Juggling multiple projects

[sarillia]

How do you handle this? Do you work on one thing at a time or are you always working on several? Do you have one dominant one and other ones you add to on the side or is your time split equally among them?

I'm about to start Camp NaNoWriMo next week and I'm not sure if I will be done with my current project before then, so I'm trying to decide what I should do.

There are a lot of aspects of writing where I feel like I've figured out what works best for me after a lot of experimenting. This is not one of them. I can think of times when seeing one project through to the end worked well and other times when alternating between several served me well. I guess I tend to go back and forth between those methods.

Comments

[perfectworry]

I usually juggle a bunch of projects, but none of them are srsnbsns, so that means no strict deadlines or outlining or even a whole hell of a lot of editing.

Usually during (Camp) NaNoWriMo, all other projects get put on the back burner not because of distractions or project confusion, but time. There just aren't enough hours in a day to bang out my 1,667 words and fiddle with short fics for my other projects, at least not during the work week.

[sarillia]

I don't worry about time. I have way too much of that on my hands and I write very quickly when I get into the right mood.

Speaking of Camp NaNo, are you doing that next month? I'm working on plotting my project for that.

[perfectworry]

I often don't have the time to write at all during the work week, between an eleven hour day (leave home at 7am, return home shortly before 6pm) and health problems. Which brings me to the Camp NaNo question, the answer to which is: I'm not sure. I think because Camp NaNo allows for wordcounts down to 10,000, I might participate and try to write (and edit) a short story that I can really feel proud of instead of just rushing to write 50,000 words.

[sarillia]

I also have health problems that get in the way but they have helped to keep me out of school for a while and I have no job so I have nothing but time. My output is actually kind of pathetic when you consider all the time I have. I've always wondered how things would change if I had a job. Hopefully I'll get a chance to find out before too long.