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   John F. Eldredge to Dirk van den Boom   
   Re: How do you prioritize your projects?   
   26 May 14 16:41:10   
   
   From: john@jfeldredge.com   
      
   On Sat, 24 May 2014 17:18:22 +0200, Dirk van den Boom wrote:   
      
   > Am 23.05.2014 20:26, schrieb J.Pascal:   
   >> So... maybe I'm the only person ever who finds it hard to stick to one   
   >> thing to the end,   
   >   
   >   
   > Me too. That's why I normally write three novels in parallel, so that I   
   > can switch from one to the other if I'm a bit bored with a particular   
   > scene or idea. With that, I work consistently every day, and it's not   
   > rotating, it's doing all three at the same day, but in different   
   > sequence and at different times of the day. Has been very helpful in   
   > accomplishing an average of 7-8 novels a year.   
      
   Do you ever find that you have absentmindedly written a scene in one   
   manuscript that should have been placed in another?  It seems like it   
   would be easy to lose track of which plot you are working on at the time.   
      
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