Making Myself Obsolete

BREATHE!

So T and I have almost TEN active projects. There is literally no way I can keep them all in my conscious mind. But as said, the chess grandmaster playing a dozen games doesn’t actually “remember” all twelve. He rotates between them, analyzing the positions, the patterns. He then decides what to do next, and moves to the next game.

I have to operate much like this, rotating between, say, one-two different projects a day.

What do I have to do?

1. Read the outline of the project, to remind myself of the overall pattern.
2. Note any specific questions to answer left in the notes from the last time I worked on it. Questions are GREAT to pull you back in. For instance: “what does he really want in this scene?” or “what is the “charge” at the beginning of the scene? What does it need to be at the end of the scene?” NOTE: any scene that ends with the same charge with which it began (not “positive to negative”, “negative to positive”, or more/less intense in one direction or the other) is wasted paper.
3. Where am I on the Hero’s Journey? What is the next major step coming up?
4. Where is the lead character in terms of the Chakras? Where are their wounds? What are they trying to heal or grow? What pains do they seek to avoid, what pleasures do they seek to gain?
5. Write 1–6 pages on this project. Just fiddling with the outline or correcting/polishing past text doesn’t count. If there is literally nothing I…