Managing multiple projects

Without really thinking about it, I've tended to believe that you should finish one story before you start another. Again without really thinking about it, I tended to believe that your writer's voice would become smudged, or characters mixed up if more than one project was underway at the same time. Recently I've been working on my Angel series, some animated children's books for Zero Cut Entertainment and a stand alone novel that's popped into my head.

With the stand alone, I was so excited by the images and word flows that I wanted to start immediately,but I'm not dwelling on perfect word choices or sentences. I'm simply writing the scenes as they come to me, hopefully in the correct sequence. Gaps of many thousands of words will be filled in later. I'm not sure if there are disadvantages to this approach but the advantages include not losing the ideas and not becoming frustrated at having to finish something else first.