What are you working on right now?

My wife wants me to write a short story for our disabled family member for this Halloween. It will be written in a fun and adventures kid/YA fashion about our family member and our two Aussi terriers on a quest with the Great Pumkin (from It's the Great Pumkin, Charlie Brown!)
Thinking of 3-4K. :)
 
I'm making final revisions to the 4th book in my 'Witch's Box' series - 'Half an Empire.' I drafted it a year and a half ago, but had an odd feeling (in view of current events) on looking through it yesterday: it has a sequence where a murderous rampage breaks out without warning, some civilian characters cower in a safe-room, the terrorists are crushed without mercy in a bloody counter-attack by the military, and a failure of intelligence is exposed...
 
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I'm making final revisions to the 4th book in my 'Witch's Box' series - 'Half an Empire.' I drafted it a year and a half ago, but had an odd feeling (in view of current events) on looking through it yesterday: it has a sequence where a murderous rampage breaks out without warning, some civilian characters cower in a safe-room, the terrorists are crushed without mercy in a bloody counter-attack by the military, and a failure of intelligence is exposed...
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Reminds me of when I wrote Sir Edric and the Plague a few years before the pandemic...
 
I'm currently working on Part 3 of my 5 (at least) part story series, called The Adventures of Empress Dopamine. She is a highly intelligent, confident, fearless, yet humble and empathetic female warrior who, through various events, has risen from being a simple princess on a mediocre planet, to now being the Empress over twelve planets, and one of the highest ranking members of the Intergalactic Council of United Planets. Many of the chapters revolve around missions, although there are times of self-discovery, world building, and relationship building as well. This current Part, Part 3, is called The Empress of Time, and is about Dopamine's discovery of time travel and alternate timelines. The topic of this story is so "blank canvas" that it has become both fun and difficult to write, since just about anything can happen, at any time. One of the difficult things for this part is placing the chapters in the correct order to have the most impact, since there is no set chronology in this part of the story. It's definitely the most difficult Part of the series that I've written so far, but I'm enjoying it immensely.
 
Halfway through my first draft of a book in a scifi series, and the muse has forsaken me. Every day is a battle against inertia.
 
I wrote a post about Show, Don't Tell. Why? Because I've had editors use it when they want me to do the opposite of what it actually means. And to do what it means. So, what does it actually mean and how do you use the skills involved? If you're interested, you can check out my blog post for all the goodies (and no doubt imperfect explanation):

Show, Don't Tell | Don R Montgomery
 
I've been surprised by the positive response to my return to SF, specifically of the far-future. Some fans still want me doing that. I've been wondering about something unpublished that I have called the Green Trilogy - Dark Green, Damp Green, Deep Green - set 800,000,000 years in the future. I wrote it with little to go on, and it mutated. It mutated well. The book is essentially the tale of a being in owl form working to represent all planetary life, as the Sun becomes too hot for the Earth to cope with - the end of multicellular life. It's a 'classic style' ideas novel, I suppose, with that main character as its foundation. Recently, I looked some of it over. Maybe I'll get it ready for 2025.

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Hello! I rarely come on here but I'm working on trying to be more sociable and reach out to others, so I'm going to try to make an effort to show up more often.

I'm working on short pieces for my fiction blog (am I allowed to mention it? madgirlscientist.substack.com), and I have a novella I've written and polished, which I'm reading for the two thousandth time to make sure the ending works. Once I'm happy with it, I can format it to be an ebook and put it on Smashwords, along with my eleven others. I am proud of having multiple titles out, even if they are only self-published. If you can't find me on Smashwords or want to see a book for free, let me know and I can help you out.
 
Finally got the pre-order setup done for "Half an Empire", the fourth volume of my "Witch's Box" series. An ebook only this time, (very cheap) though I might consider doing a paperback version later. Now catching up with jobs I was too busy to do, and starting to pick up the final revision of another, unconnected novel. I also need to look over my unpublished short stories and see if I can improve any of them. (Or write some new ones, though my mind remans resolutely blank on this score).
 
Working out a live retelling of Gulliver's Travels but set in outer space and the locations as thinly veiled metaphors for the social media corporations. Looking back at live stuff I tend to curse a lot so was thinking of some ruse where it's a sort of half remembered conversation with someone from planet Vulcan to cheat out most of the swearing as Vulcan objects. It probably needs two people to keep it interesting -one to tell the story and another plant in the audience to yell 'that's a load of cobblers ...you're too old to be part of a star-ship crew' and so on. Fairly sure it'll fall flat on first try but I think there's a good half hour laugh in it with a bit of work.
 
@AnRoinnUltra Yes, I did! It ended up being only 1500 words, but it came out pretty good and is the right length of story for our disabled daughter to follow and enjoy. Even though it is still a rough draft, both my wife and our disabled daughter enjoyed very much. I'll fine tune it this week to get it where I want it to be.

Despite this, my wife feels it would make a good kids book since the MC is disabled herself. Something for me to think about and look into. May have to change the Great Pumpkin name. If I do go for it, I don't want to get into a lawsuit! :)
Then there are the illustrations to deal with.
 
THX1138 said:
@AnRoinnUltra Yes, I did! It ended up being only 1500 words, but it came out pretty good and is the right length of story for our disabled daughter to follow and enjoy. Even though it is still a rough draft, both my wife and our disabled daughter enjoyed very much. I'll fine tune it this week to get it where I want it to be.

Despite this, my wife feels it would make a good kids book since the MC is disabled herself. Something for me to think about and look into. May have to change the Great Pumpkin name. If I do go for it, I don't want to get into a lawsuit! :)
Then there are the illustrations to deal with.
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Deadly, well done ...wouldn't worry about lawsuits -at least not untill you're lying on the beach of a private island on top of a big pile of cash;)
Would ya do the illustrations yourself? You're obviously creative, and the person closest to the characters :unsure:
 
Playing around with ideas for a new project...sci-fi romance where the hero will be investigating evil-doers in the space city where he lives.

Also, writing scenarios for COMMAND: MODERN OPERATIONS.
 
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