How many projects (WIPs) are you working on?

As to me, I am figuring out how to effectively market the book I already wrote and am in progress with my second murder mystery, Hookers and Ruin. I have other ideas in mind, but they are just staying in my head for now.

One

two or three. Two of those are the first two in a tentative fantasy series with all the cliche knights and crap. The other is about World War Two based loosely off Freddie Oversteegen. If I do more than two I would never get anything done.

Currently one is cooling on the windowsill after being drafted and another is just shy of 20 thousand in. I'm a little tenuous about this one, it's not a great first draft so far but that's what first drafts are for right?

Lcarver said:

I'm a little tenuous about this one, it's not a great first draft so far but that's what first drafts are for right?

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Yeah i feel your struggle. I'm working on two WIPs which have been going pretty well just have been a process. It might not be the last draft but works have found their voice lol finally.

I'm currently working on three-ish? I have one I'm stuck on, one that I'm actively writing, and one that I'm not supposed to be actively writing but it's so much fun I can't stop myself. Also, I need to go back and edit some stuff.

Two. One that I'm getting other to look at and one that's still on the first draft. I can't imagine focusing on more than one novel in writing/editing stage. Every time I've tried that, I've ended up just working on one. Besides, if it's going to take me 1 or more years to write a novel, why be focused on something I wouldn't work on for all that time?

Besides the work I am querying, I have 4 ongoing projects projects but my main focus is on just one of them.

I am currently working on two fiction pieces, one is the first of a full length trilogy and the second is a short story. I am also trying to get ahead of myself with my blog posts. I want to get at least two weeks ahead which is proving more challenging than I expected as I am also working on a book review and some planning for a non-fiction project. I am considering putting the first fiction WIP aside for a few weeks until I get where I want with my others.