What are you working on right now?

I like brainstorming titles, hope these help.
Earthseeker
The Long Road Home
Destination: Earth
Home is Where the Earth Is
The Winding Path to Terra Firma
A Space Needle in a Galactic Haystack
 
You people are amateurs. I cut 93k from my first book. I learned a lot about overwriting from that exercise.
 
I'm currently rewriting/adding to the first draft of my first novel. I'm super excited about it, as I've never anticipated to finish a first draft in a few months. And now I'm anxious to see it come together.
It's a kind of postapocalyptic sci-fi, or eco-fiction. It has three parts, and they started off as three different story ideas.
I'm rewriting the third part. My current problem is that I wrote this part first, but now it needs to be chronologically aligned with the first two parts. It also has a very distinct and different voice from the first two parts, and I'm not sure if that will work or not -- or if I should just separate it from the main story. But for the moment I'll try to combine it, do my best, and see what the beta-readers think.
Anyway, I'm at around 73.000 words and very anxious and curious about the next step.
So wish me luck...

and I'm VERY MUCH looking forward to sharing my first chapter/scenes with you guys to get some honest feedback on my writing.
 
Azoraa said:
I'm currently rewriting/adding to the first draft of my first novel. I'm super excited about it, as I've never anticipated to finish a first draft in a few months. And now I'm anxious to see it come together.
It's a kind of postapocalyptic sci-fi, or eco-fiction. It has three parts, and they started off as three different story ideas.
I'm rewriting the third part. My current problem is that I wrote this part first, but now it needs to be chronologically aligned with the first two parts. It also has a very distinct and different voice from the first two parts, and I'm not sure if that will work or not -- or if I should just separate it from the main story. But for the moment I'll try to combine it, do my best, and see what the beta-readers think.
Anyway, I'm at around 73.000 words and very anxious and curious about the next step.
So wish me luck...

and I'm VERY MUCH looking forward to sharing my first chapter/scenes with you guys to get some honest feedback on my writing.
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Congrats and good luck! I'm edging ever closer to the end of the first draft of my WIP, which will be the first time I've gotten that far, and I'm both excited and nervous about the approaching revisions. I already know the front half is going to need a whole lot of work to meet up with the back half.
 
After finishing my first draft of my first novel, I was looking forward to maybe six months doing no writing till I came back to edit it.

Ha-bloody-ha...

After maybe four or five days I'm going insane without anything to write so I've started work on my next project which is a folk horror. I hope.

pH
 
Yes, I've reached what's supposed to be a hiatus so of course I've started writing something else.

I also have some editing to do. At the moment, I'm tending towards just deleting everything and starting anew.
 
Ploughing on with a fantasy romance first draft and doing the research simultaneously so I don't get bored. It's feeling distinctly young adult
 
I'm rewriting and expanding a short story I self-published a couple of years ago. This project started one Friday night I was flipping through channels and watched the show Ancient Aliens. So, I've been enjoying the show's theories to see how much I can incorporate into this plot, while maintaining the original story of a husband struggling with infertility who discovers he.....
 
I'm halfway through the pilot script for a proposed TV series based on my first novel. It's a multiple POV book, so it's a very enjoyable challenge adapting the inner worlds of the characters to a visual medium. It's very much show, don't tell!
 
Steve Harrison said:
I'm halfway through the pilot script for a proposed TV series based on my first novel. It's a multiple POV book, so it's a very enjoyable challenge adapting the inner worlds of the characters to a visual medium. It's very much show, don't tell!
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I just finished the first draft of the pilot episode, which came in at 50 pages/minutes. It feels nice and tight and punchy, though there's a little bit of editing to do. Next task is to divide the remaining 300 pages of the novel into outlines for nine more episodes.
 
Hi,

I just spent the entire night wrestling with this new Cover Creator of Amazon to complete the paperback of Manx. Believe it or not I missed things on my first attempt by 1.6 mm! Apparently there is a rule that text on the spine must be 1.6 mm from the edge and mine was less than that. I'm not even sure I can see 1.6 mm!!! Sigh - I miss the old Cover Creator for CreateSpace. But I also got a new front cover for my next book - Adrift - and it looks awe-bloody-some! So not all bad.

Cheers, Greg.
 
Spine problems with that are not uncommon. I had that problem with Crown of Blood's cover, and my artist made it sound like this happens quite a bit (even when the actual margins are fine, the computer can say no).
 
Hi,

If I'm brutally honest it's probably my fault. I was ambitious. I was trying to make a new book look like a really old leather bound hardback and as part of that the titles on the spine go horizontally. But I never knew there was such a rule. Still the old Cover Creator on CreateSpace was a thousand times easier.

Cheers, Greg.
 
I physically measured the spine (I usually order an author copy). So I know it was a mistake at their end, but computer says no, so it had to be needlessly shrunk to tick the right box.

Ho hum.
 
I have passed my novel on to a beta reader and will send it to a second one soon. I'm dreading their responses, but I also want to get it over with. While I wait, I'm working on the synopsis. I was really struggling to summarize my novel until someone showed me this post from Publishing Crawl: How To Write A 1-Page Synopsis
It's a brilliantly helpful guide. I'm still struggling a bit, but only a third as much as before. My main issue is with clarity. I'm constantly wondering if the information I give is enough for someone unfamiliar with my story to understand why certain things happen. I guess I'll find out when I've finished writing it and hand it off to someone else to read.
 
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