At the Crossroads

Painting by Elena Velichkova

I came to an unexpected writing crossroads this morning.

While my agent is shopping around my debut novel , I’ve written several short stories. Also, I went back and took a fresh look at a Southern Gothic Horror novel that I wrote several years ago. Since I’d grown in my writing style and execution, it seemed like a good time for a rewrite.

And all was going well until this morning. While taking a shower, an old unfinished mystery novel of mine tapped on the back door of my brain and asked for entry. It was the novel I was working on when I dropped everything and went to work on what would become the novel now on submission.

So, now I’m faced with a decision. Both novels are at about the same level of first draft (Southern Gothic-36,072 words/Historical mystery-37,698 words.

I’m not prone to jumping around on projects. Both are solid stories. However, the mystery was the story where I was living before I got sidetracked.

What to do?