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Originally Posted by Democracyman
As you get older it will get more easy to focus on one project as the ability to simply imagine/dream greatly decreases with age, I find this to be true myself at age 45 I hardly spend time imagining/dreaming things, much less than in my youth.
Dan
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Hm, i don't know about that. I'm over 40 myself, and I can say unequivocally that my ability to dream and imagine has not decreased in the least.
In fact, it's gotten crazier as the more experiences that i have, the more books that i've read, the more people that i've met...it all goes into the stew pot and voila!--More ideas! More crazy dreams. More stories, more characters, more mental toys to play with.
Even with a wife and kids and a job and the typical stresses of life...my refuge has always been my imagination and my writing. Probably moreso than ever before.
But I actually do alternate between multiple novels for a variety of different reasons. For example, when I'm working on a very dark book...I sometimes want to pick myself up by working on a light comedy later that day. Or if I'm working on a strictly scifi work...then I'll want to ground myself with something like a murder mystery or a drama of some sort. Thankfully i have a lot of works in many different genres that I can go to.