andphi's Journal: What to write next

I am trying to decide which of the many, many stories bouncing around in my head needs to find its way to the paper next. Part of my decision has already been made for me. I am still working on the Eye of Aethr and would rather keep fewer than three active writing projects going at once. I can't decide, though, if The Tale of Five Brothers, which already has two complete drafts, should count as active or not.

I already have the bones of four (possibly six) related stories sprouting out of the Tale of Five Brothers. A few of them would flesh out events which are known to have happened during or before the story, but outside the field of the main character's awareness.
Parallel stories: Fire Within, Lion of the South

A few others would recount events before, after, or partially after but mostly before but because of the main story. I think the
Sequels: The Fall of Nine Towers, Point and Edge
Then there's Ghostmarch, which is a sequel what chronologically precedes The Tale of Five Brothers.

i can relate

[stoolpigeon]

I typed up outlines for 4 stories the other night - all set in the same world and about the same characters. I'm going to try and see this through though. I've already gotten farther than usual.

I'd like to start getting them together and have them ready so my kids can read them and that is turning out to be motivating - so maybe it will happen.

Congrats on your NaNo win!

[Shadow Wrought]

And best of luck in the rest of your writing. I started one NaNo and finished my second, but have been fairly unproductive since. So its nice to see others getting thoughts to paper and being productive;-)

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[andphi]

Technically, I didn't win. I ran out of novel at 39 and some change and ran out of energy before I could add significant parts of another novel to my word count. My mom, however, won so handily that I'll never stop bragging on her about it.

By the by, does your sig say something like: "I have a catapult. Unless you give me all your money, I will launch a big rock at your head"?

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[Shadow Wrought]

Sorry I misunderstood but, 39,000 words you're going to be turning into something are far better than 50,436 words which have languished unread for the better part of 3 years:-/ One of my co-workers won the NaNo and it has inspired me to start trying to edit the mash that I produced.

By the by, does your sig say something like: "I have a catapult. Unless you give me all your money, I will launch a big rock at your head"?

Yes! One of our interns is taking Latin and wrote that on the white board in my o

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[andphi]

I understand about mash. My first (and only winning) NaNo attempt is like that. I wrote it nearly 3 years ago, for NaNo2K6. It too languishes in desperate need of editing and rewriting. I would be embarrassed to show it to anyone in its current state.

I cheated. I found a Latin to English translation site. It gave definitions for each word individually, but made no attempt at synthesis. I speak a little Spanish, where Haber is 'to have'. Omnem, pecuniam, caput, and catalpultam are all trivially guessable. I

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[Shadow Wrought]

I understand about mash. My first (and only winning) NaNo attempt is like that. I wrote it nearly 3 years ago, for NaNo2K6. It too languishes in desperate need of editing and rewriting. I would be embarrassed to show it to anyone in its current state.

I spoke with the co-worker who just won this years. Neither one of us is willing to share it with anyone else in its current state, so we agreed to edit our respective works and then read each others. Its always easier when there's a goal!
I cheated. I fo

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[andphi]

Good plan. Best of luck to you. What genres did each of you choose?

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[Shadow Wrought]

She novelized an old English Ballad she had heard in college. I took a very different tack and wrote a "history" of Earth's Golden-Age of planetary colonization. I interspersed descriptions of the process with "primary source materials" of letters, journals, and the like from the people doing the colonization. Their writings are what will need the most work since they all sound like I wrote them. Same style, words, etc. Dialogue, even in this manner, is the bane of my writing;-)

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[andphi]

So literary or romantic fiction and future history? Sounds like a good mix. Each of you will be reading something completely from what you wrote.