In today's reading Fred White talks about how a writer who has several projects can stimulate the creative juices and overcome writer's block by possibly linking two or more of the projects. The example he gave was a novel set in Washington DC and an essay on the history of the Pentagon. A writer might integrate some of the history of the Pentagon into the novel. According to White by regularly making connections between projects can add life to projects where you may be experiencing writer's block or the project which has lost its momentum.
FOR FURTHER REFLECTION:
Connecting projects can "replenish concentration" and may even lead to those serendipity moments in which ideas generated from one project can "shed unexpected light on the other one." Some writers integrate parts of one project into another just to see what happens to story dynamics.
Today's "TRY THIS" assignment:
Spend the next couple of weeks working on at least two writing projects at once just ot see how this emthod of project connecting affects your productivity. Does it make you more energetic? Does the work you do on one project shed light on the other?
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