What do YOU do when you are done with a publishing project?

[tensen]

Are most of you people posting on this thread full-time writers? If not, when do you find the time to do your writing? When I get home after my advertising job, I'm so tired that I usually fall asleep before I get started writing.

Full-time writers? Nah.
In my case I know you need to specify that better. Are you looking for when we have time for the writing? Or when we actually do it?
Since for me.. the most frequent writing gets done when I do not have time alloted for it... idea pops up and suddenly I'm typing out several thousand words of gaming material... intersperced with the purchase order request I was making for the next batch of computer hardware... or the technical specs I was working on.
When I actually set aside several hours to work on something I tend to stare blankly at the screen until probably 15 minutes remain, and the ideas might flow at that moment.
Heck I learned to keep a notepad next to my bed.. so when I wake up in the middle of the night with an idea I can just start writing away.

 

[Vigilance]

For me, as someone who does this relatively full-time, the end of a project is the *busiest* most stressful time.

I am wrapping manuscript A), responding to playtest suggestions and publusher Q&A while getting up to steam on manuscript B).

Considering that there is always a C) and D) lurking that I am riding shotgun on and providing guidance to but not writing (I did this gig on Modern Backdrops and BNG: In Her Majesty's Service for example) that makes things extra special.

So for the the "relaxation" time is when I am in the groove on a book and can focus just on it. The beginning and end are crunch times.

Chuck

 

[jmucchiello]

Someone once said, "Artwork is never finished; it is abandoned by the artist."

Now, I'm not saying I'm an artist, but I never feel that anything I write is finished. There just comes a point where I see that I need to abandon it and move on to something else.

So I never reach the state where I can say "I'm done." So I cannot answer the question meaningfully. Bet if I could I'd have more books out there by now. Sometimes I think it's a form of madness. There are two-pagers I've considered going back to and updating.

Closing the skullcap....

 

[mroberon1972]

Someone once said, "Artwork is never finished; it is abandoned by the artist."

Now, I'm not saying I'm an artist, but I never feel that anything I write is finished. There just comes a point where I see that I need to abandon it and move on to something else.

So I never reach the state where I can say "I'm done." So I cannot answer the question meaningfully. Bet if I could I'd have more books out there by now. Sometimes I think it's a form of madness. There are two-pagers I've considered going back to and updating.

Closing the skullcap....

I always heard it takes two people to make a great work of art: The artist and the guy with the gun to shoot him before he improves it to death...

I need a guy with a gun too...