What are you working on right now?

Trying to decide whether my teen MCs will get their first kiss in the last chapter, or if I'm going to leave it hanging.

They've been through a lot. I've been really mean to them. I think they might just deserve that kiss.
 
Today, I've had tons of fun editing chapter three of a sequel. The first book isn't published yet, but I wanted to know what happened to my characters next, so a couple of weeks ago, I decided to write the sequel as if it was a début. I've impressed myself with what I've written so far. It's putting my first book to shame. It's entitled 'A Separation of Worlds: Creepy Eyes' and up to yet, I've written 13,949 words.
 
For some reason I started another short and am almost 2000 into it. No idea why I started it when I had two other projects on the go. Sometimes the keys punch themselves it seems.
 
In my case, it is more a case of what I should be working on. I should be proofchecking my upcoming chapbook and I have three anthology invitations that I should also be writing stories in response to. I have ideas and in two cases rough drafts, but the weather and my workload at my day job have been militating against the time and mental state needed for writing fiction. I am confident I will get it all done in time, though!
 
Well I was working on three projects so I decided that wasn't enough and I wrote another short this week. It's only around 2500 words but I think it turned out pretty cool. I'm not sure which thing I will move on too now but I have a feeling I should be finishing my fantasy short so I can move on to my WIP
 
Beating my head on the keyboard in frustration regarding the wording for the back cover blurb of Stars of Black. So much so that I've given up and stuck it in my sffC blog for finer minds than mine to clarify/villify. :)
 
Hi,

Slowed down a little on The Godlost Land - had to because the edits of The Nephilim came back and had to go to that.

Still 142k in and just added four or five chapters - all finally fleshing out the bad guy. He's an eighty year old wizard trying to live forever and happily killing anyone and everyone to do it. Also a massive pervert. I've never written one before - and am really enjoying him. I mean every time you think you know just how bad he is, he does something worse!

Cheers, Greg.
 
I finished one of my stories-in-progress. The wordcount is a bit skimpy - just under 2K - but I think the story does everything it needs to. I've sent it to the editor of the antho it is meant for and he seems positive about it on a first reading.

One down, two to go. And I sent the publisher the corrections for my chapbook.
 
This seems a good place to check in. I'm waiting for my next franchise contract -- had 4 last year! -- and for the first time in nearly a year and a half writing on spec; a YA Heroic Fantasy yarn, provisional title "Barbarian in the City".
 
Working on a near-future, hard-as-possible military science fiction novel.
 
Second Saxon & Khan short story.

After that I'll try and sort out another short story that has been inexplicable difficult.
 
I am still on my sketches. I'd spent a week trying to work out what was going on behind Wilf and Doris. Today my children have tortured me with Minecraft videos and i have come up with an idea finally.
 
On the final push to finish this edit of WIP before summer school holidays. 7 weeks, and 15 chapters to get through. I'm trying to ignore the "what do I do with it next" voice, not doing very well. Worried that the academic expectations have messed with my narrative flow. Need to decide on exactly what I will do for my dissertation next year as I can't use WIP as previously planned, nor the second book in series for it. o_0 So I can't decide on dragons, space, or some immersive project on WW1. Meh. Too many things. Best to hide in the WIP :)
 
Gathered inspiration for a war between the living and the dead that takes place in the near future. Not just zombies, but all things undead: Zombies, Mummies, Liches, Revenants... anything classed as undead.

So with that, i have 3 WIPs, with one shelved. Working through them slowly, one line at a time, allowing the creativity to flow naturally rather than force it out.
 
Nothing. I sent off a short story today and I'm waiting to see what the edits are like. It feels weird not writing anything.
 
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