I've found that whenever I start to work on one thing, everything else tarts itself up and offers me oral sex. I mean, they are that forward and bluntly seductive, "C'mon, that story only does it missionary style. I'll try anything twice, three times if I hate it!"

Drat them! And when I give in, the OTHER story tries to win me back!

Or maybe not. Could be that other things look less like work than the work at hand. And they DO come vividly to life for me when I'm not thinking so hard on them, like the way a star is a bit brighter when you look juuust to the side of it.