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Y'know, I think my knack for it came from working tech support for an internet company just when at-home-net was becoming The Thing. I learned to disengage the part of my brain that was troubleshooting, because 75% of the problems were fixable by rote, so I could do other things while I was talking to people on the phone. I was doing huge amounts of online role play at the time, as well, so a part of my mind was frequently working on something creative. I could pretty much talk about one thing and think/type about another. I could literally carry on two or three spoken conversations at the same time, listening to what people were saying and shuttling back and forth to respond (I did that one day at work and slowly all the conversations died as the people I was talking to realized what I was doing and gaped at me). I really kind of think the ability to work on multiple projects and switch from one to another is an extrapolation of that.

Also, revisions or copy edits cropping up just when I'm utterly sick of a project makes for a nice change, so perhaps that also helps keep my mind fresh in a way. Gotta say, though, after last year, the last 3 months have been comparatively very, very slow for writing, and I'm grateful for it. :)