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In my experience there are two kinds of screenwriters: those who have a difficult time finding ideas and those who have too many ideas.
What's wrong with having too many ideas? You can't focus. You get all caught up in your story about the hockey player and you're rolling along, then your story about the advertising executive with super powers permeates your brain. So you start working on that. Then that romantic comedy about the pet store owner consumes you.
Before you know it you've got batches of pages for each screenplay, but you're so unfocused you can't finish one. And what usually happens is you feel frustrated and angry at yourself for not focusing, so you do the mature thing and start yet another idea.
Problem is, all of your ideas are good. You've bounced them off your friends and everybody loves them.
The only way around this is to take a stand and commit to one. Promise yourself that you'll finish a draft. There's nothing more pathetic than a screenwriter with more false starts than completed scripts.
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