With as often (or rather, how not often) I get a new story posted up, you'd think I was just really slow at it. And that's true. But it's only half the story.

No, really.

I decided to take an inventory of all of the crap that I am concurrently working on, with completed word counts so far and (estimated) final word counts :

Short Stories :

Intersection : 2654 / 8000
Smuggler's Way : 2791 / 13000
Companion 2.0 : 2966 / 7000
My Roommate's Girl : 3140 / 7000
The Laundromat : 3320 / 7000
Predatory Instinct : 4015 / 8000
Free Trial : 4040 / 8000
Last Hope : 10379 / 13000

Novellas :

Remembrance : 18736 / 70000
The Fairy and the Washing Machine : 31094 / 70000

Novels :

The Conscript : 58832 / ??????

I probably have a couple of other retarded story ideas bouncing around in my head and they tend to make things all the more difficult, as well. It's not that I have a hard time writing or coming up with new material - in fact, coming up with new material too readily is the problem. It's just so damned hard to focus on one thing at a time ...