Everything that never ended

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 17^th 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.