What are you working on right now?

Deep into another re-write of my main WIP. Trying to do a chapter or so at a time and when I get bogged down in the narrative and info dumping I go off and do a vibrant short to remind myself why I enjoy writing so much.

Currently a Steam Punk short and a SciFi short.
 
82.5k. Few hundred words needed to tighten two scenes then i'm done for the weekend. Lovely hitting targets early.
 
Wrote about 500 words of Sleepy Grove in a very noisy Starbucks. The story is growing organically and I like it :)
 
Finishing off Sir Edric's Treasure. Also got my eye on the first major redraft of Kingdom Asunder, and a mystery project.
 
Wrote a 769 word piece of the main WiP tonight, not bad considering a fairly long hiatus due to self doubt, motivation issues and a few troubles (hence little activity here too). We submitted the first 50 pages as an unfinished work a while back which felt a bit odd (this work has been a long time in the making).
So, up to around 81k words of what will most likely end up something like 120k word opening novel. Having a meeting tomorrow morning involving much talking and many cups of coffee (gawd bless brewers fayre and their refillable Costa coffee for a superb £2.50, we definitely get our moneys worth).
Hopefully get back on track now, planning a full draft by the end of the year and a rewrite early 2015.
 
Finished this round of content edits. Now I need to go over it all once again checking for some of my personal style and grammar demons.

First five chapters may need to be bashed around the head a bit more though...
 
65K into the second part of my trilogy. Currently doing an action sequence which is fast paced, so it is flowing nicely in structure but I can see it'll be a beast to polish to keep the sense of speed whilst still making it seem realistic. But that's another day's job. Right now it's getting the framework down.
 
Hi,

Ever have one of those days? Yesterday I spent most of it going through the first edit of The Godlost Land. I got the first edit back about a week ago and have been slowly ploughing through it. Trouble is yesterday I basically had to rewrite two whole chapters - which is a pain in the arse. That was bad. What was worse though was that I managed to plough through maybe 15 pages - incredibly slow. Then, when my eyeballs were glazing over, I finished up and as usual checked my page count. It had increased from 405 to 424. In short I rewrote 15 pages and gained an extra 4 pages to edit!

I'm actually going backwards!

Cheers, Greg.
 
Rather surprised to find that I've written a third of a new project. Not sure if it's any good though. I'm taking a break from that to write an entirely silly post-apocalyptic piece in the style of a French art-house film. I've no idea what I'll do with it.
 
Back to edits. There's no way around it; going to have to completely rewrite the first five chapters. The rest is smooth as silk, but the beginning is still a big, info-dumpy mess. Everything else flows so well, it's not fair to jeopardize the quality just because I'm afraid to do a measly 5-chapter-rewrite! Boo. Don't like revision. I want to work on my new thing.
 
Juliana, I suspect I'm going to have to thoroughly change the first few chapters of my WIP too. To be honest, I prefer massive change to small change, because you can write almost a new first draft (if you see what I mean) rather than fiddling with something that's already there and trying to bend it into a new shape.
 
Thought I'd post on behalf of @No One, seeing as he doesn't post much these days but has gone rather mental on a new project. Even worse, it's a film script which is supposed to be my thing! He's been enjoying himself with a great deal of research and is already twenty pages into it all. I'm feeling a little ignored, though ;)
 
I've finished last major revision of current WIP, working Title "The Apprentice's Talent" (The Orb of Ghillion: Vol1 Circle College). Basically started beginning of July, but some story elements from 1995. I've re-written Ch1 of "Jorath's Quest" (1993, last edit of everything else was 1994!) from scratch and will revise the rest. I was only the start that was really bad. Plan is to self publish "Jorath's Quest" (58K Young Adult Fantasy. pretty much a standalone Story) and try current 101K word "The Apprentice's Talent" with agents etc. I need someone though to do a final edit on both.
in the "The Apprentice's Talent" "universe" (which has our contemporary real Earth) I now clearly see:
II: "The Journeyman's Talent"
after a little gap
III: "The Master's Talent" (The Apprentice in Book I is the Master and she has a class of apprentices and a 1:1 Journeyman Student studying to be a master).
Partially parallel with "The Journeyman's Talent" is "The voyage of the Intergal 1" (a better title is needed. A Starship that travels to another Galaxy, we meet it and some of the crew in Ch 1 of "The Apprentice's Talent" when they are diverted to Earth prior to leaving the Milky Way for 1st time.)
From end of Intergal1 and ending before the "The Master's Talent" is a story about Earth's first Starship. I'm afraid not with the idealistic aims of the Start Trek Federation. But goals and politics more like you'd imagine if we started building it next year. Earth also is deluded into thinking (by themselves) it's only in building Fusion Plants and Starships they are "behind". On the surface based on what they know, it's an almost logical delusion. Will there be an asymmetrical war where BOTH sides think they have a massive advantage? You'll have to wait and see. I don't know yet :)

I wish I had stuck at the writing back in 1987, 1991 or 1994! Or started again in 2004 as I considered.

One needs self discipline as well as Imagination, practice, technique and skill :(
 
86.5k I'm about to write my one and only ''battle'' sequence. I've got a few issues on pov/chapter timings but my main issue is the angle to take it. Do i give a colder, almost birds eye view of the battle through Wyn's eyes (who stands on a hill top looking down on it all) Or do i go in for the deeper, confusing grind from Stranger pov (who is charging through the melee) Or do i do both with shorter chapters? Start with Wyn then switch to Stranger.

Oh the dilemma! hehe.
 
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