My problem is too many ideas, and lack of discipline. Unless I compete a short story within a fairly brief timeframe I become eager to develop a new idea rather than stick to completing and editing the current work. Its bad enough with short stories but I'm dreading starting a novel - every idea is more worthy of my attention than the last because its new and exciting. How do you kerb the idea to jump on new projects?
I think it's fair to say that the planning is the fun bit. I break up my novel writing with writing the planning docs for the next one (and sometimes the first chapter too). And then I go back to the novel.
I'm in full edit mode at the moment and it's driving me crazy, but I'm keeping with it... just!
Start a novel! :)
If your creativity is having a flourish embrace it. When working with a novel length piece of work you need a lot of ideas, marrying them within the narrative. Perhaps you cannot settle because you need a challenge.
Don't hold back because you think you need to acquire skills in a certain order, part of the beauty of self taught art is that it is organic at it's inception and the routes the search for knowledge takes.
I find this so, anywho.