Well, now that we're 2 weeks into May, I guess it's finally time to let you all know what I've decided on for my long-term project (which I likely won't start work on 'til June or later) that I've been debating on for about 6 weeks.
I have decided that the next large piece that I'm going to work on is The Wolf and the Sheath (working title). I talk a little more about this project in https://www.iveyink.com/blog/2017/3/26/what-to-do-next
and
https://www.iveyink.com/blog/2017/3/28/in-a-world-where-writers-write-stuff .
(It is the first peice explaned in both posts.)
A big part of why I have decided to work on this is that it's kind of a compromise peice: it's not my longest partial novel, but I also wouldn't be starting a new peice from scratch. I'm not as emotionally invested in it as Bright Fire, but it's also not as intimidating or messy, structurally, as Bright Fire. It also wasn't the one that the highest number of people seemed interested in, but at the same time there was more interest for this one than a couple of the others.
Plus, this one also makes me feel more positive. Bright Fire and Brinyor both have characters dealing with various emotional issues (some of which comes from how I was feeling when I started writing them). That doesn't mean that I won't ever work on either of them. It's just that when you have a piece that exudes wide-eyed enthusiasm that I can't help but get into just rereading it, it may be that that's just one more reason to work on that one when you're coming back from a long hiatus in the writing process.