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Post by RGraf »

Do you work on mulitple projects at once? I find that periodically I have to work on mulitple stories in order quiet the characters. I start to think of my unfinished stories and want to work on them as well. It is so frustrating. I need to duplicate myself.
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I tend to become obsessed with whatever I am writing and complete it before ever dreaming of starting a new project. This is not to say that I don't rewrite it several times before I consider it finished. In one instance I worked on a short story for two years before completing it. In that one instance only I let the story lay dormant before going back to it several times. Coincidentally, it is the longest of my short stories.
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Lol... I thought I was the only one who does that, sometimes I have to read the unfinished stories in order to continue
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I will work obsessively on a single project until I hit a roadblock. Then I will switch over to another story until I get stuck again, and then I’ll return and I’m usually able to get past the problem I was originally facing.
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I used to try working on multiple projects at once - then I realized I'm just a person who can't do that. I'd start something new, say I'd work on the other stuff later, and never get back to it. Now, I just work on one project at a time unless the new story is something very short (something that might take a day or two).
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I have too many projects and too little time to work on them all. I need to create a schedule for myself.
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I have like ten projects going at the same time because a new idea always pops out, but what i do is that i try to write my ideas as prompts and let them rest while i focus on my main project and until i have a solid base for it i expand the other ideas a little more. Of course time is never enough.

I'm trying to do only one at the time because i really want to finish my current one.
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This is the problem of a creative mind that ideas pop out at the most inappropriate timing. When you need to focus on one project. when you are ready to sleep.
I keep making a list of those ideas.
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Post by djcooper2015 »

I will often write on more than one project. Currently, I have four major works in progress, with multiple shorts or articles to complete at any given moment. People will ask me how I can do this. I just laugh and tell them "sometimes I get sick of the characters or something and if I don't move to something else for a time, I'll just kill them all off and write THE END!" With this way of doing things, however, I must say, I do a lot of reading in my own work. When I return to a book, I will rework a section or even the whole book before moving on.
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I used to do just that and had to train myself out of it over time gradually. Wasn't easy; a bit like getting over an addiction. Still, I find that I'm more productive if I'm working on two projects at once. When I hit a wall with one project, I can stimulate my creative juices by working on the other. I have to stop myself if I start to slip and begin a third project, though. I know too well from experience that if I have too many things going on at once, I won't be able to do anything useful with any of them!
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I can work on multiple projects if they're different forms of writing. At the moment I am revising the rough draft of my novel, and I will not work on another novel until it is complete. I can however, work on articles and book reviews at the same time.

I know if I start another novel, my current one will be pushed to the side and I'll lose track of where I wanted it to go.
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I think I have over 20 projects going on at once? If I get stuck on one than I can work on another.
It really doesn't help with actually finishing a project, though.
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I get so involved in what I am writing that is all I think about. If I were to have more than one writing project, I fear that they would all end up sounding the same.
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Post by Lady-of-Literature »

Aw man, do I! I start so many projects without finishing. I'm trying to break myself out of that or at least be more progressive with it. For example, I might write on Monday-Friday for like an hour on one project and draw concept art for another on weekends.
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I will work on one project obsessively until my inspiration starts to wane or I run into a roadblock. It's nice to have a completely different project to switch over to in order to keep my mind flexible and open to new ideas. I am guilty of losing interest in partially completed projects, but most of the time I go back to them when inspiration hits again.
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