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: 2004-11-14 09:41 am (UTC)The thing I'm really working on is a class on writing synopses, distilled from Pam McCutcheon's fine book. And pushing her book. (Convention 19th-21st)
Next will be an Alfreda novel, not quoted from...the damn thing is, I have to wait until she gives me the first line of a chapter. Not possible first lines...THE first line.
It will probably come at 10:00 pm at night. I will write it down, and the next AM--boom! Scenes start coming.
In other words, a lot of head back story must be going on. Like you, I don't think I could actively work on a lot of things at one time.
Hope it's a good con--