And the winner is...

So I got to thinking, and maybe a month was a little too long to run a poll for, especially when I am anxious to get to writing.
I am announcing the winning story from the poll, and it is.... EMPRESS (Actual title to follow eventually.)
Thank you to everyone who voted and commented, I have taken your thoughts into consideration, and some of you have inspired me to pursue things in different directions as well!

Now, if you all would give me about a week and I should have the first installment of something for you to read, tag along with my development as I go on my companion blog, I'm sure I'll be asking for your help there if I get stuck!

Thanks as well for your kind condolences regarding my friend who passed away, the next few weeks will be a struggle for his family (wife and 4 kids) as well as the many people who worked for him as everything is set into order and we begin to move on. His compassion and inspiration will be sorely missed by those of us who knew him.

Update to Poll, Reality Update

I had to take down the poll and re-do it, as well as temporarily suspend my elf story idea.

The reason for this is because the "bad guy" in the story was based on someone very close to my family (made evil by the wonder that is FICTION), and I just received word that this person was killed in a car accident earlier today. I am honestly in a little bit of shock, it seems so unreal.

I feel that it would be wrong to immortalize this person as someone evil and cruel, because in reality, he was not. He would have thought it humorous to be a bad guy in a book, but given the circumstances... Therefore, I will not work on that story for the time being, in order to honor his memory, and I will re-work the idea later and make him a much more benevolent character.

I am sorry for those of you who might have voted already, please take the time to register your vote again, I have kept track of the results thus far, and will include them in the final decision.

Reminder...

Because this is such a new blog, and because I have to get my brain in gear to do some serious writing, I put the poll up for a month, to generate some interest and hopefully get 100 votes. That way I know I've gotten a true representation of what people are interested in. In the meantime, keep checking back, and be sure to check out my companion blog, which I am working on a character development series. Thanks!

Here we go...

Ok, so here's the plan...

I love to write, but I get cold feet about it. My fiance doesn't get my interest in romance novels, and I'm a little isolated as a stay at home mom. My friends live far away now, and have their own lives going on, it's not like it was when I first started writing and we used to critique each other all the time.
I also have a serious problem with motivation. I'll get started on a story that's bouncing around in my head, plan it out, do some research for it, and then I just stall. I need something to keep me going, plus I need editorial opinions, and to top it all off, I have not the first clue about how to get published, other than randomly sending my work off and hoping I won't get a rejection letter.

So... I had a blog on here a long time ago that I neglected, but I still enjoy the idea of getting instant feedback, so I thought I might try to involve the blogger community with my work. My idea is to post my writing, chapter by chapter, until I have something that's complete. What I ask of any visitor to this site is to give me some honest feedback on how I can improve what I have written, and maybe how to get it published.

But... to get started, I have to know where I am going to begin, so I am going to post a poll offering everyone here the chance to decide what I am going to work on first. My next post will give a brief synopsis of the stories I have started before and never finished, or maybe just ideas I had for stories that need to be researched or taken new places. So let me know what you think!