I have: a) a small pile of rough paper with ideas; b) beginning paragraphs in writely and c) a few written chapters on the website. I need to get them organised and figure out which stories to work on and which ones to shelf.

full length stories (non fanfic)

1. Lamplight rewrite — a big undertaking, but this is my best shot at a submittable (I hesitate to say publishable) manuscript. At 76k words it’s the right length, even though I’ll need to re-write at least half the story, to take the fanfic element out.
2. nano 2009 story — already mindmapped, needs to be outlined. Unless I get completely busy at work, I must do nano this year.
3. Tight rewrite — this is the nano 2007 story where I lost 20k words after completion when my flashdrive failed. The great thing is I found the outline mindmap that I thought was lost, and the story has enough characters and quirkiness for me to take a stab at it again.
4. In Pieces rewrite — this was nano 2006. Full of angst and not exactly a happy ending. Possibly too autobiograpical. And because of that it’s a story close to my heart. I know people say don’t write your own story, though I can say most of it is my imagination.
5. Summer into Winter — gee, this is the story I’ve been trying to write for almost 20 years. Inspired by David Harsent’s book, I’ll read the book again to see how I feel.
6. road trip story — had this idea recently, not even fully formed. This will be an easy-reading, if formulaic, romance. I wonder if I can write something like that and not make it too angsty.

1. Atonement — it’s all outlined and over 5000 words written. And now that Spielberg and Will Smith are talking about remaking Oldboy, I have to get my story in first.
2. Days of Innocence Lost — EVERYONE wants me to write this, and even E has said (perhaps jokingly, perhaps not) that she’s passing the Master Will baton to me. There is a great story there, almost my legacy. Anyone who has read Earth will, hopefully, want to read more. After they’ve finished bawling their eyes out, and then cried some more. I have to finish this one day. May be the trick is to take it out of the Wishverse and into a brand new universe of my own creation.
3. Healing series — not exactly outlined, though again I have a good idea where i want it to go. It’s sad at first but very very romantic at the end. A change for me. Has a special place in my heart because it was my first ff idea, even preceding Common Areas. Not a lot of people know that.
4. Bigtown — this will need to go on hiatus, too many other stuff to write.
5. Magic — outlined. Very ambitious, complicated and big project. May be hard to get off the ground.
6. Beloved — the other Wishverse story, a few ideas jotted down on paper. Has too much overlap with DoIL, need lots of thinking.

1. The Mashup — almost 4500 words written. I need to finish this.
2. Master Will Pet boxing / mud wrestling romp — a straightfoward PWP, if I’m in the right mood this will be fun to write.
3. From the Balcony — this was to celebrate K’s balcony view. Now that she isn’t living at the apartment with the balcony, it’s kinda beside the point. There are elements that can form the beginning of a post S6-fic, let’s see how it goes.
4. Idle Winds — very angsty, a little autobiographical, has common elements with In Pieces, may be I’ll incorporated it there.
5. Unmasked — another one I’ve been writing for 10+ years. Shouldn’t take too long if inspiration returns.

I need to retire from my job to finish all these. Sigh, I can wish.