So I’ve been hav­ing kind of mixed feel­ings about my online ser­ial novel, Every­thing that never hap­pened, which has been stalled since, oh, August or so. June, if I’m hon­est with myself. This week I decided to push it to the back burner, and work instead on Salyx, which is my 2006 Nano novel. I’ve had some good ideas recently for that story, and it’s been more and more in the fore­front of my writ­ing brain, so it only seemed nat­ural I’d get to it.

But in the last two days, two of my friends (both named John, coin­ci­den­tally) have inquired about the sta­tus of Every­thing etc. One has read to the first inter­lude; the other has made it to chap­ter 8 or so. And so I’ve started to think that maybe I should push through, and get a first draft com­pleted (which, hon­estly, is what this par­tic­u­lar online novel is).

So in the next lit­tle while I’m going to try and do both. I’ve decided to try using Spacejock’s yWriter soft­ware to work on Salyx; I may try using it for Every­thing as well. We’ll see how this goes.

If I find I really can’t han­dle two writ­ing projects at once, I guess I’ll have to choose. At this point the choice looks like it would fall to Salyx’s favour, but who knows? Maybe get­ting in there, get­ting my hands dirty with those char­ac­ters from the spooky, zombie-infested 17th cen­tury will rekin­dle my fer­vor for Every­thing.

I hope this post is of inter­est to some­one other than me… but even if it ain’t, it’s some­thing I wanted to say. Well, write. Well, type.