lilacstarflower

Out of curiosity, really. Obviously those who do this as a living will be constantly working on ideas too, but for those of us who don't -

How many projects are you working on right now?

How many ideas do you have ready to be written after you have completed the one(s) your working on now?

I'm worried - I'm seriously attempting two novels at the moment and have four outlines/ideas that I will definately attempt next. It's giving me a 'time urgency' persona and I don't like it

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C.M.C.

I have a sheet of paper with a list of ideas on it, only one or two of which I really like, and none of which I'm working on. I'm on sabbatical while I go through the process of seeing my book being developed and readied.

lisajane

I've got two novels and a short story at the same time.

I never write down my ideas until they're actually written into the story, but there's lots of ideas in my mind when I'm writing. The good ones stay with me until I drag myself off to write about it.

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OtherWorlds

I'm currently concentrating on finishing one novel right now, but I have two others in the background I work on at odd moments. I have vague outlines written for my next five novels, and a couple of short story ideas floating around in my head. Oh, to have more time...

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HarryG

Ultimately, we all have the big one to write, usually, the last one, the autobiographical one, although the modern trend seems to be an early completion, to be amended as time passes. Long before I start on that one, I've got two works in progress, and I don't mind admitting that I'm struggling.

lilacstarflower

That's exactly the problem! There are not enough hours in the day

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celestialwolf

I've been right there where you are. I had several WIPs in the fire and several more ideas on the back burner. I struggled and couldn't get anything finished. I put my foot down and focused on one. By doing so, I manged to start finishing projects left and right. If you've got editors breathing down your neck about edits on one book and the deadline for another then you don't have much of a choice. If no one is breathing down your neck, do what's comfortable for you. If an idea flares for me, outside of my current WIP, I just stuff it in my idea folder. When I'm done and I'm ready for my next piece I just go back to my folder and pick the one that's screaming the loudest.

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SparkyLT

I'm currently working on three novels and a novella, but I'm stuck at all of them...maybe I should cut down.

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Litharukia

Currently I'm working on my novel Jihad and plotting my novel for AugNoWriMo (national novel writing month-in August) and the first of five novels I'll be working on during November.

At any given time I have at least one novel-length project going, usually a short story idea or two (but those have dried up recently), and I often have some ideas in my head not currently in use.

I DO manage to finish stuff... slowly. And while Jihad I've been working on for a year or two, it's only because I had to start over twice!

WriterDude

Right I'm working on two or three novels, three short stories, are co-writing a fourth short story and have somewhere between ten and twenty concepts for novels just laying around. So how was your day?

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lancengym

Be very realistic about your ideas. Give a verbal outline to pple around you first. If it doesn't seem attractive, shelf it. Work on those ideas that appeal. Everyone has limited time, and working on too many at the same time may cause you to hardly complete any.

The problem with many aspiring authors is they all tend to think their books have great potential, or that they have great talent (if only the stupid agents/publishers will realise it and not keep rejecting them...) and are reluctant to bin their ideas or rework lousy drafts. This criticism includes myself too even though I do publishing; when I write as an author sometimes I get carried away too. But now functioning more as a publisher I can see the other side. The truth is, there are very few quality and marketable works out there being submitted. Don't waste your time on ideas that won't sell unless you are just writing for personal pleasure.

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starStuff

I'm focusing on one book write now, The Gadon Stone. This, however, is my third attempt at a book. The previous attempt, called The Last Mediator, is the first of a trilogy and I got over 100 pages in when I decided it needed a complete rework (this is after several years of writing those pages.) So its been put aside with some fresh ideas gestating. I have *at least* a dozen other ideas, scribbled out on various pieces of scratch paper/notebooks, that are just sitting. I am an idea man, it seems. I come up with tons of ideas only a few of which make it to paper and have never finished anything in almost 10 years of sporadically writing. This book I am working on now I intend to finish and will work on nothing else until my draft is done. Even the idea for The Gadon Stone came from something I began writing when I was much younger and sat for at least 6 years in a folder collecting dust.

My deadline for the draft of The Gadon Stone is November. I intend to write the draft for my second book, a science fiction piece that I already have ideas for, during NaNoWriMo.

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lilacstarflower

I had another idea during the week; its historical fiction. I'm struggling to decide whether my NaNoWriMo should be this or a chick-lit that I have no intention of taking seriously...ever

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Tiamat10

Depends on what you mean by 'in progress' really...

I have one 117K first draft done and in desperate need of editing for nearly a year now.
I have one 60Ker that I've stalled out on.
One 4Ker that I lost interest in but might pick up some day.
And three ideas for potentials floating around upstairs. One of them will be my NaNoWriMo pick, I think, I hope, I pray.

And short stories? There's always a few of them cooking, but I see those as a break from my WIPs as opposed to being WIPs themselves.

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PSFoster

I have a non-fiction book I've been working on for the last year. I can't even get the first damn chapter right.
So I wander off to do some internet writing, a little short fiction, some research for the book.
And I spend way too much time on forums!

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