working on two or more stories at the same time

[inkstain]

i'm in the middle of writing two stories at the same time, and im not getting anywhere with either of them! I do this with reading books too.

do you think that it's counterproductive to do that? I can imagine it can sometimes help to swap back and forth between two stories when you're not making much progress with either of them. But at other times, like now for example, i think i should drop one of them and get some focus.

how many stories do you have on the go?

 

[NoJo]

Three.

 

[TheEarl]

Three, but I tend not to work simultaneously. I'll spend a week or two on one, then I might switch to another if I have ideas floating through my head.

The Earl

 

[oggbashan]

i'm in the middle of writing two stories at the same time, and im not getting anywhere with either of them! I do this with reading books too.

do you think that it's counterproductive to do that? I can imagine it can sometimes help to swap back and forth between two stories when you're not making much progress with either of them. But at other times, like now for example, i think i should drop one of them and get some focus.

How many stories do you have on the go?

Actually in progress probably anything between 2 and 5. Incomplete and waiting attention - about 40.

If you are stuck on both it is probably an idea to turn off the computer and go for a walk or any other different activity.

Switch off the story-telling part of the brain for a while. Perhaps even sleep before returning to the plot(s).

Og

 

[patricia51]

I've been known to have two unfinished stories open at the same time. Generally they will be completely different genres where something that occurs to me that doesn't fit in the storyline of one may well be perfect in the other.

As for partially completed, outlines, scattered paragraphs and notes on ideas; they're all over my "In Progress" workfile.

http://english.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=204232

 

[wishfulthinking]

I'm working on finishing the next chapter of all my stories [but nothing beyond probably 3 word pages yet on any of them! Buggers!]

But I want to start something new - I haven't written a new story in probably half a year. I have the title, but nothing else. I usually start the other way around.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I'm very single minded. I can only work on one story at a time. Once I start looking at something else, the fire goes out; the original story gets pushed to the back burner, and that's it. It's history.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Six. Rotating texts works for me.

 

[Evil Alpaca]

Three, and it's driving me nuts. I'm trying to figure out which one I want to work on most, then I'm going to put the other two aside. I'll see if it works . . .

 

[Boota]

I'm working on a short story, a new novel, a childrens book, and a screenplay. The novel takes precedence over all else, but when I hit a spot where I want to think more on the story I work on one of the other projects. They say a change is as good as a break.