My serious need for somone honest

First I would like to say that although that picture is appropriate for this topic, I have been seriously craving a burger since I found it.

I am in serious need of an honest person. Not honest like "You need a stylist ASAP!" (which is probably true), but honest like "I like this part of your story, but this could use some work". Only problem here is that I have searched the area that I live in and apparently there are no people who are interested in sharing their artistic genius with me, or reading my not-so-genius work of art. When I am writing I am my own critic and I pick myself apart. But, I also get no help from my friends because their all afraid to hurt my feelings. My blog, on the other hand, is not so popular (even though I keep talking to mostly myself in hopes that someday people will want to follow me). I feel like I am sitting here writing, "Dear Diary".

Anyways, back on track, I am looking for serious writers who hope to someday be published just like myself. I would prefer to find more experienced than myself. I am only working on my first book and it is not even in the genre that I intend to intrude upon later on. Maybe sometime soon I could find a partner or a group to take me in and help me become better at the thing I love most in this world (writing, not burgers or ice cream which are right up there too). For now, I am going to start on a new project. Wish me luck.

Writing and other dangerous activities

On days like today, when the weather is perfect for writing sappy love stories and making figures in the frost on my window, I find my mind running crazy with ideas. It's hard to resist the urge to brainstorm but I have no room right now for more book ideas. Over the last few months I have been working on a novel, which is going excruciatingly slow because of my lack of imagination in the book. While I have been dying to complete this project, I am more excited about other ideas that I've written down over the time that I have been working on said project. So, in spite of being utterly terrified of the idea of starting a new book and leaving my old project behind (for now), I have decided to work on another one of my ideas.

The only problem with this is that I've written down about five other different ideas for novels and their extensions and I'm not sure which I should choose. The most dangerous part of writing, for me anyway, is the decision of what to work on next. I have been considering this for about a month and I still cannot decide. I feel like my brain is going to explode. I have already narrowed the field slightly because one of my ideas includes traveling in my research and that is just not in my budget at the moment. So I was hoping that maybe someone could give me some feedback. On the right side of the page is a poll that will be open until April 1st. I have ideas for all of the options in the poll and I was wondering what you, as the audience, would like to read. You can choose more than one option because I have a few ideas that involve more than one of those elements listed in the poll in the story. Please, help me decide. The question to answer is really, what would you want to pick up on your next trip to the bookstore?