Kevin L. O'Brien
I actually have a large number of projects I work on more or less simultaneously. I have adult attention deficit disorder (AADD), and as a result I find it difficult to work on one project at a time to the exclusion of everything else; I eventually become bored and move on to something new.
In the past, that usually resulted in projects being abandoned, because I believed I had to finish one before starting on another. However, I have since realized that I don't need to do that, and now I work on whatever project holds my interest the most, and when I become bored I move on to another, then I come back to my old projects when I become bored with the new ones, and so on.
The result has been that I have completed more projects in the past five years than in the entire 30 I've been writing. It may take longer for me to complete a project this way, but I do complete more because several usually get completed at almost the same time.
In the past, that usually resulted in projects being abandoned, because I believed I had to finish one before starting on another. However, I have since realized that I don't need to do that, and now I work on whatever project holds my interest the most, and when I become bored I move on to another, then I come back to my old projects when I become bored with the new ones, and so on.
The result has been that I have completed more projects in the past five years than in the entire 30 I've been writing. It may take longer for me to complete a project this way, but I do complete more because several usually get completed at almost the same time.
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