What are you working on right now?

Elckerlyc said:
my brand new website
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Link? Don't speak Dutch but am curious (love the sound of the language, and might also borrow some words to make English sound like it's from outer space -will put them back when I'm finished;)
Well done
 
AnRoinnUltra said:
Link? Don't speak Dutch but am curious (love the sound of the language, and might also borrow some words to make English sound like it's from outer space -will put them back when I'm finished;)
Well done
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Thx. It was fun designing it. I must say I'm curious as to what others think of how it looks.
So, I'll exchange the link with you for some feedback. :D

link to 'TonSchevan writes'
 
Elckerlyc said:
Thx. It was fun designing it. I must say I'm curious as to what others think of how it looks.
So, I'll exchange the link with you for some feedback. :D

link to 'TonSchevan writes'
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Great work -just had a quick look but I'll be back. Can't fault the design -it's fast, responsive and easy to navigate. The only thing I could see that was tricky were the two menus (L & R of the header on the mobile version, they work better on desktop I think); there was nothing to show they were different so a casual reader might miss stuff but, ya know, random person on the internet and all that and nobody ever might miss that.
Anyhow -well done, looks class (y)
 
It was designed with desktop in mind. I never use a mobile for surfing if I can help it, so didn't pay much attention to that.
Not sure how I can solve that issue. I like the way the 2 different menus work.

Edit: I just checked how it looks on my own mobile. I think I'll need to add a hint for mobile users on the front-page, somewhere.
 
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My WIP is out to beta readers. Cover is done, copy is done. Once I get comments back, it'll be time for proofreading, then format and publish. Oh, it all sounds so easy from here!

This is The Signet Ring, first volume in a series of adventures involving the Trouvères, a performing troupe set in an alternate history Europe called Altearth. I'm writing the second volume now--The Tower of Guard--and plotting the others as a form of Productive Procrastination.
 
My MG horror/fantasy is with my agent now. I still need to do some minor edits but it'll be a month before she gets around to it and it's in a Google doc so I can edit as I sit in her queue.
 
HareBrain said:
Sounds like a car I used to have.


Eek! Top marks if you can keep your editing to less than 8 hours a day.
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Hmm, editing takes me a couple of hours total. At least, the final edits. All my work is sent to CPs as I go along so the complete draft is usually fairly clean. Then I know my agent will have suggestions, and a potential editor will have more, so I find it's pointless to fiddle with it too much at this stage.
 
Mouse said:
I thought there was a thread like this, but I've searched back and the only one I could find was 'What do we all write?' which isn't really what I mean.

So, this'll be interesting. We all like talking about ourselves...

What are you working on, writing wise, right now. It can be editing, research, short stories, novel, comp entries. Anything you're working on, I want to hear about. As long as it's related to writing. If you're fixing your car or something, I don't care.

At the moment I'm mostly working on the revisions from the publisher with allmywires, but when I'm not doing that, I'm working on my Allery story.

More specific? Today, I had to add more kink to the romance. The publisher liked a certain scene we had, but wanted more pre-scene stuff. So it meant I had to put a weird search thing into Google. I won't share. :D But I ended up adding almost 400 words.

With my Allery story I'm currently researching lots of drug abuse stuff. One of my characters is a junkie. I was watching a vid on YouTube about a guy in prison going through withdrawals and learning about how the veins in your arms kinda disappear.

Your turn.
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Right now, I'm writing a follow up sequel to a story I wrote about two years ago. My story is a little....weird but it does have some sci-fi elements so hoping to get feedback here
 
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I've abandoned the novel I've been struggling with and finally started work on a major novel project I've had in mind for the last three decades. It's a Vatican-set thriller which may or may not have a supernatural element - in additional to the religious stuff - but I won't know for sure until a major plot twist near the halfway mark. It's going to take a couple of years to write at least.

I'm hoping to spend a week or two in Rome later this year, so have some specific research planned.
 
I neglected an important step in my Things To Do After It's Done: marketing.

And that means revisiting the books and articles on how to do a launch (new series), Amazon keywords, all that nightmare, because so long elapses between books for me, I've forgotten most of what I read. *sigh* It also (marketing) is going to push the actual release out even further, because promos and suchlike need to be scheduled, usually months in advance. *more sighing*
 
>I absolutely hate that stuff
I don't hate it, it's just that I'm not very good at it and so everything takes longer than it should. And I'm pretty sure I could be getting better return on my time invested.

But not advertising is a guaranteed way to have my books disappear utterly. So that's not an option.
 
Toby Frost said:
I feel for you. I absolutely hate that stuff. It flicks the setting in my brain to "depressed".
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sknox said:
>I absolutely hate that stuff
I don't hate it, it's just that I'm not very good at it and so everything takes longer than it should. And I'm pretty sure I could be getting better return on my time invested.

But not advertising is a guaranteed way to have my books disappear utterly. So that's not an option.
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What is it about the marketing of your books that gets you so bad?

I've never got any of my fiction to a level at which I can even think about publishing, but as I'm from a marketing background, I'd love to help answer any questions or make it less depressing :D


As for me, I've literally just written my blurb for my new project. I've come at it from a very different perspective, but as I don't have a real outline, I've not got a character list or location yet, and I'm not even decided how 'magical' the world is, not sure it's really worth sharing. But it's my first new work in a long time, so I'm happy for the start.
 
Briefly, it's something that I've got no talent towards. I find anything involving maths or statistics almost impossible to follow. If I have any particular talent, it's for writing. This is galling because I know that someone who knows how to game the system could write a novel that was absolute rubbish, and still sell a hundred times as many copies as me. It's not so much that I think I'm great, more that I don't know how to do my own work justice.
 
Toby Frost said:
Briefly, it's something that I've got no talent towards. I find anything involving maths or statistics almost impossible to follow. If I have any particular talent, it's for writing. This is galling because I know that someone who knows how to game the system could write a novel that was absolute rubbish, and still sell a hundred times as many copies as me. It's not so much that I think I'm great, more that I don't know how to do my own work justice.
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You'll hate this:

:D
 
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