I could never abandon my love. I get into a deep head-state for whatever I'm working on, because it takes me a lot of concentration to do things that most other people don't even have to think about. I have enough plot holes/inconsistencies to worry about at the moment, and doubling that will not help. That said, I will happily let my finished first draft sit on ice for half a year while I work on other things. If I ever get to that point, of course.
I'm monogamous, but I get divorced and remarry a lot. I kid. It was nearly impossible, but just yesterday I set aside my novel to work on another. Not because I'm a quitter, but because the rewrite is coming out wrong. I've decided to take some time doing something different while I sort out the story in my head. I'll go right back to it once I know where to go.
One of those towns in the Okanagan AKA 'wine country' or 'Canada's California.' The mild winters and hot summers aren't always to my liking, but I still love it here.
When I was a child, I got into building model ships and planes in a big way. I can remember working on a model of a submarine, one in which the decks and compartments were completely exposed, a tremendous amount of detail. I couldn't have been more than 10, and I was having a terrible amount of difficulty fitting something into something (can't remember what, now). Anyway, I was getting more frustrated by the minute but I was too stubborn to give up. Finally, my mother, who knew nothing about ship models or submarines, came by and said, "Why don't you put it aside for a while? Do something else. When you come back later, you can start fresh." I did. I still couldn't get it to fit, but at least I was able to figure out why. And that advice has served me well ever since.
Jeez, here I thought having 5 different projects on the go was me being a masterful, proactive multitasker, turns out I'm an aggressive procrastinator.
I have ideas jotted down for my next projects. When I finish the first draft of my current novel, I plan to work on the next one for a month. Then, I'll go back to the original to edit.
I write one, plan 100 . While writing the one I'm on if i get inspiration for a scene I write it down. If it wont fit I store it and after a while the pile of ideas makes another story. And I at least have the backbone of 3 extra stories in note books ready.
I'm not the innocent little old granny you seem to think I am, kiddo! they were nifty little tales full of graphic and 'creative' sex that all had surprise endings, for a collection titled 'Surprise!'... hafta admit that in one of the niftiest, I sorta 'took' just a bit from the 'barbarella' flick's seminal scene featuring jane fonda and a machine of sorts and raised it rather to excess, I'm rather proudly ashamed to say... [pardon the double entendres... I can never resist one when it presents itself ] have I totally disillusioned you, amico mio?
I'm working on one and laying ground work for the sequel, but I'm not going to get too sidetracked with a lot of projects. If I do, I'll produce garbage.
I was just wondering whether many of you write simultaneous pieces of work? I've got 2 pieces which I feel I work on whichever mood I'm in as to which piece I am actually able to write.
Yup. I have two that go from front to back burner depending on my mood and one that's wrapped in tinfoil in the fridge. I'll get to it one day.
My scripted story is a trilogy. I'm working 90% of the time on script one, outline occasionally on script two and think about ideas of script three.
I can beat all of you: I have my Creative Writing degree pieces to sort out whenever a new one comes around, I have a third draft to finish, three first drafts to finish, a novel currently in the planning stages, a ten-minute radio drama to write, a short horror story, and poetry whenever I feel in the right mood. The good thing is that I actually finish projects, so it doesn't matter how many I have. You're definitely not alone!
Wow Thomas kitchen!!!! You do have a lot to do!!!! Don't think I could keep up. Hey. You mention about a piece of radio drama,-can i ask how you get into that and about publishing and the rest? I don't know a thing about that. I often have to suffer 'the archers ' on my dad's radio - no I don't mean I don't like it, just the opening and ending music drives me insane!!!! Every single day!!!! But I hear dramas and when I'm led down trying to take a nap but can't doze off they are really good. Maybe you can private message me
I don't work multiple pieces but I do have quite a few just waiting for me to get back to. I just get excited about a new idea or with something I want to try and drop my current focus for the new one. Then I flop back and forth between the others as I finish up or get excited again. Generally, 2-5 pieces.
Definitely do. Right now I'm working on two novels and two short stories. I've got a half dozen, half finished stories and still I find myself writing little flash pieces. Everything's whirling around in my mind like a kaleidoscope.
I had one of those in the fridge too. I opened up and it crawled right out the door on me. Had to give the fridge a good scrub down. I decided to let it go though. Not really working on anything at the moment though.
I have several projects on the go: a novel I'm working on the second draft of, a screenplay I'm rewriting as a novel, a series of science-fiction novelettes, and a science-fiction novella that will probably turn into another series. In addition to that, I have ideas for two other novels, one a modern urban fantasy, and the other a kind of science-historical adventure. My plate is pretty full. I like it that way.
One novel W.I.P, a short story collection in need of some editing and polishing, and I'm in the research stages of another novel. I bounce about between them depending on mood, where I am, and so forth.
