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== Anime and Manga ==
* [[CLAMP]] is this trope incarnate. Not only do they have two current manga, but also four 'incomplete' series. This doesn't include the character designing for [[Anime]] and books, nor articles and short-stories for various magazines.
** It helps that CLAMP is two teams of multiple artists.
* [[Yukiru Sugisaki]] seems to be trying to catch up with [[CLAMP]] in the "unfinished series" department.
* [[Naoko Takeuchi]] had enough of this when she was pouring all her attention into writing ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', making ''[[Codename: Sailor V]]'' take far too long to complete.
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* Im Dal Young is currently working on several projects at once, some with irregular schedules and at least one on hiatus.
* ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' is in a unique position in that its creator can suffer ADCD with it alone. Different arcs are published simultaneously and in different magazines; this can get confusing when reading the magazines as the events don't properly get put in order until the official volumes are released. The Emerald arc was put onto hiatus for a whole year, the Platinum arc went through a major [[Schedule Slip]], and the HGSS arc was horribly rushed. On the plus side, Kusaka Hidenori is allowed to make [[Orwellian Retcon|major revisions in the official volume releases]], smoothing out quite a lot of continuity kinks and expanding the plots as he does so.
** Hidenori himself notes this and wonders if anybody, much less kids, can keep up with his stories in the magazines releases.
* [[Miyabi Fujieda]] finished two mangas and is currently updating one (semi-regularly), while the remaining two have been gathering dust for literal years now.
* Masaki Tsuzuki, the creator of ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' franchise, has been accused of this trope on an entirely different level: each season so far has [[Genre Shift|fallen into a different genre]], with the creator changing story gears literally on the flight before the old genre has been fully explored.
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* While it probably will never be authoritatively confirmed or denied, some theorize that HBO ended ''[[Deadwood]]'' not so much because they ''wanted'' to cancel the show, but because creator David Milch got bored with it. Under this theory, Milch instead wanted to do his pet project, the [[Messianic Archetype|"Surfing Jesus"]] drama ''John From Cincinnati'', also for HBO, and the network decided that it would be better to let Milch create a new hit show than continue ''Deadwood'' if his heart wasn't in it. (The "new hit show" part didn't work out so well. ''John'' was canceled the day after the last episode of the first season aired.)
* Before J.J. Abrams, there was Glen A. Larson - he often had multiple shows on air in the '70s and '80s (most notably with ''[[The Fall Guy (TV series)|The Fall Guy]]'' and ''[[Knight Rider]]'' running concurrently in the 1980s), but he generally left his shows early on to launch new projects, [[Quincy|not always of his own volition]].
* Chris Carter of ''[[The X-Files]]'' fame ran four shows in the late 90's and early 2000's. ''[[The X-Files]]'' was by far the most successful, but he also had ''Millenium'', ''[[The Lone Gunmen]]'', and ''[[Harsh Realm]]'', the latter two not even running a full season.
* [[Stephen J. Cannell]] had numerous shows on the air at once through the '80s (example: ''[[The A-Team]]'', ''Hardcastle And McCormick'' and ''Riptide''<ref> and ''Hunter'', but he didn't create that one</ref> all ran in the 1984-85 season), somewhat less so in the '90s.
* [[David E. Kelley]]. [[wikipedia:David E. Kelley#Timeline|Just... David E. Kelley.]]
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* Dante DeCaro has been solo, with Johnny and the Moon, in [[Hot Hot Heat]] and a member of Wolf Parade, among other projects.
* Jon Foreman from Switchfoot is currently juggling his role as lead singer/songwriter for the band with the side project Fiction Family, and at some point in between all that, he founded time to release four EPs as a solo artist. The two year-period between late 2007 and late 2009 saw the release of at least fifty songs between these three projects.
* Les Claypool of Primus moonlights in Oysterhead (with [[Phish]] guitarist Trey Anastasio and drummer Stewart Copeland of [[The Police]]), Les Claypool's Holy Mackerel, ''drums'' in the fictionalized jam band Electric Apricot and does solo albums. He also formed Sausage and Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains (with guitarist [[Buckethead]], keyboardist Bernie Worrell of [[George Clinton|Parliament-Funkadelic]] and drummer Brain), and occasionally produces acts. As if all of this wasn't enough, he shows up as a session musician on about ten albums a year, often uncredited.
* Ashley Monroe. She's a solo artist. Now she's working with the Raconteurs. Now she's writing songs for other people. Now she's in the Pistol Annies with [[Miranda Lambert]] and Angaleena Presley. Make up your mind!
* Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Because of his reputation as a bassist, he is constantly in demand to play on other people's records, to the point where he's almost as known for his session work as for the band.
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== Video Games ==
* Video game designer Suda 51 of Grasshopper Manufacture may be suffering from this. Not only is he is collaborating with [[Hideo Kojima]] on a ''[[Snatcher]]'' radio show, but he is also developing a Kafkaesque game for the Playstation 3 called Kurayami, as well as porting [[The Silver Case]] and Ward 25 to the Nintendo DS.
* The high-definition remakes of ''[[Silent Hill 2]]'' and ''[[Silent Hill 3]]'' were so riddled with bugs, glitches and graphical issues that, for a time, Amazon refused to sell it in light of the fan outrage. The newest game in the series, ''[[Silent Hill: Downpour]]'' came out almost at the same time, and two other ''[[Silent Hill]]'' projects were in the works as well, leading many to believe that the creative teams involved were producing unrefined products due to being overloaded, though each project did have different teams.
** Not to mention one of the Guild 01 games for Level-5.
* Go to a indie game design forum and be enlightened.
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* Despite having an already tremendously [[Schedule Slip|behind schedule]] main comic in ''[[VG Cats]]'', Scott Ramsoomair also has a ''[[Pokémon]]'' comic and does the official ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'' webcomic. ... Neither of which seem to be updating much.
* [http://www.krisstraub.com Kris Straub], man. Just Kris Straub. In addition to various musical side projects, one-offs for posters and t-shirts, being one of the four Webcomics Weekly panelists, and sometimes having a day job...
** He used to do ''[[Checkerboard Nightmare]]'' 3 days a week. Then, he started doing ''[[Starslip Crisis]]'' every weekday and ''Checkerboard Nightmare'' ceased regular updates a few months later.
** He started the Starslip side project "Alterverse War," a [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]] involving any sci-fi webcomic that wanted to participate, but has put it on hold indefinitely.
** Some years later, ''Starslip Extra'' started, a simple gag strip that ran once a week, trying to recapture the earlier flavor before Starslip got bogged down in plot. Around the same time, Straub launched another comic, ''chainsawsuit'', originally updating 3 days a week.
*** A few months later, he started yet another comic, ''F Chords'', running two days a week, and very soon upgraded chainsawsuit to daily and F Chords to three days a week, bringing his total to 13 strips each week, along with video commentary on reruns of ''Checkerboard''. That only lasted a few months, with F Chords put on hiatus for two years and the commentary indefinitely.
** Around the time he moved into the [[Penny Arcade]] offices, he restarted Blamimations with Scott Kurtz for PATV.
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* [[Magiversity|Benny Reyes]] has this problem, his comics include ''[http://www.drunkduck.com/Magiversity/ Magiversity]'', ''[http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Lost_Battle_Fortress/index.php Zephyr The Lost Battle Fortress]'', ''[http://www.drunkduck.com/Hypershooter/index.php Hypershooter]'', ''[http://www.drunkduck.com/Astronomalies/ Astronomolies]'', & the adult comics ''[http://www.drunkduck.com/Pr0nCrest/index.php Pr0nCrest]'', ''[http://www.drunkduck.com/B4_Pr0nCrest/index.php B4 Pr0nCrest]'', ''[http://www.drunkduck.com/Sexy_Bouncin_Oppai_Troopers/index.php Sexy Bouncin' Oppai Troopers]'' & the collaborative effort ''[http://www.drunkduck.com/Pr0nCrest_AltAgain/index.php Pr0nCrest Alt-Again]'' & he has plans for, at least, one other comic.
* J. X. Gans has ''[http://www.drunkduck.com/GansWorks/index.php GansWorks]'' (which shows off a number of aborted comics), ''[http://www.drunkduck.com/PostHuman/index.php PostHuman]'', ''[http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Bees_Knees/index.php The Bees Knees]'', ''[http://www.drunkduck.com/PowerTrip/index.php Power Trip]'', ''[http://www.drunkduck.com/Misfits_of_Mischief/index.php Misfits Of Mischief]'' the adult comic ''[http://www.drunkduck.com/Stella_and_Celeste/index.php Stella & Celeste]'' as well as a couple of accounts he created, then deleted.
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* [http://www.instantclassic.net/ Brian Carroll] of ''[[Instant Classic]]'' fame usually has eight or so projects going at once (which he regularly makes fun of using the marquee on his site). Past projects have included a comic called Trumpet Airlines that only featured three or so strips, GRAMPAA (a site against the MPAA), Studio Litchfield (a spinoff of ''[[Instant Classic]]''), The Millatreuese Project (a series of short quick one-person films), and several independent film ventures. Currently he's producing ''[[Instant Classic]]'', [http://www.genrezvous.com Genrezvous Point], the Instant Classic Editorial, The Rapscallions (a reboot of his earlier comic [http://www.instantclassic.net/pirates/ Pirates]), a journal comic called [http://www.lobsterback.com/fstopblues/ F-Stop Blues], and a feature film. At least Carroll acknowledges it.
* Bill Holbrook manages to keep three comics (''[[Kevin and Kell]]'', ''Safe Havens'', and ''On the Fastrack'') going simultaneously, the latter two being syndicated. Unusually for this trope, he seems nearly immune to [[Schedule Slip]].
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** And he just started a [http://www.lancescomicworld.com/profiles/blogs/jump-on-witchblade-origins review column] that's going to update twice weekly. ''And'' he's still updating everything with regularity.
* Bobby Crosby has a good half-dozen webcomics unfinished, each of which see maybe three updates in a year. These updates seem to coincide him trying to push the story to a movie or media publisher; one gets the impression they're little more than vehicles for a screenwriting career he can't seem to get off the ground. One especially cynical may wonder if his inability to keep any of his web-works on a consistent schedule might be negatively affecting these attempts.
* Nepath, creator of webcomics [http://www.drunkduck.com/Energize/ Energize] – he's currently working on Energize, it's spin-off [http://www.drunkduck.com/Saroth/ Saroth] and another comics, [http://www.drunkduck.com/Fearless/ Fearless], still has unfinished crossover between Energize and [[Dasien]], is a member of [[Crossoverkill]] creative staff, has been pretty much a head of [[Heroes Unite]] creative team and now will be it's artist. For some time Energize, Fearless and Saroth were updating in a system - two of them were on extended hiauts while he was updating another chapter of third, but currently Fealess is on extended hiauts until he'll get over with his other comics.
* While not to extreme, humon [http://humon.deviantart.com/\] can suffer from this from time to time. Scandinavia and the World is easily her most popular project, and she will sometimes focus on those for long periods of time, often to the chagrin to fans of her second-most-popular work Niels. ''Love and Tentacles'' fans are also very disappointed as she apparently has no ideas for it, and it has been long dormant. Occasionally [[Sat W]] fans will become annoyed when she focuses on Niels or a non-comic project (like her recent fantasy species).
* ''[[City of Reality]]'' author Ian Sampson confessed to it [http://cityofreality.com/2010/11/01/08-07-thefutureagain/ here], after a long bout with [[Schedule Slip]].
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* Ross Scott of ''Accursed Farms'' fame. Not perhaps, because he has so many irons in the fire, but because he's working in a medium that requires an unholy amount of time and effort. (And he presumably has a day job as well.) Fans of ''[[Freeman's Mind]]'' who have been waiting a long time for the next installment to come out can't help but tap their feet and check their watches while they watch the Progress Chart for ''Civil Protection'' slowly inch towards completion at a glacial pace. (Again, it's a work-heavy, time-heavy medium...)
* Shadyvox has shown shades of this. With [[Yugioh GX Abridged]] slowing down to a crawl, he's made two other Abridge series... none of which made it past the pilot so far.
* [[Jesu Otaku]]. Let's see, she reviews anime, is making a retrospective on all the [[Digimon]] anime, dubs [[Anime Theme Song|Anime Theme Songs]], is analyzing the [[Trigun]] anime, has ''another'' job reviewing even ''more'' anime on [[Anime News Network]] and oh yeah, is currently working on ''a [[Radio Drama]] adaptation on the ENTIRE [[Fruits Basket]] manga'' [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|(also, she works at a theater)]].
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