Okay, I have two stories in process, and I'm wondering which one I should work on.
Which of these premises etc takes your fancy?
1. Fire and Water
Designed as the first part of a trilogy, I started writing it about four years ago. The plot is epic fantasy in a classical style fantasy world, with Byzantine Greek, Iberian, and Saxon elements and themes, involves various machiavellian plots, an schism'd order of uberly powerful mages with powers linked to different elements, and so on. Currently sitting at about halfway written, fifty thousand words in. Will need quite a bit of rewriting of current sections, though the plot thus far is fairly fleshed out so that'll mostly be stylistic.
2. Guns, Swords, and Steam
A story to go with my RPG rules, centres around an army officer seconded to an early 18th Century version of MI5. It's in the GS&S world, with some steampunk and clockpunk elements, a few bits of gothic and high fantasy lobbed in in places as well. I've written about twenty of twenty-five short chapters and made a start on 21 to 23, but that would leave it quite short so more chapters and more padding would be needed to fill it out (it was written for A Call To Arms, so I'd basically have to pad it up from a snippety e-mag story to a more bulky work).
Thoughts? Questions?