I find myself going to Montreal...
Nov. 12th, 2004 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
msagaraOn 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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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.
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.
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Date: 2004-11-12 06:12 pm (UTC)I can have up to two "active" projects at any given time, and one has to be a primary. What works best is having a novel for a primary, and letting the secondary be whatever story is white-hot/moving at the moment. I've tried doing equal-time with two novels, or two stories, and my brain simply gets stuck in one mode and can't make the daily transition. This system has actually been working very well for me right now, what with the lizard. I have WC#2 (--after I turn that one in, plus revisions on WC#1, I get paid!) for the primary, and let the short stories ambush me whenever they like. (Including the space-opera-in-an-envelope-in-a-day. Ye gods, I'm not doing that again anytime soon.) This is also why my fantasy novel-in-progress is on hiatus, because getting the commissioned piece done is a higher priority.
How this would work if I were under contract for a novel, I have no idea. I would hope that the system would translate, but...yeah. Not exactly going to be a concern in the foreseeable future. But I don't mind having tons of openings/partial stories kicking around. They'll bear fruit years later--I'm planting seeds for those future years.