No one else has, so I thought I would comment on the handling more than one project aspect of your post.
Personally, I find it really difficult to work on more than one thing at a time. I do know some people who do it well, but they either have insanely better time management skills than I do or are really good at keeping separate head spaces for each project. I hit walls in my stories every once and a while where I'm struck with horrible doubt, and I start thinking that it will never be what I want it to be, it's crap, whatever...and if I have another project to move onto that seems bright and shiny and full of possibility...those bumps can be really hard for me to get past.
So I try my best to work on only one project at a time. When I have an idea for something new, I note it down, and then move on. I figure that whatever the idea is, it has to be good enough to hold my attention for the months it will take to write. And if it fades away and loses my interest before I can even finish what I'm working on presently...it's probably not something that would have panned out in the long run anyway.
If I know that my new idea will take a long of ground work to get going though, like a lot of research, I'll sometimes start on that at the same time that I'm working on my first project. Helps keep the idea fresh and makes me feel like I'm paying attention to it, but it doesn't take too much time and energy away from what needs to be finished first.
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Date: 2009-08-20 07:05 pm (UTC)Personally, I find it really difficult to work on more than one thing at a time. I do know some people who do it well, but they either have insanely better time management skills than I do or are really good at keeping separate head spaces for each project. I hit walls in my stories every once and a while where I'm struck with horrible doubt, and I start thinking that it will never be what I want it to be, it's crap, whatever...and if I have another project to move onto that seems bright and shiny and full of possibility...those bumps can be really hard for me to get past.
So I try my best to work on only one project at a time. When I have an idea for something new, I note it down, and then move on. I figure that whatever the idea is, it has to be good enough to hold my attention for the months it will take to write. And if it fades away and loses my interest before I can even finish what I'm working on presently...it's probably not something that would have panned out in the long run anyway.
If I know that my new idea will take a long of ground work to get going though, like a lot of research, I'll sometimes start on that at the same time that I'm working on my first project. Helps keep the idea fresh and makes me feel like I'm paying attention to it, but it doesn't take too much time and energy away from what needs to be finished first.