You are wearing a collar? Is that part of the problem? Perhaps you should ask the person holding the leash to choose what you should do.

See I can't help it.

Just create the next deadline which is to edit one of them by.... date

Otherwise next year you might have 15 x 50000 novels (novellas?) and how would you know which one to edit then? Potentially there could be a January 2012 entry of 'Is there a piece of software that will tell me which novel to edit first?'

I WAS taking the piss that time (but in the same serious vein)

Happy New Year - and I hope you get at least one edited and online by next January