I'm working on the stories listed in my signature, in tandem. Whenever the brakes start squealing on one, I switch to the other.
Six Feet Under is going well - I'm sans laptop at the moment, so I've got pages and pages of world-building notes and half-scribbled scenes plus the stuff that was already on my laptop, so I've no idea how many words in I am. It'll be fun to find out once I start entering everything in.
I've taken the characters in SFU in so many different directions since they first made their appearance in my mind a little over three years ago, but never in this direction - never with all three getting their HEA. I looked over some old iterations last night wherein only two of the three ended up together (and I tried it every which way, believe me) and it felt so, so wrong. It was heartbreaking! So I'm thrilled that they all get to be together in this version. Makes it exciting to write.
In Lieu of Death is coming along, too, though it's pretty much in its infancy at this point. I was so happy when I realized that the main character in this story is a person of color! For a minute there, I was worried that my imagination was unintentionally racist, because I've never really had a PoC present him/herself as a main character. Really I think it was that I was so afraid of misrepresenting any race other than my own, that my imagination just followed suit.
So anyway, this MC came as a pleasant surprise because right off the bat, I not only knew he was a person of color but that he was also gay. Of course, I'm just as afraid of misrepresenting homosexual men as I am of misrepresenting PoC, but what can you do?
This story/character/situation definitely has a series feel to it because: 1. I've been privy to no other "voice" than the MC's, 2. There's a lot of room to play with in the world, 3. The MC's love interest is going to take a WHILE to come around anywhere near an HEA with my MC (he isn't nearly as comfortable with his homosexuality as my MC is).
So yeah, this story feels like HIS story, not the story of how he and his man fall in love (though that will happen), and this world is just way too much fun to dip into and out of within the span of one measly book.