Multitasking
I've always been one of those people who refused to write more than one project at a time. While I was getting my Masters, that made a helluva lot of sense. I had SERIOUS deadlines that I had to fulfill, and a project to finish.
But those deadlines are gone. And yet, I've been holding on to the idea that I can't work on more than one project at a time. Why?
Fact: once I get immersed into a project mentally, I don't like thinking about another project at all, because it requires a gear-shit.
Fact: sometimes I have moments where my brain REFUSES TO THINK about the current project, and it leaps to something else I've got on the back burner.
So why not make use of that? It's not as if I have SERIOUS deadlines to follow (I do actually have deadlines, but those are such that I'm not required to turn in a specific project), so why not focus on which ever project strikes my fancy at the time?
I keep needing to find a way to fall in love with writing all over again. Maybe the first step is letting go and allowing myself to have more than one iron in the fire. If I feel like working on the SFR, I will. If I want to brainstorm the space opera, I will. Or entertain the thought of writing a YA? Why the hell not?
Of course, right now all of the irons I've got are in the planning stages. I'm unfortunate in that I can't do jack unless I've got my world-building mostly figured out, and the type of stuff I'm writing requires extensive world-building. This is also symptomatic of how my brain works: I'm the asshole who keeps poking holes in things and asking questions and tearing apart what appears to be a perfectly logical system, so unless I can come up with something that's foolproof for that part of my brain, I won't write, because I'll have to toss it anyway.
But the idea is this: once I reach the point where I can actually write one of these projects, and then another, perhaps the butt-in-chair sessions will start out with, "Which project do you feel like working on today?"
After all, what's stopping me? Well, there might be plenty in terms of how this brain works, but until I stumble upon such things, why not try?
But those deadlines are gone. And yet, I've been holding on to the idea that I can't work on more than one project at a time. Why?
Fact: once I get immersed into a project mentally, I don't like thinking about another project at all, because it requires a gear-shit.
Fact: sometimes I have moments where my brain REFUSES TO THINK about the current project, and it leaps to something else I've got on the back burner.
So why not make use of that? It's not as if I have SERIOUS deadlines to follow (I do actually have deadlines, but those are such that I'm not required to turn in a specific project), so why not focus on which ever project strikes my fancy at the time?
I keep needing to find a way to fall in love with writing all over again. Maybe the first step is letting go and allowing myself to have more than one iron in the fire. If I feel like working on the SFR, I will. If I want to brainstorm the space opera, I will. Or entertain the thought of writing a YA? Why the hell not?
Of course, right now all of the irons I've got are in the planning stages. I'm unfortunate in that I can't do jack unless I've got my world-building mostly figured out, and the type of stuff I'm writing requires extensive world-building. This is also symptomatic of how my brain works: I'm the asshole who keeps poking holes in things and asking questions and tearing apart what appears to be a perfectly logical system, so unless I can come up with something that's foolproof for that part of my brain, I won't write, because I'll have to toss it anyway.
But the idea is this: once I reach the point where I can actually write one of these projects, and then another, perhaps the butt-in-chair sessions will start out with, "Which project do you feel like working on today?"
After all, what's stopping me? Well, there might be plenty in terms of how this brain works, but until I stumble upon such things, why not try?