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That is a difficult question, acutally.
It's difficult to count my WiPs, too, at the moment, because there are quite a few whose status sort of oscillates between "just a plot bunny I may tackle some day" and "actual project". But I'd say I have nine major projects, apart from Back.... Four of these have been very firmly on the back burner since around 2003 or 2004, though I am too fond of them, and in some cases there is too much material already, for me to consider them abandoned. Another has been on the back burner since 2006.
So that leaves four arguably "active" projects. Two of them, started in 2007 (or 2006?) and 2009 (or 2008?), respectively, are short by concept, and should be easy - they're essentially introspective mood pieces (one about John Crichton, the other about Maya, and her relationship with Sam). Yet I've been rather stuck on both of these projects pretty much since day one, so they're massively frustrating, and I don't really see a way forward, except to continue the same, excruciatingly slow and frustrating way I've been going so far. Promoting them to "main project" seems useless - it wouldn't speed them up at all, I think.
Then there's the Sandman crossover, whose very solid and promising beginning was conceived in an amazingly productive couple of weeks in 2008, and has been completely stalled since then. In many ways I think this would be the best to promote, because I think there's a chance that - once I've reread the comic, and done a bit of thinking and planning - this may progress relatively smoothly. And the point of having a main project in the first place is still to reduce my list of WiPs. So this might be the most likely to do that.
But then, there's also the fact that my 2.08 survival epic has been on my mind a lot recently, and I've begun research for that again, and am in e-mail conversations about it with a few people, too. I'm wary of promoting that to main project, though, because not only will it have to be at least novella-length - which is scary in its own right - but it also seems nearly impossible to accomplish in a variety of ways. Making that my main writing project seems like an exercise in self-destruction, or in futility.
I'd also like to promote at least one of the back burner WiPs back to "active" status, once Back... is out of the queue. Possibly the only one that involves Methos, because that is literally my only HL project at the moment; and also, I think it has the potential to be really, really great.
Or I could promote two of the back burner projects, and actually make one of them my main project.
Oh, choices. Why so difficult?
It's difficult to count my WiPs, too, at the moment, because there are quite a few whose status sort of oscillates between "just a plot bunny I may tackle some day" and "actual project". But I'd say I have nine major projects, apart from Back.... Four of these have been very firmly on the back burner since around 2003 or 2004, though I am too fond of them, and in some cases there is too much material already, for me to consider them abandoned. Another has been on the back burner since 2006.
So that leaves four arguably "active" projects. Two of them, started in 2007 (or 2006?) and 2009 (or 2008?), respectively, are short by concept, and should be easy - they're essentially introspective mood pieces (one about John Crichton, the other about Maya, and her relationship with Sam). Yet I've been rather stuck on both of these projects pretty much since day one, so they're massively frustrating, and I don't really see a way forward, except to continue the same, excruciatingly slow and frustrating way I've been going so far. Promoting them to "main project" seems useless - it wouldn't speed them up at all, I think.
Then there's the Sandman crossover, whose very solid and promising beginning was conceived in an amazingly productive couple of weeks in 2008, and has been completely stalled since then. In many ways I think this would be the best to promote, because I think there's a chance that - once I've reread the comic, and done a bit of thinking and planning - this may progress relatively smoothly. And the point of having a main project in the first place is still to reduce my list of WiPs. So this might be the most likely to do that.
But then, there's also the fact that my 2.08 survival epic has been on my mind a lot recently, and I've begun research for that again, and am in e-mail conversations about it with a few people, too. I'm wary of promoting that to main project, though, because not only will it have to be at least novella-length - which is scary in its own right - but it also seems nearly impossible to accomplish in a variety of ways. Making that my main writing project seems like an exercise in self-destruction, or in futility.
I'd also like to promote at least one of the back burner WiPs back to "active" status, once Back... is out of the queue. Possibly the only one that involves Methos, because that is literally my only HL project at the moment; and also, I think it has the potential to be really, really great.
Or I could promote two of the back burner projects, and actually make one of them my main project.
Oh, choices. Why so difficult?
