Oops, forgot to give this a title.

I have this small problem: I want to commit myself to sitting down and writing, but I cannot decide what to work on to the exclusion of everything else.

I could draft my novel from last National Novel Writing Month (usually titled 'Vestiges', but I'm experimenting with the rather overused and obvious title 'Kingdom Come'). Or the one before that, though I have fewer hopes for that...it is pretty awful. But I think 2009's novel is worth salvaging, once I get rid of the truly awful bits and large chunks of the setting.

I could write the other 50,000 words of 'Cyberknights'. However, this would involve ignoring the royal mess I made of the first 50,000 or spending precious time drafting it and really, where would that end?

I could have yet another bash at 'Captain Colney and the Avaricious Angel', my ongoing attempt to write awesome swashbuckling prose. I'm thinking of actually writing the origins story rather than just referring to it in the past, because at least that way I have a plot. But I have tried several times before, got a little way, and stalled, so it might be a lost cause. Pity, since I love the characters deeply.

I could start playing with 'Mirabilis', my take on modern fairies, probably a young adult book, though I'm under no illusions of how difficult YA books are to write. Also, I don't have access to the book containing the legend my core premise is based on.

I have a bit of an itch to write a fantasy novel as I'm currently halfway through 'Pawn of Prophecy' by David Eddings, but I'm sure it'll go away. It usually does when I realise how woefully unoriginal all high fantasy is. I do have an idea, but it'll take a lot more development, so at the very least I should leave it to stew for a while.

It's really difficult to make myself buckle down and write one particular thing. I have so much going on in my head that while it's OK to say "Ooh, that's an awesome idea...but I'll write it down and then it'll always be there and not clogging up my head, and I might come back to it in the future and really make something of it," about small ideas, I have half a dozen fully-fleshed-out novels in my brain, and countless other things that aren't currently bugging me to be written but are fully ready to be. As well as the new things I get every day that catch my imagination so well they make me think about them all the time.

I also feel like writing different things at different times depending on what I've been reading/watching/playing. 'Fallout 3' and 'Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl' always makes we want to do post-apocalyptic. Watching 'Supernatural' makes me want to draft 'Vestiges' (I wonder if the fact that I still think of it as 'Vestiges' means I should leave the title alone?). I'm reading various Solomon Kane short stories in preparation for the film coming out next week (squeeeeee) and I've also been reading 'Captain Blood' by Rafael Sabatini, so I'm all about the swashbuckling right now.

My instinct is to say "Well, damn them all and I'll write what I want to when I want to," but with me that ends up with me getting distracted by shinies and going and starting afresh every day, which essentially means I'll never get anything finished. I mean, if you don't make yourself knuckle down to one thing at a time, what's to stop you from leaving for something else when the going gets tough? Bloody-mindedness tends to help, but that sometimes isn't enough.