What are you working on right now?

[Tim Murray]

Writing short stories and getting my second book through another edit, copy edit. Then it is off to the publisher for another, the final???

 

[Cathbad]

Having finished a tough chapter Saturday morning, I took the rest of Saturday and today off.

Important chapter - a 'sort of' reveal, but didn't want to give it all away. Wrote it in pen first, then typed it (with changes as I typed), then went back over it to correct tense - again!!

 

[thaddeus6th]

Redrafting Sir Edric's latest nonsense, as per beta reader suggestions.

 

[psychotick]

Hi,

Watching season 2 of Lucky Man - I stopped writing at about midday yesterday when I pubbed Roar!!! After this I've got season 3 and then probably a long nap!

Cheers, Greg.

 

[-K2-]

I'm seriously considering shifting the dates of my series for a couple reasons, pushing them out roughly twenty years.

In my series, everything starts to fall apart due to the U.S. President's actions beginning in 2017... Yeah, that's right, "the Mad Clown," we all know who that is I literally cannot come up with a more destructive scenario than what that bozo is doing... So, in my series, the problems begin in 2017, government and ecological collapse happens in 2020 and so it begins, the initial protagonist initially presented in 2028 and 2029.

However, I'm thinking I don't have to stick to those dates just so everyone knows the Mad Clown is the A** Clown, donnie t**** (yeah, little d&t for him). Though events of 2017-2019 are as they have/will happen, I think readers would be able to make the connection to 'now' easily enough if I push them out to 2037-2039. You know, "that reads just like t****!"

Further, no one likes reading about history past that never happened. So, hoping that the world doesn't actually collapse in 2020, that gives me until 2040 that the series remains a 'possible future.' By then, I'll be dead and gone so who cares if I get it all wrong at that point.

Opinions welcome!

K2

 

[AlexH]

I'm seriously considering shifting the dates of my series for a couple reasons, pushing them out roughly twenty years.

In my series, everything starts to fall apart due to the U.S. President's actions beginning in 2017... Yeah, that's right, "the Mad Clown," we all know who that is I literally cannot come up with a more destructive scenario than what that bozo is doing... So, in my series, the problems begin in 2017, government and ecological collapse happens in 2020 and so it begins, the initial protagonist initially presented in 2028 and 2029.

However, I'm thinking I don't have to stick to those dates just so everyone knows the Mad Clown is the A** Clown, donnie t**** (yeah, little d&t for him). Though events of 2017-2019 are as they have/will happen, I think readers would be able to make the connection to 'now' easily enough if I push them out to 2037-2039. You know, "that reads just like t****!"

Further, no one likes reading about history past that never happened. So, hoping that the world doesn't actually collapse in 2020, that gives me until 2040 that the series remains a 'possible future.' By then, I'll be dead and gone so who cares if I get it all wrong at that point.

Opinions welcome!

K2

Historical fiction is a big genre with some made up characters, though I don't know how true to history they all are, but there are plenty of popular stories with alternate histories and parallel worlds. I imagine this guy is a big topic many writers are writing about, so to stand apart some more it may make sense to set it in a different time period to now, and maybe even a different planet!

 

[sknox]

I would always put predictive SF past my own expiration date.

 

[Karn's Return]

Too much to list right now, but my biggest challenge at the moment is continuing season two of Tooninoot...I'm already having second thoughts about episode six here. The trouble being, I have no more ideas at the moment, both for a replacement episode and for future episodes... Oh dear.

 

[thaddeus6th]

Redrafting, with beta help, Sir Edric's latest daftness.

Also a bit more drawing. After I finish my current one (done the rough sketch but trying to decide whether to try shading it or not) might shift into insignia, crests, and maps.

 

[crystal haven]

Busy changing my main character into someone else. At least it's a first draft. Certainly makes writing interesting!

 

[Karn's Return]

That it does, Crystal Haven, that it does.

Characters aren't tools to be manipulated by the writer, the writer is the tool to be manipulated by the characters. For one of my latest projects-one I shamefully wince at every time I review it, to be sadly honest-I had no idea one particular character could be, for lack of a better term, so horrid. She had just never shown that kind of nature before, and now, well...

 

[Joshua Jones]

That it does, Crystal Haven, that it does.

Characters aren't tools to be manipulated by the writer, the writer is the tool to be manipulated by the characters. For one of my latest projects-one I shamefully wince at every time I review it, to be sadly honest-I had no idea one particular character could be, for lack of a better term, so horrid. She had just never shown that kind of nature before, and now, well...

I know exactly what you mean. I have this one antagonistic character who I would love to kill off, but it would ruin the story. He is such an evil, dehumanizing person... I would love to have him sucked into space or beaten to death by the people he mistreats, but it just can't happen for the story to accomplish its purpose. Maybe I will work him into a writing challenge where he is not so safe...

But, people have asked me why I don't just change him. It is hard to explain that he simply is who he is, and he needs to be who he is for the story to make sense.

 

[crystal haven]

Ah, yes, I agree with you. Normally my characters create themselves, and I just go along with it. But, this isn't the character changing personality, this is actually using a different character completely, replacing the other one. This new one has been in a previous book, and I have realised belatedly that I should have let her be in charge of writing it from the very beginning.

Trouble is both characters seem to want to be in the book now. Hmm.

 

[Karn's Return]

Well, let's just say that if I keep this particular story going-and I really am of two minds not to-one of the focal characters in it will NOT want to continue to be a part of it, and yet it's really all about him. :|


Whatever else I'm working on, well...I should really pick and choose. I really want to get this Tooninoot episode out of the way, but it's difficult to figure out how to pull this episode's theme off, and there's just far too much context that needs to be gotten from earlier episodes of this season and from season one that I just can't post here for any true, in-depth help...

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Finishing up my short collection. And then the New Thing. Much mayhem planned

 

[Karn's Return]

Wish I could say the same, but I need a shot in the pants to get properly motivated... :|

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Wish I could say the same, but I need a shot in the pants to get properly motivated... :|

I just have a time to try to write most days

 

[Karn's Return]

I'm more dictated by mood, honestly, and I'm squandering today when I shouldn't, but I'm right now, on the project I really want to finish up, I feel like I'm here:

 

[Joshua Jones]

Wish I could say the same, but I need a shot in the pants to get properly motivated... :|

Ok, if you say so...

 

[Karn's Return]

Not how I interpreted it, but if I got kicked in the gun every time I procrastinated on a project, I might actually see returns from Amazon...