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local anon · 14d

I am curious about your project management on your own projects! To be more specific, you're working on multiple, right? How do you go about each one? Is it whatever you feel for the time? Do you set some kind of monthly goal for each separately or something else?
Your Jolanka headshot in your last ko-fi update was jaw-dropping, amazing color!

I work across multiple projects yes! I think the question may be too big to answer, or maybe the answer is too simple.

I'm a naturally organized person in that I manage my affairs very regimented (I am neurotically and compulsively into cleaning/organizing/categorizing), but I'm also very bipolar so consistent workflow has been an eternal problem I've tried and still trying to evolve into something more reliable to myself.

So basically: every project I have is very organized and very easy to bring back up and work on at any given moment. Whether or not I have the energy, focus, or creative juice to work on it is always a toss up. It actually benefits me to have multiple rather than singular because I often work in 2-4 weeks of hyper fixated bursts before I hit saturation and I have to switch gears and focus on something else.

My best system for consistency so far is whatever "gear" I'm in (like, if I'm currently in the gear to work on Gaze) then I create a quota system where I try to hit a certain production output per day before I inevitably hit a wall and have to pivot.

As a result a lot of projects I have are constantly progressing but not really publishing. A lot of it, I admit, is anxiety of getting something moving only to immediately lose momentum on it, so I've been trying to create a system where there's some kind of queue or buffer that can account for that. It's been a journey -- but even I'm getting frustrated by it so hoping to have results before 2025

(and thank you: Jolanka headshot! It was just me dicking around warming up and I wasn't really planning on finishing it but I've gotten so many lovely compliments I'll do my best now to lol)

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