Projects

So right now, I'm juggling projects.  I don't normally do this.  It's quite strange.  Normally, I'll have one project that I work on, and then when it's finished, I move on to the next project.  Right now, I have three novels in the works.  Two have rough drafts, one is unfinished.  A couple weeks ago, I had two scripts on top of that.  This is so weird.

But really.  There's some good points and some bad points to having multiple projects, at least for me.  Because I'm such a happy person (:P) let's start with some good.

I do like how I can choose which project I want to work on.  If I ever just don't want to do one project, I can go to a different project and still be productive, even if it just isn't flowing with the first project.  For instance, if I want to edit rather than write, I can go to one of my completed novels, whereas if I want to write (by write I do mean rough draft, even though writing includes editing) I can go to my unfinished novel.  The con here is that there's potential for me to never go back to a project.  I might start and never finish.

The other side of this con isn't so much that I'll never finish, but it'll take me so long to get back to a project that I'll have forgotten how the story goes.  I've already committed this crime - my unfinished novel is from last August, and I just finished reading what I've already written so that I could remember what the heck is going on.  There's a ton that I'd forgotten.

The good part about going back to read is that I surprised myself - my very first draft of my very first novel was HORRID.  Worst thing I have ever read.  And that includes the excepts of very awful self-pubbed books I've seen.  (In no way am I bashing self publishing - it just happens to allow a lot of books that should never have been published to be published anyway.)  I suppose I might be slightly biased because it was my work as well, but anyway.  This currently unfinished project was much easier to read, and while it's definitely not polished or anything - since it is a first draft - it wasn't unsalvageable.

(Firefox and google are telling me that unsalvageable doesn't mean what I think it means - I mean the opposite of salvageable.  Gosh Google.)

Anyway, on a different note, June is coming up, and that means Camp NaNoWriMo!  If you didn't get the memo, it's changed months from last year, so instead of July and August, it's June and August now.  If you have no idea what I'm talking about, Camp NaNoWriMo is the same thing as NaNoWriMo except in summer (or I suppose it could be winter depending on where you are in the world - I get confused where exactly that is).  Also, CreateSpace codes expire at the end of June from NaNoWriMo 2011, so if you have a code but haven't used it yet...well, should probably get cracking - that's a reminder to me too.

I want to have my unfinished novel finished and at least partially edited by the beginning of Camp NaNo in June - let's see how much I can do in the next two weeks, shall we?

Do you usually have one or many projects at any given time?  (Notice there is no option for no projects, you lazy writer folk.  :D)

Why do you prefer your answer to previous question?

And are you doing Camp NaNoWriMo this year?