do authors write.....

[maz.]

like 2 books at the same or just focus on one?

[Imelda]

Some write 12 at the same time. Others (like me) can only cope with one. It all depends who they are and what they're writing!

[sXe_Jinxeh]

I usually have like six or seven at a time. I know that J.K. had all 7 Potters in her head at once, not sure about actually writing them/

[Shaun]

MOST writers only write one at a time. Very few have done more. It's a rarity to have authors doing more than one project at the exact same time. Philip K. Dick wrote twelve novels in less than two years, but they were one after another, without a break. For many novels that's a more common approach.

[maz.]

thanks for the help.

[Midnight_Moon]

I have lots going on at once. So when the mood strikes me I write fantasy or modern fiction so I have a large opinion

[maz.]

All of you are great writers but me? I'm not that good.

[Midnight_Moon]

Hey don't worry. I thought I was a horrible songwriter but people who see my songs think they are great. The hard critic to impress is yourself.

[Andy]

All of you are great writers but me? I'm not that good.
Every writer is like that when they first start. Sometimes I dig up my old drafts and laugh at how silly they are. :)

Just keep practicing and learning to write better. It'll happen.

[rorygilmore]

i just sid down and write, and if there is more than one idea on my mind i write them all up. doeasn't mean they're good though :)

[lango]

I have a VERY big problem with that, I usually have about 5-6 plots at once in my head, and keep having ideas for them all BUT the one I intend on writing.
But the professional writers I guess write one project at a time because its much easier to finish one that way.

Say you have 10 projects, you write 3 pages a day, but each day you write a page from a different project. It will take you so long to get 300 pages or something on all of your 10 projects, that you might feel discouraged. Plus, if youre being paid, your editor will not like it one bit. Writing only one helps you keep it simple, and direct all your efforts in one way first.

My advice, which I do not follow (we never follow our own =/ we just screw up and hope others dont), is to write down all your ideas, or memorize them, but only actually "write" one of them first :P

[ScottyMcGee]

Oh yeah.

I write like a hundred things at once.

I vainly try to organize them.

Recently I put the ones I'm working now in this folder on my computer called "Current Writing."

But I don't think that's gonna work, because I can merely pluck out any writing I want and make it "current" by modifying it.

I do take notes.

But madness is my method.

My room is strewn with secret notes, random last-second rambles, and journals. It's a miracle that I can even find one idea.

[elainers]

Sometimes I think it helps to have more than one planned out -- if it's in a series. For me, however, I think I'd get confused and I wouldn't be able to keep the characters consistent in two (or more) different stories if writing them simultaneously.

[Mercy]

I have several story ideas in my head, always going on but I only write one at a time. I might go off and plan another story though, so I can be ready when I come to it; or if I have a perfect line for one of my other stories, I'll write it down and come back to it when I finish the one I'm working on. ^^;

[seikoXchan]

I get oodles of kadoodles of ideas poofing into my head all at once. I have to write them all down. Most of them seem good, but I just don't have the motivation to write them. [Ish isn't easily motivated. =_='']

All of you are great writers but me? I'm not that good.


Everyone's hardest critic is themself. -nods-