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hey guys and Kate welcome back to my channel and today I'm going to be talking about how I work on multiple stories at once and often times even writing multiple stories per day this was actually a request I got from this desk a couple of weeks ago and then I've had a couple people follow up with wanting more information especially after I showed on my spreadsheet and my tracking my words for 30 days video which I am still doing and I'm really excited to start seeing like quarterly and yearly things if I keep it up so that's gonna be fun but anyways time to talk about how I work on multiple projects at the same time as always this is how I multitask in multiple projects and what works for me may not work for you guys but it's definitely something to try especially as NaNoWriMo approaches and you might have different works in different stages like you want to start working on a totally new project to be fully in the spirit of NaNoWriMo but also you just finished this other project or you're not totally done with this project that you've been working on for a year I'm here for you I have two personal basic ground rules and then a bonus unofficial rule I mean they're all unofficial but you guys are gonna get my point rule number one no stories in the same genre told from the same point of view I write in a bunch of different genres usually young adult in all of its various forms mystery and then now romance so this rule is really important to me if I'm working on two young adult stories they both can't be in third person does that make sense like I can be writing a mystery in third person and I can be ready a young adult in third person but I need that genre distinction but why you might be asking to keep the voices from blending it's as simple as that I think tonally voices can be so different even from novels within the same genre but when you're working on projects from the exact same genre but the exact same narrative point of view like you're just asking for trouble rule number two no same genre stories in the same stage of writing say that sometimes best stains on a story same stage of writing so even if they don't violate the first rule like I have one why a that's in third person and one why a that's in the first person I still wouldn't start them at the same time I wouldn't allow them to be in the same draft stage one of them has always got to be above the other but why for me this cuts on the bleed-over between ideas especially because I consider myself to be like a discovery writer at least in the zero draft stage and even well on to the first or second sometimes if you just don't want to have these competing ideas and the same genres especially if you're at that discovery stage and that takes me to my unofficial rule number three which is priorities I like working on multiple stories at one time because whenever I sit down at that keyboard I can just work on whichever one I find the most inspiration for and when I've exhausted all of my current ideas are like I'm kind of feeling something different I can switch to this other story and I truly believe that that inspiration will feed itself even if they're totally different genres even if they're told in totally different point of views even if I mean I don't write poetry but if one was a poem like I was writing a freaking long-form poem and you know a freaking short story I still feel like the inspiration would feed itself they would feed into each other switching between projects even within the same day you know like helps keep my creative juices flowing and it helps me write longer and it allows me to enjoy the different storytelling methods but at some point you do have to prioritize for me this is usually when I have a story in the later stage of the drafting process and talking like draft three or four or five at the point where I'm getting beta readers feedback when I promised someone a specific date that I'd like them to be available so that I can send them my story or like a time period or whatever I need to make sure that my story is ready by that date I do not love my beta readers waiting on me and I do schedule this ahead because schedule is freaking hard y'all so it's never gonna be pushed back by me which means that if I've promised this story to someone else if it is time for that beta reader to get it I'm going to work on that first every single day that is my main priority although the other stories can happen later in the day when I've made sufficient progress on this story that's about to go out and there is something nice about having a concrete deadline when you're in those later stages there's nothing quite like a deadline to both terrify you and propel you forward and now I that I work on that project first because I like to wake up in the morning and that is when I get most of my creative writing done is that the first thing when I wake out that first project that will be my most important project because that's how my brain works if you work best at night sake that story for a night or if you need like a warmup period for your brain to really get the words flowing or whatever go ahead and save that project for the time where you think that you will be doing your best work so in that regard it's kind of just like know yourself or get to know yourself try out different things in order to figure out what time works best for you anyway so you get my point the main rules are down so let's move on to the extra tips I don't know that the idea of writing multiple projects scares people so much as having to juggle them all because sometimes if you're really in the flow for this one story for weeks at a time which I have had happen like I've talked about that in recent videos I'll link that up above and down below and I was just obsessed with one story so I'm not saying you have to do this every single day but the key here was not to forget my other stories in the mean time and the way that I personally do that is that I have a spreadsheet here's the thing it tracks all of my projects and not just the ones that I'm like kind of sort of working on or the ones that are in the very late stages no I'm talking about even just ideas I have little morsels like a one-sentence that at the time I was like that's fascinating but I don't have time to explore it right now so I jotted it down in my phone I moved that over into a tab in my spreadsheet and I'm like this is just where I want to keep my good ideas I love keeping track of it this way one because I've talked about on this channel before I have terrible memory so I have to write it down unless you know the muses would just suck it away from me I would never see that idea so tip number one step number one and like organizing all of your ideas and your multiple projects is write them all down have a spreadsheet have something and then have some kind of highlight system or bullet point system or however you want to do it to signify to yourself that these are in certain kind of stages so for me if it's just an idea I have that in a right tap but the second that becomes more than just an idea like let's say I wrote a chapter for it or I wrote a basic outline for it or whatever that moves into another section it's denoted a little bit differently and if you're like me you can even have a little section for projects that are on hold my personal opinion is that everyone should wait two months between when they finish a draft to start a new version of that draft not everyone likes to do it this way but that is my very general advice I give people and that I follow myself so when I do that I change the color to be like it is on hold and then I put a little - and I put what draft number it's on so in my mind I don't forget that I have that story I don't forget that it's in like this waiting process and that's actually how I came up with the story that I'm going to be writing or rewriting for NaNoWriMo this year I was looking at things I was kind of feeling I wanted to have a project that I hadn't been currently working on so it really felt new but not a whole new draft and I saw that one and I was instantly hit with ooh I have to write that it had been on hold for over a year but I got that file the other thing here is that I love organization is this too much you can be the judge do not worry if this is not your thing I just think it's a great way to keep track of everything if you're better able to like keep it all in your mind then kudos to you and teach me your ways I don't know that it would ever actually absorb but I'd love to hear about it and tip number three is never think that you're actually stuck in a writing rut if that makes sense I do believe that there's such a thing as writer's block for a particular story if you really just don't know how to work out a plot problem or like you can't figure out a character's motivation and so when you look at that document you're like I just don't know how to write this totally understand that but but if you're working on multiple projects at a time this is a great way to like cast that to the side don't let it bother you and again because I personally think that you know projects can feed into each other and help inspire the other just work on something new look at your little spreadsheet or whatever document look at your little list of ideas but you might have stored on your phone or something and be like you know what I'm gonna try writing this one there you go now you're kind of working on multiple projects at one time those are all of my tips I do want to answer some questions but I think I already touched on but do I write on every story every day no do I write in multiple stories every day always no sometimes I only work on one story some days all of my words something some weeks all my words are dedicated to this one project again I had that weird time where I was obsessed with the story so yeah still don't understand still don't understand but I think that on average I work on at least two stories per day so the other little bonus tip is if that's something you kind of want to introduce but you're not sure how I like to get up and change my scenery I think this is good for a lot of things writing related but definitely for like get up go on a walk when you come back write in a different story than the one you were writing on before or if you're at university or college or something and you have time between different classes go ahead and like make time between class one into this project time between class three and four this story but let me also say that the times where I was writing wait less when I was working my corporate job or even when I was in college what I would do wasn't so much writing in multiple stories a day as I would write in project one and I would write it from beginning to end then I would put it on a hold and in those two months that I personally think you should wait in that two month period I will work on the next story and so then when I'm ready for this one again I'll bring it back so you're working on multiple projects in a year and I I still count that I still think that's working on multiple projects and I think again I think that's great y'all I'm such a big proponent on working on multiple stories and that's just because it works for me and I think it's fun and it's advice that I give people if they're stuck in another story write something else try something else out you literally never know what's going to happen or what from this idea you realize actually works way better in this story and vice versa so yeah clearly I'm a very big fan of there's nothing all right that's all the tips and advice and that kind of like how I do it that I have please comment down below and let me know if you work on multiple projects at once and if you do do you write them in the same day week month or do you do that kind of like alternating method and if you do please also comment down below your tips for working on multiple projects and what I think we could like crowdsource this and we can all brainstorm new ideas together and finally if you haven't worked on multiple projects at once have you ever wanted to or do you really have like a single dedicated focus to one project at a time or like some of my friends have you always just had this one story and that is like your story and the one you want to tell so you're just kind of waiting for other projects until you're able to tell this story fully thank you guys so much for watching and thank you guys again for requesting this video and I will see you all with the new one very soon bye especially after I show kill me but when you're doing the exact same genre with the exacts but when you're working on but when you're working on projects would be oh my gosh rule number two no same genres and the stains stains what