Half a decade back the wife and I attempted to pursue getting novels published with several major publishers. After collecting rejection slips, we decided that the demands of mundane life needed far more of our attention. Now she has graduated college (for now), and I am not constantly gone on military deployments, so we set our sights on pursuing a writing vocation again. Yet the question remains, which project and direction to go toward first.
1)Do I help the wife on her children's books for her Moose Valley Tales. Those are excellent stories, and a lot of fun to write. The illustrators we are working with are also fantastic artists, and very creative.
2) Do I pick up science fiction again and try to make more progress on one of three Unwelcome Neighbor novels I currently have in the works? And if that which one; the martial adventures of the Federal Earth Frigate Esperance, the growing pains of a fresh born alien crew of an Aracana broodship, or the hard science fiction travails of human's first relativistic starship?
3) Pick back up mythic fantasy with Frost Pyre, and go through my narrative dense story of a nordic frost giant contesting to the death ownership of a large mountain with a chinese mythical shoulung (sky dragon)?
4) Hammer out the rest of my modern fantasy for "My Six Daughters", the challenges facing a father with six very different but magical daughters in a modern world?
5) Maybe I should tackle reworking the manuscript for the first novel in my epic fantasy series, In Darkness Born, where Padrech de Shekineser rips his way out of the Lands of the Dead with his legions of spectres to extract revenge on the descendants of those who defeated him in his bid for the imperial throne?
6) Or I could truly drop into a dark mood and finish Seduction of a Succubus, but such explicit erotic fantasy for my first published major novel would put a stamp of flavor on any future career that I might find undesirable.
7) I could pick back up my attempt at writing a near future war novel with the first manuscript in my envisioning of World War 3 in the year 2032. That might be an interesting challenge.
So many ideas, so little time, and such an inability to focus and decide. But a decision I will make. I can't accept letting another year go by without results.
1)Do I help the wife on her children's books for her Moose Valley Tales. Those are excellent stories, and a lot of fun to write. The illustrators we are working with are also fantastic artists, and very creative.
2) Do I pick up science fiction again and try to make more progress on one of three Unwelcome Neighbor novels I currently have in the works? And if that which one; the martial adventures of the Federal Earth Frigate Esperance, the growing pains of a fresh born alien crew of an Aracana broodship, or the hard science fiction travails of human's first relativistic starship?
3) Pick back up mythic fantasy with Frost Pyre, and go through my narrative dense story of a nordic frost giant contesting to the death ownership of a large mountain with a chinese mythical shoulung (sky dragon)?
4) Hammer out the rest of my modern fantasy for "My Six Daughters", the challenges facing a father with six very different but magical daughters in a modern world?
5) Maybe I should tackle reworking the manuscript for the first novel in my epic fantasy series, In Darkness Born, where Padrech de Shekineser rips his way out of the Lands of the Dead with his legions of spectres to extract revenge on the descendants of those who defeated him in his bid for the imperial throne?
6) Or I could truly drop into a dark mood and finish Seduction of a Succubus, but such explicit erotic fantasy for my first published major novel would put a stamp of flavor on any future career that I might find undesirable.
7) I could pick back up my attempt at writing a near future war novel with the first manuscript in my envisioning of World War 3 in the year 2032. That might be an interesting challenge.
So many ideas, so little time, and such an inability to focus and decide. But a decision I will make. I can't accept letting another year go by without results.
