ProcessFest Day 3: Multiple Projects
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processfestDay 3 of processfest ! Share your creative process.
Today's prompt: Multiple Projects
Do you work on multiple projects at once? If you do, how do you juggle them? Do they fight for your attention? Or are you singularly focused? Do you set aside specific time for one project or many projects, or do you let yourself be guided by what you want to work on the most?
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processfest ! Share your creative process.Today's prompt: Multiple Projects
Do you work on multiple projects at once? If you do, how do you juggle them? Do they fight for your attention? Or are you singularly focused? Do you set aside specific time for one project or many projects, or do you let yourself be guided by what you want to work on the most?
To participate, share your contribution in the prompt post for the day, and if you'd like, link back to this community in your own space.
Want some more ideas? Go back to Day 1 and Day 2. There's no time limit!
What you want to share doesn't fit the prompt? Don't worry, link to it anyway! All that matters in the end is that we keep talking about how we do what we do - and that we keep creating.
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Date: December 6th, 2013 09:29 am (UTC)Always. I need one project to relax from working too hard another. Of course, this counts work and study as projects, too. I put down my study books, bleary-eyed, and pick up some knitting and a cop show so I don't have to think anymore. I put down my knitting, wanting something more challenging, and start filling out complicated fictional world. This is why it's so hard to get any exercise done. I have so many other more interesting things to do.
Some projects do fall by the wayside, and I need to prioritize to make sure the important ones get done. I do schedule - I have to, or I'd forget half the things I'm supposed to get done. If I give myself unlimited time on something, it might never get done - just ask the cut but unsewn dragon plushie that's been waiting in my cupboard for two months, despite the fact that sewing is usually my favourite part. (By the way: I sew by hand, for many reasons, but it's also just easiest when your plushies are palm-sized and relatively complex.)
I schedule - but I don't follow my schedule perfectly. If I didn't get a thing done, I just push it forward one more day. Sometimes I rearrange the schedule to fit my preferences. It's really more like a to-do list with dates. I couldn't stop myself following my whims and desires even if I tried. The best I can do is try to nudge myself, guide my energy into what needs to get done.