I know the feeling of doing what you want rather than what you should ... although I firmly believe that sometimes want needs to come first, just to keep us sane. However, I've noticed the free time I used to use for fiction writing is now mostly going into LJ, and that's an issue I have to address if I ever want to get published.

It's not something I look forward to addressing, because I love doing both -- the main difference being writing is a lonely business.