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>Just place your projects under quicklisp's "local projects" folder and then (ql:quickload) your project using its asd (system) name.
At first, I didn't like the thought of doing my development in ~/quicklisp/local-projects/ because I have a pre-existing directory layout for projects that I like. However, I found that creating a symlink in ~/quicklisp/local-projects/ to my project was sufficient.
cd ~/quicklisp/local-projects
ln -s ~/src/vern.cc/gg/example
# Now I don't have to compile example.asd to (ql:quickload :example).
Thanks for the tip.