Natalia TheodoridouWrite one thing at a time?
Work on multiple projects simultaneously?
Chaos, it's just chaos.
Something different (please elaborate).
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I try to write one thing & edit/plan one thing at a time, but I often fail and end up working on multiple projects at once because things come up unexpectedly. So in the end it's chaos.
Abrianel@nassos I usually have 1 thing planned out well but over the course of writing/editing, I get about a dozen new ideas. Then editing stalls but I can't bring myself to fully start something new and it's a hot mess of projects at different levels of completion. 😅
@abrinael Yes, same, the new ideas struggle is real 😅
Supermouse The Rodent@nassos I literally do whatever appeals at the time, which turned out to be the only way I ever completed a book-length work. I also write whatever trash I feel like writing, for myself, and now I have a pretty consistent writing habit.
@Supermouse An excellent strategy, then!
@nassos Nine and sixty ways...
There's a Puritan ethos that says 'writing should be hard work' and also 'stick one project through, no matter how difficult', both of which led to my having a ten year writing hiatus on a novel I wasn't ready for, which is also the only one I ever outlined.
Now I'm revising some, admittedly, terrible, terrible novels, but they're at least in second pass. I've learned to fix my own bad habits, and the new ones are noticeably better. And I'm enjoying all of it.
Pandora@nassos Can’t hate your own writing and feel like you’re useless if you never actually write anything 
Olivia Werth 🏳️⚧️@DoraDisorder @nassos Oh, how I wish that was true. 😿
Marissa Lingen@nassos The chaos is a superpower.
Shell Bryson@nassos I can't work on simultaneous writing projects. But within that singular project? Chaos. Always the chaos.
K. A. Tutin@nassos My process varies, really. Right now I'm trying to stick to one project at a time, but then I might sneak a few words on others when their pestering gets too much. So, yes, chaos indeed!
Scott King@nassos I can only write/rewrite one fiction thing at a time.
I can write/write one fiction thing while also dealing with editor or beta reader notes on another fiction thing.
I can also write/rewrite one fiction thing while also working on writing/rewriting a non-fiction thing. Like morning do fiction and afternoon non-fiction.
@ScottKing That makes a lot of sense to me. I think my strategy of editing in the morning / drafting in the afternoon is similar.
Wendy Parciak@nassos Mostly one thing. Sometimes I have to switch back and forth between writing one thing & editing another, and I find it quite hard because it uses such different parts of the brain.
Halo@nassos
When I'm drafting, I'm drafting one thing at time and obsessed with it. But having just finished a first draft, I'm learning I need to work on something else to get some space from it, so I guess I'm going to have at least two WIPs on the go before this first one is finished.
When I'm drafting, I'm drafting one thing at time and obsessed with it. But having just finished a first draft, I'm learning I need to work on something else to get some space from it, so I guess I'm going to have at least two WIPs on the go before this first one is finished.
@halo That's what I tend to do, too: draft one, then draft another while editing the previous one.
Nathan Lowell (he/him) 📎I tend to work on one thing at a time but I often have projects in various stages of production.
Right now:
An essay series on #SelfPublishing and marketing
3 novels in 2nd draft
1 novel in planning/1st draft
My most active project is building a robust story bible for the 20 books I've published.