What are you working on?

I didn't have a whole lot of time for writing in the fall last year, not with Baby B's illness. And it was crippling because, in some fluke brought about by hormones and new mom energy, I'd started a new MS a mere two weeks after he was born. I'd made good headway into it as well and then...pffft. The words became tough to render, time scarce. So the oomph I had going into this new MS was reduced to a few fitful spurts now and again.

But in the last week, I've added about 8K to that same MS. I should be finishing it up within the next two weeks before sending it off to Agent M for her thoughts. I cannot begin to say how excited I am at the prospect of having another project with the words THE END. Even more exciting? It's horror.

Now I love horror. I always have, always will. The project I was signed for was a very dark paranormal with some horror leanings, and many of my projects do run toward the dark. Every "practice" MS I wrote in high school was in the horror family. Thus, I'm going back to my roots.

This project is not a slash-'em-up-kill-'em-all type of story, but rather a slow, insidious tale that grows darker as more secrets are uncovered. There's a town. There's a girl with an ability to solve mysteries. There's a boy with lots to hide. There are things that go bump in the night. It has some contemporary southern Gothic elements, which isn't really surprising coming from me, and I'm actually feeling halfway decent about this project.

And now here's the fun part: deciding what comes next? I've got several adult or YA stories waiting to be told, a few waiting for me to return to them. It's going to take some real consideration to figure out which to work on next.

So tell me, what are you working on and how do you decide which project will come next? Do you have a lot of ideas stored up, or do you sometimes feel like ideas might elude you but the ones that do show are worth pursuing? I'd love to hear about it.