I struggle a lot with finding a balance between multiple projects. Back in the day, I used to start dozens of things and bounce between them depending on my interest. Coincidentally, I also rarely finished anything. I've learned that there's a disillusionment period about 2/3 of the way through a longer draft, at least for me. That's when I find myself completely disgusted with the entire project, and convinced it's never going to even vaguely resemble the vision I originally had for it. It's so, so tempting then to turn my attention to those fresh, new projects that I'm still completely in love with. For me, the trick is not to give into that siren song. There's too great a likelihood I'll turn my back entirely on the first draft. You don't even want to know how many 2/3 complete stories I've got on my hard drive. These days, I try to buckle through until I'm finished unless another project has a closer deadline.
Occasionally, that causes problems for me. Sometimes, two projects have deadlines that are close enough I can't justify completely finishing one and then turning my attention to the other. That's the situation I'm in right now. I need to be working on Yuletide, but I keep wanting to put it off until I'm done with my big bang. I'm not doing a good job of balancing between them at all. Also, I work from home, and I sometimes struggle balancing my work writing and my fiction writing. My job gives me a lot of flexibility with the hours I work, but sometimes that's a drawback. I keep exploring options to add more structure to my days, but I'm not very good at it.
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Date: December 5th, 2013 06:12 am (UTC)Occasionally, that causes problems for me. Sometimes, two projects have deadlines that are close enough I can't justify completely finishing one and then turning my attention to the other. That's the situation I'm in right now. I need to be working on Yuletide, but I keep wanting to put it off until I'm done with my big bang. I'm not doing a good job of balancing between them at all. Also, I work from home, and I sometimes struggle balancing my work writing and my fiction writing. My job gives me a lot of flexibility with the hours I work, but sometimes that's a drawback. I keep exploring options to add more structure to my days, but I'm not very good at it.