Pick a project, any project...

[catherineldf]

so I have 3 stories in forthcoming Haworth titles that may not see the light of day any time soon, 1 essay in a forthcoming Suspect Thoughts collection that's in the same boat but for different reasons, and 1 story in a forthcoming erotica anthology that's caught up in the whole PGW fiasco.
It's looking like it's time to write something much longer than short stories.
I'm editing a book for a Lethe Press so that's next year's project and I have 1 or 2 deadlines for things I said I'd submit to other people's anthos by end of year and have started but this is moving insanely slow for me. I've been kicking myself because I've only written 3 new stories this year--and did a bunch of book promo and revisions to existing pieces and started an interview due in December or so--but still feeling sluggish.
So, impromptu survey, what should I work on next?
The alternate Regency fantasy novel with the romance subplot. This is farthest along: it features the Fay, cross dressing, swashbuckling, Luddites and a cast of way too many. Fun though.
The lesbian sword and sorcery novel set in a desert fantasy city where every form of death is personified.
The comic mystery erotic romance (mostly het) set in IT (less research that way).
The m/m erotic romance set in medieval Russia.
Something completely new and different, spurning the call of all the currently postponed projects.

Thoughts? Chocolate?

Comments

[mroctober.livejournal.com]

The lesbian sword and sorcery novel set in a desert fantasy city where every form of death is personified.

I would SOOOO read this.

[jrosestar.livejournal.com]

This one gets my vote too.

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[jean-roberta.livejournal.com]

I can so identify with Luddites! As you might have noticed, my knowledge of 21st-century technology has proceeded on a desperately-need-to-know basis, so is fairly sketchy. I hope your Regency Luddites are shown as either short-sighted or far-sighted (environmentalists before their time) but not complete fools.

Unlike the little man dressing for a costume party in a cartoon that once ran in The New Yorker, you know how to buckle your swash.

Lesbian sword & sorcery in a desert city with personified death sounds tempting, though.

For years, I've been drawn to Hans Christian Anderson's Snow Queen as a personification of a northern climate, and esp. as a kind of seductive Domme version of death by freezing. For better or worse, climate change in central Canada seems to be deflating her power in my real life (prob. yours too).

Actually, She could show up in your medieval Russian story, possibly as a gentler threat to male lovers than the local landowner, the Tsar's court or the Church. :~(

IMO you have 2 choices: (1) force yourself to finish the piece that either has the soonest deadline or seems most likely to be accepted, or (2) pay attention to your dreams. The plot that is most on your mind will probably show up there, so you can work with your subconscious.

[elizabethth.livejournal.com]

The alternate Regency fantasy novel with the romance subplot. This is farthest along: it features the Fay, cross dressing, swashbuckling, Luddites and a cast of way too many.

This one's got my vote.