11.23.08
Attention Span of a Gnat
How many of you have more than one writing project going?
Yea, me too! I actually have about four going right now. Half of which are sequels to stories that could use some serious editing (add those to the project list).
I have to admit I find it very hard to concentrate on one thing at a time. I like the variety that working on more than one story provides me. I like that if I get stuck in one I can bop on over to another and get my creative juices flowing again. That is until I feel I can get something going in the other then I get back to it. Back and forth and back and forth, it seems to work for me so far. I suppose one could say it helps my productivity in some way as well….since I still end up writing and working, just not on the same story all the way through.
At any rate I am technically doing Nano but have somewhat stalled out on my story there so I’ve grooved on over to another where I’ve written 9,128 words. I think there is likely a rule somewhere that states you have to work on the same story throughout for word count purposes but if there wasn’t I’d have just under 21K words right now. Of course this doesn’t account for the words written in a third story I’ve been editing but I’ll save that for another day. LOL
Ultimately since I have been writing consistently (just not the same story) I’m going to pat myself on the back and consider myself accomplished. November has been a pretty strong month for the word count if I do say so myself.
Laura said,
January 15, 2009 at 2:01 am
I’m all ADD with books, too. I’m reading four right now. And editing my NaNo novel while completing writing gigs, looking for more work, and listening to podcasts, and reading a million blogs.