The Patent Dragon's Zone of Soul Retraction

In the past, I've found it rather amusing that there were, in the early days, announcements at the end of each series of Big Brother that line were open for people having trouble dealing with the end of the "competition", given that it was at the time, such a major "social" phenomenon. Right now, I think I'm starting to see what the programme makers were on about - I think I am actually missing the Olympics.

It is therefore not that much of a surprise that I'm finding myself getting back into writing, after several months engrossed in Skyrim, and even more so where Star Trek Online is concerned. However, I am finding myself in a bit of a quandary, with two storylines following uncomfortably similar paths - one is a potential follow-on to the current WORLDS COLLIDE arc, and the other is a storyline that has been a "Coming Soon" since Reignfall (and actually a while before that, if I'm going to be clincally accurate). So, which gets "the top step", so to speak? I recently brought in an entirely different character to feature in a story to avoid using characters with too-similar names, so I know I can change things, and feel satisfied by the results...

It's hard to write about this, and avoid spoilers, but I'll try. Yes, STORY ONE is the core of a potential WORLDS COLLIDE II, but the elements that make it so were something of an afterthought, and STORY TWO is a separate series of events, possibly greater in magnitude, so I think STORY TWO deserves to stand on the top of this particular... podium...

(Hm. There's the Olympics again...)

Replotting the aftermath of WORLDS COLLIDE could be good for the story, and my writing "momentum" as a whole. For Operation Haphazard, I'm hoping to "travel light", but I'll still have the netbook with me, and a dedicated writing notebook I can carry with my dedicated London "Citybook". Now, if only there was something else to occupy my time when I'm away other than what I normally do at home...