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

[faithburke.livejournal.com]

I'm really bad about doing this too. I'm currently signed up for five big bangs, two of them 20K and the other three 15K, and I'm considering signing up for another. What I find that works so that I don't get sick of the story and still get them all done is that I usually only plan to work on one in a day (Mondays are for spn_j2_bigbang, Tuesdays are cross_bigbang, etc.) and I set myself a daily goal. I write at least 1000 words on that story that particular day, and then if I want to write anything else I do. Since writing is my stress relief during my lunch break at work and I plot out stories on my drive in and out, this works for me.