: Re: How can I deal with an overload of writing projects? I'm formulating a habit where I create too many writing projects. I'll work on a project, and things will go fine, until I have this incredible

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This is about personal organisation - actually nothing to do with writing per se, but it does, I understand, affect writing significantly.

I would suggest that you identify the urgency of your various projects, or - if you have no deadlines - the closeness to completion. Then work on the most urgent or nearest complete. Work on it until you have completed it.

In the meantime, if you have thoughts and ideas for you other projects, which does happen, then write them down, maybe even take half an hour to write a piece of it, and then put it aside, and work on your primary piece. that is about discipline, and it is hard.

BTW, I work in IT, and I have some of the same issues in personal time management here.

The other approach that might work for you is to define a "working day" - say 8 hours. Commit that you will put 8 hours work into your primary project each day. ( if your working day is only 2 hours, then 2 hours it is, but whatever ). The rest of the time you can spend on other projects, or reading writers.se or whatever. But putting in the hours on your primary project means that you will get through it - and then the next one, and the next one.

In the end it is about discipline and a work ethic, both of which are very hard to achieve. But if people can see that you are a disciplined writer, and so get work out on time, then you will receive more work to do, which is a good thing. No really.

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