Salon post: February 23

[jenett]

Welcome to this week's salon post!

Topic of the week
How do you deal with really big projects? What helps you make progress on them? What big things are you working on right now?

I am working on a massive catalog project at work, which is... well. I am on page 6 of a stack of paper nearly an inch thick and double sided. Though it is going faster as I get familiar with it.

Fortunately, it does not use the same bits of brain as writing does, so I have been making steady progress on that front.

What I've been up to:
See above. I have caught up on The Good Place (no spoilers in comments, please, for people who haven't seen it yet, but there's a new DW community for such things if you haven't found it yet, the_good_place) I saw Black Panther last weekend and loved it, and I am in the midst of reading amusing things.


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Comments

[alexseanchai]

omfg AUGH.

Novel working title Stagecraft is...getting longer? very slowly... I still don't know where 3/4 of the political dominoes are standing so I have no idea where to start knocking them over!

[silveradept]

I often find that if I can make a big task turn into a sequence of smaller tasks, it becomes less intimidating. And if I can make that big task into a sequence of disconnected smaller tasks, so that they can be done in any order, that makes it even better, because it lets me do the tasks I have brain and interest for instead of the ones I don't. And eventually, I'll have enough of it done that I'll just decide to finish it so that it doesn't end up taking up space in my brain.