INK SLINGER HAS MOVED

This blog has moved to Cheryl Murphy Writes: Chronicles of an Ink Slinger. It became too hard to mirror to this site. Lots of glitches and such. I don't do much to maintain this site anymore so if you're wondering why things might look a bit wonky, that would be it.

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Friday, April 8, 2011

Multiple projects rock.


I always thought people were crazy to have more than one wip going at a time.  I'm discovering the error of my thinking.

I'm having trouble finishing my wip.  It's not that I don't care about the story or that I can't write it or that I've lost it.  I just got bored with it because I already know it.  I don't know if that happens to other people and I honestly didn't know it would happen to me.  But it did.  Color me shocked.

One of my crit partners decided to run a prompt.  I wanted to do something in first person (which I don't like so much) and I wanted to explore a morally ambiguous character.  I never planned on it being anything more than an exercise so I picked something easy to work morally ambiguous into.  Vampires. Lo and behold, it wouldn't stop.  So it looks like I have a new wip.

It's working out well.  I get bored with one, I move to the other.  I'm liking this so far.

Does anyone else get bored?  What do you do about that?  And how do you feel about multiple wips?