Monday, August 20, 2007

Switching horses in the middle of the road....

There's nothing like the feeling of juggling projects. (see last post) And nothing kills productivity like the switch from one project to another. Humans aren't really great multitaskers. If you're at work and you check your e-mail, it takes you fifteen minutes to get back in groove of whatever you were doing before that. Fifteen minutes.

Yes. There is research.

How much more so with a project? I'm a big fan of grabbing it and sticking with it till it's done. When that doesn't work... well, you'll have a week of refamiliarizing yourself with characters and places, the plot, etc. A week to get back into the atmosphere so you can write properly. A week.

Rush that and you'll regret it.

Trust me. :)

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