I know you've said somewhere before that you have multiple projects going at any one time, so I was wondering if you had any general advice about writing and editing two different projects at the same time? I want to finish writing Foundling for a Hobbit Big Bang in April but I really need to finish editing Beskel for the HRBB. I'm thinking about using the kids' nap time to write my 1k while using bed time for editing since that tends to be more time consuming for me.
Honey, if I knew how to do that my productivity would SKYROCKET, lol.
But to answer your question as best I can: I'm a chronic starter. I love starting new projects, however if I don't finish them in one sitting then sometimes I never finish them at all. I love the idea of stories, but apparently I have some subconscious fear of completing them, because then I have to leave that world behind. For me, an incomplete story is still a living story, whereas my completed ones are on some level dead to me.
As for advice, one reason I have so many projects is because each story has its own mood. When I start writing on a given day, I'm not always in the mood for, say, a dark story of despair, isolation, and redemption (PtBS) or a mad-cap ensemble piece with action and adventure (Mad Baggins) or a love story (lay your troubles down), interrogation and manipulation (Hide Not Thy Poison), horror (Nightmares), or a different fandom altogether (To Be Human, The Road from Hell). So I jump between different projects until I've got the right mood and the right music, and then no matter what I pick I feel guilty because I'm not working on original stories that would actually advance my career, lol.
So for me, writing two stories at once is not about advancing multiple projects, it's about staying busy when I have very changeable moods and not a lot of discipline. It's about keeping it fun, because I have no self-control and writing is hard :P
