Road blocks, writer's block and building blocks

Ok. I'll admit first thing that the title is intentionally misleading. This post is about writer's block and I added the other two because I liked the way the sentence had an elementary school feel to it. You know...when you first learned how to write "essays" with a beginning, three topic middle and end. The last sentence of your first paragraph would be something like this: "Vegetables are bad for you because they get stuck in your teeth, they destroy your brain and they enhance all that is bad with the world." Come to think of it, that's how you ended the whole thing, too - with a copy of the end of your first paragraph. Maybe I was doing it wrong.

So yeah. I looked up this "Mercon" thing about a convention for mermaid-loving people/mermaids and read on their front page that the next "big thing" in "paranormal fiction" would be mermaids. Heck even stupid Stephanie Meyer of the Twilight awfulness said that she's writing about mermaids. F*** it! I practically threw something when I read that. Not that EVERYTHING I write about is about mermaids, but I have a few really good ideas that I've been messing with for a while now. I've written out character summaries, typed up scenes and dialogue, but never finished or really polished anything and then I read this. Boo!!! I really hope those people are overreaching in their theory that mermaids are going to be the next big "thing" because then it'll be one of two things:

1) It'll become WAAAY too hard to publish anything mermaid related because there's such a high expectancy level
- or -
2) It'll become WAAAY too easy to publish anything mermaid related because they'll take any piece of crap out there and it will become hard to distinguish between books and then they'll just become passe like stupid vampires and (to a lesser extent) zombies.

Bah. Can't let the bad feeling stick because it might never happen. Also, I suck at maintaining any one thing. I've got so many story starts (and subsequent abrupt stops), unfinished character maps, ideas, pieces of nothing that I don't know what to do with them. I get bored and move on before I ever finish anything. I'm surprised I've kept up with at least one blog a month on here so far. Maybe I'm growing slowly out of this "never finishing anything" phase. At this rate, I may have a novel ready to be presented by the time I'm 60. Woo hoo! I'm just now hitting halfway to 50. Crap.