AKA "It's not the idea, it's the execution."
Last weekend I found myself in the interesting position of contributing to seven different SOL stories very nearly simultaneously. All of the tales are in various stages of completion, from rough initial sketches to very nearly complete first drafts, but I found myself unable to concentrate on any single one of them for more than a few minutes. It was a very creative time, but vexing: coming up with scenes, dialogue, and plot ideas is terrific fun for me, while writing the narrative to get the reader from point A to point B and polishing sentences until they gleam is more like actual work. I wonder if other writers have encountered this?
After that feverish exercise, I've found myself settling back to finishing off Longshot, which is now at 70,000 words. I expect to write another 30,000 before it is finished, making it the first novel-length piece I will have published here. I expect that publication won't happen until the summer; if I finish it early, I'll continue to write the sequel to Resonance and the other stories, so that they might be published around the same time.