Multi-tasking with writing

[Nameless_Rose]

Hey there everyone. I've recently started to change how I write in a rather interesting way. In the past I found that I could only truly concentrate on one creative project at a time. Recently, however, I find myself juggling with three or more different stories at a time, one of them a novel-length work. I have to admit that I love this change. I feel more productive. I'm just curious as to what other authors prefer in terms of workload. Do you like to focus all of your energy on one piece, or write three different stories at once, or maybe you alternate, concentrating soley on one work and then another.

 

[sr71plt]

I juggle several tasks at once--and work faster and more effectively when I do--but I'm rarely working on more than one personal writing project at once. (I can work on a couple of editing projects simultaneously--and juggled with my own writing--though. Not more than two, or I can't keep straight the specific requirements of one from the other). I can often break into writing a novel/novella-length work to write a short story. (Usually it's the short story that's insisting to play through and won't let me concentrate on the longer work until it gets drafted. I draft it and set it aside for polishing later). I also have to work in reading proofs of works in the publishing cycle.

 

[HeyAll]

I have no problem doing 2 stories at once. I've worked half way through a story, gotten stuck, and then started another in the mean time. It's not hard.