I currently have five projects I’m working on. I’m pretty sure that goes against organizational and progress research. We’re supposed to work on one project at a time in order to see results, right? But maybe artists don’t play by those rules.
The October writing challenge is over. I didn’t win, but I did make progress! I worked on a couple of different projects each day this week. I have the 5 projects on sticky notes above my desk. I’ve organized my spiral notebooks into a new vertical file rack, so everything is easy to get to. No more stacks where things can get buried.
The math workbook is getting done. It’s a bit tedious to keep track of which vocabulary words I’ve used. The formatting, which I’m doing by hand, means I need to refer to my notes so the types of pages are as uniform as I can make them. Tabs are my best friend with these books.
I’ve made progress with the holiday novella. I even had an idea about how to show the couple in the cabin and the help they’ll get to solve the crime. The illustrated short story project is open, as is the third novel in the Waldman Investigations series.
The project that will receive the most attention this weekend, and through Wednesday of next week, is the first short story for the anthology. At the meeting last weekend, it was voted that if we wait too long to get the first section stories written, then the project may languish for some time. Our drafts need to be sent to the group on Thursday. The story must be less than 5K words.
Sometimes having lots of options make for procrastination or inhibits creativity. For some of us, options, at least in what we can work on, encourages creativity to flow. Do you work on one project at a time or several?
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