I'm working on a novella for my publisher right now. It's due March first so I really need to just get it done. It's a fun story and I'm enjoying writing it and everything, but I have this other story in the back of my head that keeps pushing to the front of my brain. The story wants to be told so badly and I really want to tell it! This one isn't for a specific publisher, no deadline or anything so I really just need to work on my original novella, but its hard when the characters from the second book are screaming in my ear to give them heir HEA.
So, whats a girl to do? Well, I decided to work on both! I already know where I want to go with both stories. Character sketches are done, blurbs are written, the whole nine yards. Now I have to actually write them! I decided since most of my writing is done during the baby's nap time or throughout the day that's when I would work on my novella. If and only if I hit my goal for the day, then I will write a little bit on the second book in the evening time. I did this for the first time yesterday and it worked well. I did my five pages on my novella and the in the evening I wrote three on my novel. Didn't do too much on either. Just enough to make some progress and feel like I'm accomplishing something. I felt pretty damn good about myself by the end of the day! I was like the multitasking queen yesterday. LOL. I'm hoping that will fuel me to accomplish as much if not more today!
Do you ever work on more than one project at once?
8 comments:
Kelley,
I always write more than one at a time. I write according to my moods. I usually have anywhere from 2-5 books going at once. It keeps me from getting writer's block too. If I get stuck...I just jump into another book to take a break from it but that way I'm always writing. It's all about finding balance and you sound like you've done that!
Yep. I do that, too. I just finished one book so that one is in the edits/polishing stage. Then I have two in the writing/working stage. And another in the planning stage. I always have several churning along. As Laurann said, that helps prevent those doldrums all writers have at some stage in a book.
This is something I need to start doing. I tend to do one story at a time but sometimes, like you, something else is just dying to be written. It might be tough to move from one to the other but I'd like to try it and see how it goes.
Yes, but I really need to start paying better attention when I do more than one thing at a time because I find myself making mistakes in either one or both projects that I would not normally make, which then leaves me embarrased.
I'm always working on multiple projects. It's just the way accounting goes most of the time.
Wow, maybe this will work well for me. It seems like a lot of you are doing the same thing and it's working well. I should get much more done that way too!
I actually try not to work on more than one thing at once because I get flustered by it. I work best focused on one thing at a time. However, if I'm stuck in something, I will sometimes take a break from one project to work on another. Hopefully I'll finish the second before going back to the first.
I usually work on one story at a time, but I DO write up synopses and blurbs for the next few stories I want to write. That way there's no lull in btwn...
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