almost assured that it will be obscure, but...what choice do you have? You can't choose the things you love. You can only deal with them.