Writing advice?

[ratherastory]

I posted this elsewhere, so apologies to people seeing it twice.

Okay, so ratherastory has probably bitten off more than she can chew. No one is surprised. At least I'm aiming high, right?

So I have several large projects, all of which are due in the next six to eight weeks, in rough form. These range from a couple of 10k+ commitments to 15k+ commitments to three 20k+ commitments. Yeah, I know.

I've done a couple of balancing acts in the past, but never so many at once.

So here's my question. Has anyone here done this kind of thing before? How do you manage multiple large simultaneous projects? Do you have a system? Do you allocate specific amounts of time/whatever to each project every day? Work on whichever project strikes your fancy on a given day?

In short, what's your strategy? Do you have tips? Advice? Giant heaps of mockery because I have no self-control? ;)

Comments

[authoressnebula.livejournal.com]

What I do when I have huge amounts of fics like that due is that I sit and write out, in short script, what's coming up next. Doesn't even have to be in order. I'll have the beginning already written in story form and I'll think, oh yeah, there's that scene where: "S (for Sam) goes to circus, runs into polka dancing possessed clown, freaks out, D (for Dean) has to come protect him and use seltzer bottle with holy water." Bam, scene kept so I don't lose it. I might actually get writing, real writing, beyond that, and I'll do that before I lose it. If the skeleton's there, then it's MUCH easier to fill in the muscles and skin afterwards. Hard to hang all that tissue without bones.

I have no mockery because I've so done this before and I SO don't envy you. *pets*

Hi, by the way. I know, I've been awful about being on LiveJournal. Apparently four jobs takes up time: who knew? *headdesk*

~Nebula