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[Perpetual Man]

I never knew you were an old necromantic at heart, Perp. So, maybe that chuckle should be more of a maniacal laugh? Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

Well it depends how you look at it... you see the necromancer is a nice friendly fellow who gives chocolate to kids, and cuddles fluffy bunnies...








or not.

 

[Prefx]

Novel: The Witch on Bard Street
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Current Word Count: 20,000 words I'd stand behind. The rest can be ignored for now.
Status: One secondary character has (against my wishes) asserted himself as an important figure in the main character's life. Unfortunately, his style of speaking, mannerisms, etc. replicate another secondary character, but the first guy has a more interesting background. I've decided to fix the threads and turn these two characters into one, and pull him up to the spotlight.

I have this weird OCD with my writing where if I don't like how a word "looks," let alone how it sounds, I won't use it. Luckily the story is compact enough that it should round out to 100,000, and the genre doesn't require doorstops.

 

[Aaron Stone]

Unfinished

Type: Novel
Genre: Fantasy
Word Count: 10,000-12,000, depending on whether or not I include a certain chapter.
Goal: I'm only home for a weekend every two weeks, but...hopefully, say...1,500 word update every time. Feel free to pester me.
Plotline: Pulling out of the driveway, about to change gears and head out on the road at full speed.

 

[subtletylost]

hmmmm...

title: untitled
genre: fantasy
word count: 691
status: dumped most likely

title: m (working title)
genre: undecided
word count: 1121
status: w.i.p.

title: the littlest fbi agent
genre: crime/action adventure/ sci fi
word count: 1036 (without title/table of contents/chapter title/acknowledgments---with those is 1097)
status: w.i.p.

title: eyes of the law
genre: crime
word count: 7331 (with chapter titles/author's note)
status: my most active w.i.p.

UPDATE

Eyes of the law is down to 709 words because I started over, it just wasn't very flowy and needs a whole lot of work.

I need to see if I can't find those other three..... why must my computer be so un-organised

title: eyes of the law
genre: crime, fantasy, scifi - maybe I am just unsure
word count: has 2250 words but not in their correct order. ( I have a prologue and a scene.)
status: my most active w.i.p.
The main character has had a dream yay!(sarcasm detected).

I found the other ones again! maybe if I get stuck on Eyes I'll work on them.

 

[Warren_Paul]

New Project:

Start Date: 25/02/12
Title: Haven One
Genre: Science Fiction Horror
Word Count: 935
Status: One dead zombie and a critique later.

 

[Chaoticheart]

Title: Blood and Memory
Genre: Fantasy - I wouldn't quite classify it as high.
Word Count: 4,822 of a projected 12k.
Status: Getting there.


Title: The End of Silence
Genre: High Fantasy
Word Count: 12,778 of a projected 250k
Status: Prologue done. First chapter nearly done. On temporary hold whilst I do some additional world building (primarily reworking the magic & god systems).

 

[Mouse]

The Beautiful Man now 9296 words. Woo hoo! Only another 80k to go.

12k, baby! I don't know what's going on or where it's going, but it feels quite good.

 

[David Evil Overlord]

Well it depends how you look at it... you see the necromancer is a nice friendly fellow who gives chocolate to kids, and cuddles fluffy bunnies...








or not.

Does he cuddle the fluffy bunnies before or after they rise from their graves moaning "Carrots....caaaarrrrotttts"?

 

[Jammill Khursheed]

This sounds like a really good idea, sadly I only write scripts (and only a few of them are Sci-Fi) so not only would most be off-topic, I'd seem like a word count gimp in comparison to prose writers.

i.e.

INT - HOTEL ROOM - NIGHT

Just a generic hotel room.

In prose you could get like three paragraphs out of that, I would so loose and I'm too competetive for that. Hell, the only reason I never ran the London Marathon is cos I don't think i can beat Hylie Gabrhasallasy... Yet.


Jammill

 

[Warren_Paul]

This sounds like a really good idea, sadly I only write scripts (and only a few of them are Sci-Fi) so not only would most be off-topic, I'd seem like a word count gimp in comparison to prose writers.

You could always just specify the number of pages instead. I'd imagine that because of the formatting you would work up to quite a high page count?

 

[Jammill Khursheed]

Unless I go mentally out of control, like Directors cut of Dune mental, that still only 130ish max, 42 for a TV show with not an ounce of room on that one.

The again I suppose its not a competition, so I can't technically lose.


Jammill

 

[Warren_Paul]

Count the whole tv series as one book.


It never was a competition, this post is to encourage others to reach those epic word count targets by showing you were able to do it.

New Project:

Start Date: 25/02/12
Title: Haven One
Genre: Science Fiction Horror
Word Count: 935
Status: One dead zombie and a critique later.

Start Date: 25/02/12
Title: Haven One
Genre: Science Fiction Horror
Word Count: 1,464
Status: First chapter finally complete, character went home.

 

[Jammill Khursheed]

well, here goes then:

Current Projects

The Sisterhood: Chosen Son
Format: 3-Part pilot mini-series (92min per part)
Started: January 2012
Genre: Alternate Timeline Sci-Fi
Word count: <1,000
Status: Mostly plotting the episodes, character work etc.


The Sisterhood: Part I - Speakers
Format: 13-part TV Serial, 46min per episode (ep I, X, XIII feature length 92min)
Re-Started: December 2010
Genre: Alternate Timeline
Word count: 111,145
Status: Ep I, Ep III - X COMPLETE, Ep II in re-write, Ep XI-XIII not scripted


The Chronicles Of Earth Book I: Genesis
Format: Feature Film (1st part of trilogy)
Last Edit: September 2010
Genre: Alternate Timeline Sci-Fi
Word count: 30,481
Status: COMPLETE (Ver 3.24)


The Chronicles Of Earth Book II: Revelations
Format: Feature Film (2nd part of trilogy)
Last Edit: October 2010
Genre: Alternate Timeline Sci-Fi
Word count: 24,597
Status: 2nd Draft-preliminary (Ver 2.01), needs major re-writes


that's the sci-fi stuff I'm working on at the minute, with other stuff in the pipeline/planning-stage. After I finish 'Chosen Son' and then 'Speakers', I have to do the whole of the second series of The Sisterhood 'Places Of Refuge' (another 13 episodes, with double-length first and last episodes) BEFORE I can start on the third film in the trilogy (Title withheld.)

Not included is all the peripheral documents needed for above projects (series 'bible', character development sheets, historical/religious inventions for alternate timeline and created religions) which could fill a novel by themselves.

 

[Perpetual Man]

Type: Novel
Genre: Fantasy
So far: Planned and built a skeleton for the first five chapters
Chapter Count: 4 Completed (First Draft) Working on fifth.
Word Count: 8,500

Not happy with bits of it, but it gives me a decent framework to play with; chapter 2 is unfinished, so I need to go back when I've completed 5 - which will be the longest chapter.

No necromancer. Yet.

Short story seems to have vanished so editing on hold.

 

[David Evil Overlord]

No necromancer. Yet.

Short story seems to have vanished so editing on hold.

When short stories vanish, everybody blames the friendly neighbourhood necromancer...

 

[Warren_Paul]

When short stories vanish, everybody blames the friendly neighbourhood necromancer...

I thought that was when they started rising from years old forum posts?

 

[Perpetual Man]

When short stories vanish, everybody blames the friendly neighbourhood necromancer...

Also explains where the Necromancer has gone from the WiP

 

[subtletylost]

My novel: Doomed* is my working title now
Genre: it's barely scifi and somewhat fantasy. that makes it somewhat urban fantasy. (can urban fantasy be set in a small town in a rural county?)
so far: the prologue and a dream and I know what has to happen by chapter 4.
word count: is wackily off the wall changing weirdly it's now 2376 but might be smaller the same time tomorrow.




*it used to be called Eyes of the law

 

[David Evil Overlord]

I think "urban fantasy" means it's set in the real world, and has fantasy elements. I don't think there's any law against urban fantasy going for a nice long ride in the countryside. And "rural fantasy" sounds a little silly.

Good luck with your wackily off the wall word count.

 

[alchemist]

Novel: The Eternity Sphere

Genre: SF for YA (probably)

Word Count: 121,499

Status: Draft one FINISHED

Novel: The Eternity Sphere

Genre: SF for YA (probably)

Draft Two

Aims

1. Cut word count by at least 10%

2. Clean major plot points

3. Make it better

Status

1. Up to chapter 21 (plus prologue) now. Original word count at this stage was 81,958. Target: 73,763. Achieved: 70984 (13.4% reduction)

2. Major plot points so far cleared. Unfortunately that has raised a number of minor plot points.

3. Indubitably better. I wrote some dross two years ago. Still do, but it's less obvious.