Do you only do one IF project at a time or multiple? If multiple, how many? Do you think it affects your focus in any way? I’m just curious to hear your opinion. I personally thought about trying to do another project related to my first one but I’m not certain if I could focus on both and do them their full justice.
I usually have at least three projects in various states of completion at any given time. But this is probably not an effective way of doing things: you can only physically work on one thing at a time so it’s probably best to get things done before starting new things.
6-8 in mind. I work on what I’m most enthusiastic about. I consider letting a plot idea “simmer” on a back burner accumulating ideas like stew ingredients as part of the writing process.
Cape was begun before Prospero, but finished afterwards; but I didn’t work on them concurrently, I just took a break from one project to go do the other, smaller one then came back. When I’m working on something, it’s pretty much taking up all my time – I’m thinking about it when I’m not writing. So it’s hard to try and juggle two projects.
I generally aim to have one Serious Project and two or three silly / speculative / coding-toy projects going at a time. This may explain why my productivity is so dreadful.
I usually have three to four open and I go between the ones that I’m interested in working on at the time. It helps me as I like to work on multiple different ideas at once. The production is a bit slower, but as it is my hobby that does not really bother me.
I always have a few on the “burners” at any given time, so when I run into a difficult problem my subconscious can ponder it while I work on something else.
I have four at the moment. 1) Frotz. 2) Informlib6. 3) Inform6 for Unix. 4) a yet unnamed game.
Currently I have three, with one permanently on the backburner, one scrapped and one scrapped and cannibalized into another WIP.
I work best when I’m only working on one IF project - less gear-shifting.
But in practice, I have two IF projects going on right now (18 Rooms and a ChoiceScript project), plus the occasional one-off that only takes a day or two.