I find myself going to Montreal...

[msagara]

On fairly short notice, for the weekend. For ConCept, which is the 13-14th of November.

I've been thinking a bit about a couple of questions asked elsewhere, vis a vis writing, and will post when I get home; I'm leaving on the overnight train (and mourning the loss of my beloved sections; they've changed their trains, and now offer rooms and deluxe rooms, but no sections!), and will arrive at some very early hour, which is made bearable only by the promised company.

I'm attempting to pack now. I am discovering the writing-avoidance, like packing-avoidance, is built-in. Saw cristalia at work today, where, in discussing the "post a line from a work in progress" meme on LJ, I expressed my utter astonishment at just how many works people have in progress at one time. I was never, ever capable of this; call it over-focus. The most that I will have "in progress" at one time are two projects -- and in that case it's because I've put the one in project on hold to meet a different deadline, which I will meet before returning to the work in progress. I didn't always tend to be quite so focused; there was a time when I could work on both a novel and a short story (but only one of each) at the same time, doing one in the morning and the other in the evening. That would be my definition of multi-tasking; I've never had a dozen projects on the go at the same time.

To everyone who has more than one, how does that work for you?

More later.

Comments

[jediboadicea.livejournal.com]

To everyone who has more than one, how does that work for you?

Like crap. Alas.

But I do have to echo the person who commented above when I say that the majority of the time, most of those "works in progress" are actually ideas comprised almost entirely of notes and maybe the first few pages; stories to be fleshed out at a later time rather than stuff currently "in the works." Still, even eliminating those, I usually have about three to four stories of all stripes and sizes on which I currently wish to be working, and will work on whenever the opportunity or inspiration strikes.

I've heard some people say that this is a good arrangement for those times when you just feel "stuck." Work on something else for a while, they say. If only that were the reason. < wry g > In my case, my sense of focus is simply painfully subject to whim. I work constantly on trying to control this "multi-tasking" urge, because it means that everything takes four times as long to complete. Needless to say I have not been as successful as I would like. When I have anything good to report on that front, I'm sure I'll be crowing it for all to hear. :)

[sleary.livejournal.com]

Precisely.