If you're hesitating, not knowing what to focus on, or having too many ideas - write about what you love.
Writing is a difficult craft. It takes hours to systematise your thoughts, crystallise, reread and edit them. Often, we think our thoughts are clearer than they actually are. It's only when we transcribe them that we discover that they are fragmented images rather than coherent narratives. It takes determination, discipline and devotion to keep on going when it seems like your own brain fails you...
This is where the passion struts in. It not only gives you the activation energy to kick-start the process, but also carries you through to completion because of that feeling in your chest that reminds you why you're putting yourself through the hardship.
Writers often advise to write about what you know. This is a good way of thinking about perfecting the craft. By writing about your environment, or setting your stories in an environment smiliar to the one you grew up in, you avoid the difficulties of imagining the circumstances. This increases the verisimilitude of your stories. You already know the physical as well as emotional nature of things, so you can focus on the plot and narrative. Writing about what you know also saves you time you would otherwise have to spend on research. John Updike and William Faulkner are examples of writers whose doing that didn't take away from the originality of their stories. However, what I find the most enthralling is the quirky, immature, slightly mental main character of Updike's 'Rabbit Run,' not the carefully constructed setting. (In fact, Updike himself found Rabbit so fascinating, he devoted three books to him! Talk about love...)
It seems like i's not always truthfulness that we seek when reading... unless it's the truthfulness of the writers towards themselves.
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