New direction

Lately I feel myself bending toward my new direction, music drama (or chamber opera or whatever it turns out to be -- it won't be "musicals" and it won't be traditional opera -- it'll be like the moment in the film Magnolia when everyone starts singing ha ha), and this is sucking away energy from my current "traditional" projects. I need to buckle down and finish the three short novels I have in the works, but after them I may well retire as a novelist the same way I retired as a playwright. I feel like I'm being tugged in different directions. But I want music to take up more of my energy.