I took on three resolutions on January 1 of this year that are daily tasks. One of them is to write something every day. Work stuff/grading comments/emails don't count. Blogs, yes. Stories, yes. Poems, yes. Narrative essays, argumentative essays, research papers, yes. Sure. Whatevs.
So I've been doing that and making lots of progress on my NaNo novel from November.
But yesterday, while I was working on another daily task, inspiration struck. I finished what I was doing, opened my laptop, and started a new story before I could forget my idea. It's an epistolary story. The characters, concept, setting, and main conflict all sprang seamlessly into existence. I don't know where it's ultimately going to go, but I'm terribly intrigued.
And I'm slightly worried about getting distracted from my novel. But maybe it's a good thing? If I'm writing every day, maybe it will be really good to have major projects to switch between while my ideas are brewing?
Anyone else have this worry of maybe having too many works in progress? Is it like yarn where there's a certain point where you shouldn't allow yourself to buy any more until you've knitted up what you have? How many current projects is a reasonable number of projects?
A) Somewhere between 1 and 10?
B) A writer is only limited by the space on her hard drive?
C) When you start forgetting who or what you're writing about, stop adding new projects?
Tell me!
A
P. S. I love the Don't Break the Chain printable (free!) calendars designed by Karen Kavett. My resolutions would be short-lived without this kind of accountability.
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