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

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

It only works for me if they're different enough to be in different mental boxes. I can have a kids story, a fanfic, and a fantasy novel in progress all at once, and I work on the one I'm in the mood for at the moment. (Or three fanfics, in sufficiently different fandoms/moods/characters.)

Also I tend to use "in progress" to mean "neither finished nor abandoned". It doesn't mean I'm working on them all every day, or in alternation -- I tend to binge on something till I hit a stopping point, then set it aside to clear and work on something else in the meantime. And then there are deadlines which become priority interrupts -- whatever I was working on before has to take a back seat to the story due tomorrow.

[fairmer.livejournal.com]

Yep, what stakebait said and what janni said, and so on... They may be in progress, but they're not all occupying the same front-of-brain space.