What are you working on right now?

OHB said:
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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My editor says it's difficult for a writer to assess clarity, because he sees what he meant and not what he wrote.

I also used to dread responses from readers, but now I eagerly await them as they are always challenging and surprising (sometimes infuriating!), which I find - even when I disagree - very beneficial.
 
Hi,

I do my covers in three parts - front back and spine. Can't do that anymore though. CreateSpace used to give you a calculation for spine width. It's basically the number of pages times 0.0026 (creme paper). That gives you the number of dots, for dots per inch. Then divide by 300 since the cover should be at a definition of 300 DPI. Then just add your back cover to your spine to your front and you should have a one piece full book cover (JPEG of course).

Cheers, Greg.
 
Final polishing of my hard SF novel Immortelle that now just requires Lit agents beating a path to my door. It combines the first manned mission to Mars with a rogue asteroid knocked on a collision course with Earth, and the arrival of an alien rock-covered vessel in the Solar System.

I've also finished the cover design. Do you think it works?

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Hi,

I like it but where's his air tank? Also something about the lighting on the figure doesn't quite match with the lighting of the planet.

Cheers, Greg.
 
psychotick said:
Hi,

I like it but where's his air tank? Also something about the lighting on the figure doesn't quite match with the lighting of the planet.

Cheers, Greg.
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Damn. I was hoping for unqualified adulatory praise.

I get the point about the air tank - that was the only image of an astronaut I could find in which the orientation and lighting approximately matched the background image. Let me see if I can dig up something better.
 
Yup. It's the moment he realises he's done for (the rest of his crew are already dead). I'm happy to pass around free pdfs/ebooks to anyone interested. A little appetite whetter: Andy Weir helped me with the Mars Habitat suitcase reactor cooling system that gives up the ghost.
 
Hi,

Adrift is finally out in ebook and paperback! And I don't know what's going on with me lately, but I've just about finished the first draft of the next sci fi - which might be called "Barton Villa - Disunited". It's amazing when you hit one of those writing blitzes where things just seem to run so quickly. (And no - by the way - it has nothing to do with football!)

Cheers, Greg.
 
Right now, I'm working on my current fantasy story called: The Marvelous and Malefic Doomsday Medicine Show.
 
Multiple projects, myself. Mostly character biographies, kind of frozen on Tooninoot, how to go about setting up season three...


Also need to resurrect a similar project to Tooninoot...
 
I'm working on a Fantasy novel called "The Marvelous and Malefic Doomsday Medicine Show" until April 1st, then I'm switching gears and working on a Horror/Romance novel called "Valentina's Feast".
 
Well, besides Tooninoot-an always ongoing project, that, I'm afraid, which may never wind up getting finished :eek:-I have a thought or two from my past bouncing around my head...


So...let me ask...in these dark, trying times of the world, what would opinions be on revisiting a story idea about a hypothalamus-killing virus? :eek:
 
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