A decision required

I don't know if this counts as an accomplishment but I know I need to make a decision.

My MS is 180K and has too many characters and plots stuffed in and I know it cannot go on as it is.

So, I have decided that I've two options. One is to divide it up into smaller books under the title of "tales from my universe".

The other is to take what I now know about writing as a learning experience and start something new.

I'd love to do the latter but certain family members would probably not understand.

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So... is this a goal? An accomplishment?

I think I'll go and mop the kitchen floor.

I think I will be chopping up my manuscript and recasting it as two books. It's a question of what in which book, though.

I'm working on my book for the first time in weeks: before that I was panicking, going round in circles and getting close to giving up.

I've got two characters that seem unnecessary: what they do and see isn't that important to the main plot. I've got another character who needs to do one important thing but also has a whole story line herself... which might need to be trimmed or shifted. So what I am doing is going through these characters and noting down what they are doing and what plot points they are involved in (other than their plots). Then once that's done I'll work out which of these need to be dropped and which can folded into the rest.

I'm working on my book again. Wow.

Ohh,,, I'm so happy to be working on my MS again after months of indecision and panic. I know what to do... it's great.

It's not going to be easy, but I think I can do it.