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 Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:47 am
Well I already have at least five stories started by myself, and posted on the internet, and i'm working on two others with a friend.
I had just came up with two great ideas for stories and I just started writing them up, and I need some help with this.
Is it bad to be working on so many staries at once?
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Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 11:09 am
I'm usually working on at least three short stories at once in addition to editing my novel manuscript and a collaboration. It isn't a problem for me, and I can't see how it would be. I guess the important question is if working on so many different things means the quality goes down.
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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:19 am
@Red: I really think it's more a matter of what you feel you can keep up with. Don't overstretch yourself but ensure you're still able to keep chipping away at the projects you do have.
If you find that you get distracted easily by other things, just make brief notes about your other ideas for you to come back to and continue working on one.
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Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 9:07 am
its not necciasarily bad but its not exactly the best thing to do. i am very good at doing more then one at a time because i have ALOT of free time and not a very large social life at the moment. but i will tell you that you will be easily distracted. i just say take your time and try not to overwelm yourself in your projects or you may become confused or bored and end up giving up on your projects. so just be carefull is the only advice i can really give here.
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Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 1:08 pm
It really depends on the individual writer. Me? I can hardly handle two roleplays at once, let alone a novel on top of it. But I do try, haha. But others? I've met other people who can write anything.
I know you've probably heard it a million times, but every writer is different. I think writing style can include how you multitask your writing. It takes practice to learn your own style, so keep writing and see how it goes. Generally, though, if you work too quickly, your work will, in fact, be crap.
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 4:26 pm
I've noticed that my stories some how take over one another, like I'll be obessed with one idea and then my brain will find a new one and I'm off on it and can't write the previous one worth nothing.
And then sometimes, I end up combining my two stories in my head...so when I get a thousand different characters all in a far too complicated story line that's when I know I have too many stories in my head!
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Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 3:46 am
Then maybe in that case Shelock, you'd be best concentrating on one. Or working on two entirely different stories.
I find having several projects ensures I don't get bored working on the one as it always feels fresh when I go back to them.
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 7:01 am
At the moment I'm working with two ideas that I'm trying to turn into novels (they're both doing very, very well). When I had two novel ideas running I had anxiety attacks for no reason at all, so I guess that's how I knew I had too many things going on (plus I was writing an essay and two fan fictions). I just had to step back, make a list of what I'm working on, and figure out how I was going to do everything.
I solved the problem with the novels by writing one for about 5,000 words then shift to the other one and write 5,000 words, and so on and so forth. With the fan fictions I dropped one for later and the essay... I just got my bum in gear because it was for school and knew I had to write it. stare
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 11:44 pm
The only problem is about doing so many stories at a time is focusing on the story, so since you basically responded by saying how a story takes over one another, you should probably work on one main idea that you really want to do, and do the others later if you have finished or something.
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