There are two schools of thought about the writing process.
1)Start writing a project, and don't stop obsessing with it until it's finished.
2)Every now and then, step back, walk away, work on something else, then come back to it.
I subscribe to the latter. I personally find it excurciatingly painful to concentrate on one thing for months, weeks, days, or sometimes even hours, at a time. Have I ever been diagnosed with ADD? No. However, that does not preclude me from having it!
I find it refreshing to have several projects working at one time. In fact, sometimes ideas that don't float for one may work for another. But there is a danger: if you don't have some discipline to shift focus back to where, and when, it needs to be, you could end up with a hard drive full of unfinished novels, screenplays and poetry. (see Whig's hardrive for reference!).
On that note, while we have been struggling through our Vanishing Moon story, one of our writers, Chris Valin, has had a book published! While I haven't read it yet (waiting for Kindle), it looks like a piece of historical drama that everyone could love...and, it's about one of his ancestors!
If you like a good read, or want a gift idea for Christmas, go to Amazon.com and look up FORTUNE'S FAVORITE: Sir Charles Douglas and the Breaking of the Line by Christopher Valin.
1)Start writing a project, and don't stop obsessing with it until it's finished.
2)Every now and then, step back, walk away, work on something else, then come back to it.
I subscribe to the latter. I personally find it excurciatingly painful to concentrate on one thing for months, weeks, days, or sometimes even hours, at a time. Have I ever been diagnosed with ADD? No. However, that does not preclude me from having it!
I find it refreshing to have several projects working at one time. In fact, sometimes ideas that don't float for one may work for another. But there is a danger: if you don't have some discipline to shift focus back to where, and when, it needs to be, you could end up with a hard drive full of unfinished novels, screenplays and poetry. (see Whig's hardrive for reference!).
On that note, while we have been struggling through our Vanishing Moon story, one of our writers, Chris Valin, has had a book published! While I haven't read it yet (waiting for Kindle), it looks like a piece of historical drama that everyone could love...and, it's about one of his ancestors!
If you like a good read, or want a gift idea for Christmas, go to Amazon.com and look up FORTUNE'S FAVORITE: Sir Charles Douglas and the Breaking of the Line by Christopher Valin.
