- question to the writers

[erastes]

::Question::

When you've finished a piece of work (I'm talking mainly novel
length, because I know how I cope with short stories) how do you cope
with juggling?

What I'm trying to say is: I've finished Transgressions, but it's in
nowhere NEAR a good enough state to go out anywhere, and needs not
only editing and polishing but whole new chunks added in. However,
I've started Junction X. So how do you guys cope with the mechanical
needs of an older work, getting it reading for agent's queries or
publishers, whilst still keeping the creative juices working and
driving forward a new work?

Do you just work on the older one, or do you dabble with short stories
or do you do like me, and try and do it all at once?

Comments

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

All at once

I have my schedule.
I open all the pieces I'm working on.
15 minutes each, unless inspiration strikes hard and hot.
Then I do another hour in the afternoon.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I'm very impressed! However I'm sure if I tried that, I'd have English Oxford schoolboys firing muskets and civil war boys listening to the Beatles and then where would I be?

ROFLS!