What are you working on right now?

msstice said:
a SF story set in our solar system
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Count me in for that, any teasers on the plot?
Am working on a stand up comedy bit for a show next month, decided to give it a go to get a bit of live feedback on where the writing was at. Tried it to a small group last night and it didn't work. Tis a learning experience -live stuff seems very specific, and needs to arrive at the point quicker than a 75 worder.
 
AnRoinnUltra said:
Count me in for that, any teasers on the plot?
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Do I hear a beta reader offer :giggle:. If so, I'll be ready probably after draft 3, which will be <checks calendar, checks word count-o-meter> late next year. It would be awesome for me to have other eyes look it over.

It's "realistic" SF. No breakage of the laws of physics, but there are some wild advances in technology.
 
msstice said:
Do I hear a beta reader offer :giggle:. If so, I'll be ready probably after draft 3, which will be <checks calendar, checks word count-o-meter> late next year. It would be awesome for me to have other eyes look it over.

It's "realistic" SF. No breakage of the laws of physics, but there are some wild advances in technology.
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Yeah, will do -love 'local' sci-fi, reminds me of classic stuff ...won't be anything more than a random punter on the internets opinion though;)
 
A weird space opera/espionage thing about a man fighting poachers on another planet, who gets drawn into a conspiracy to assassinate the son of a dictator. I'm not sure how much of this thing I'm going to write or where it's going to go (if anywhere) but it's entertaining me and I tend to find that I miss having something to work on otherwise.
 
A NaNoWriMo project which appears to be turning into a YA novel. I say "appears" because I'm doing what wrimos call "pantsing"...writing with very little preparation. I don't hit the daily word count often and doubt I'll hit the end-of-month quota, but what matters is that I'm writing each day.
 
Amy Symilton said:
Hello, I'm a new member here. I hope I can learn helpful tips from this community as an author.

Right now, I'm working on a novel. It's my first and the only novel I ever made but....it's not completed yet, I would probably make another if I finished working on my novel. My novel used elements from fantasy, a bit of scifi since I used modern time setting but I also put elements from folklore, myth, magic and supernatural. Not an easy novel to write but...I was thinking hard for the climax scene of this novel right now.

I admit though....getting the idea of what happen next when you're writing a story based on your imagination isn't easy. Damn....I guess writing is a hard journey for me especially when it comes to turning your imagination into a text for the story.
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hey Amy Symilton how are you :)

Your Novel sounds very cool and open to anything which has you say is part of the problem your facing in wrapping up the Novel.

Firstly have you made progress on this issues 1.5 is there anyways we can help and 2 what are you looking for, elements, moments, things that need to wrap up ect to reach the ending.

Hope its going well Good Luck take care hugs :)

Regards - Declan Sargent
 
Current comic strip was sparked off by me misreading a panel in someone else's strip ("Where do you get all your ideas from?" answer number 27: Misreading something then realising what I THOUGHT I read was funnier than what I HAD read.) A couple of moments later I had a punchline derived from that misreading in my head.... then it was a matter of going back and filling in some panels of coherent dialogue and action to get to that punchline.

Now I've got to draw the bugger...


I suspect this is going to be one of those ones that gives me a lot of trouble because I will obsess for hours about the placing of the word bubbles and the directions their tails are pointing. They need to be just right or the joke won't work.
 
AnRoinnUltra said:
Am working on a stand up comedy bit for a show next month, decided to give it a go to get a bit of live feedback on where the writing was at. Tried it to a small group last night and it didn't work. Tis a learning experience -live stuff seems very specific, and needs to arrive at the point quicker than a 75 worder.
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You have my sympathy. There is nothing as disheartening as having a joke fall flat in front of an audience. I've never done stand-up but have done plays and panto and there are times when you just want to grab the audience by its collective throat and yell "LAUGH, YOU BASTARDS! IT'S FUNNY!" Then, the next night, a different crowd will be wetting the seats at every line.
 
JunkMonkey said:
You have my sympathy. There is nothing as disheartening as having a joke fall flat in front of an audience. I've never done stand-up but have done plays and panto and there are times when you just want to grab the audience by its collective throat and yell "LAUGH, YOU BASTARDS! IT'S FUNNY!" Then, the next night, a different crowd will be wetting the seats at every line.
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Thanks. Ah, they were right! Sci-fi can be a hard sell and I shoulda stuck to stuff about family and daily irks. Never did anything like that before but a lad who did echoed exactly what you say -seemingly one night the roof lifts with laughter, 24hrs later it's silence. Suppose it depends on the crowd, and the quantity of booze involved;)
 
Right now - stuck for strips I REALLY want to do. (I have notebooks full of strips that I thought funny at the time - will think are funny again but aren't screaming, "DRAW ME!" at the moment - I'm doodling a cover for a comic book I'll never get round to making and testing out and trying a few new wrinkles and techniques as I do so. This is my standard holding pattern - I'm not sure what to work on next but I need to keep doing something behaviour.

As an inadvertent consequence of the doodling, I started a chain of thoughts that woke me up at 6am this morning. well before my usual surfacing time. with what turned out to be a four page strip bursting to get out of my head. It took me an hour to get it roughed out - at which point I went back to sleep for a couple of hours. It was still funny when Ii looked at it in the cold light of day so I may do that one next.

Once I've finished the cover for Sexy Robot Jungle Girl Adventures #1
 
At this moment I’m working on my first book. I roughly drafted it up and had drawn on my real life and the life of someone I know, and I don’t know really if I can publish it. I think it’s really good, but said person had some discomfort about it. Not to mention the numerous others I wrote about.

The kind of fiction that I’d like to write, it’s hard to pinpoint exactly, and maybe sounds lame, but it’s about cold people. Cold people in a cold world. I can never stop thinking about how much better this world of people would be if we all had more sympathy for eachother. Especially in the online world, how if you do or say something, (not that I ever have), that goes against the grain- then you’re a pariah. I just think it’s hypocrisy, and I want to write about that, in a kind of humorous way.
 
in a cha-cha-cha kind of update, i have *finally* finished a first draft of Project: TFL, which rolls in at just under 105k. i'm aiming to enlist a couple of beta readers in January for that. and now i've made a start of Empire Dance vol.7 too!

cha-cha-cha!
 
I just turned in an R&R for a semi-autobiographical PB and I'm now busting out a very rough first draft during NaNoWriMo for a second book in series of a sci-fi STEM CB that I also have on R&R.
 
@JunkMonkey
Sorry!

R&R is revise and resubmit, when an editor asks for a revision then wants you to resubmit before offering to send to Acquisitions.

PB is picture book

NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month, which is in November

STEM is science technology engineering Mathematics

CB is chapter book
 
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