What are you working on right now?

Today I killed a woman. It wasn't the zombies fault; her throat was slit.
Anyway, first part of WIP is done. On to part two now, the King's Tourney. No zombies in this bit, just ninjas.

(I suspect I'm having more fun with this project than should be allowed.)
 
Ugh, wip is so, so stalled right now.

Working on a horror thang to get the juices flowing again. Not expecting too much from it, horror really isn't my genre, but using it as a character study piece, since I've been told I don't get into my characters enough. Also trying out first person, which I haven't used before.

(I wrote 3000 words yesterday and gave myself honest-to-goodness nightmares. Has to count for something, right?)
 
Bloodthirsty, Juliana!

I've got a new WiP on the go. Not a great deal is happening in it, and I have no ideas for plot or anything. All I've got is a gardener with a dead boss.
 
About halfway through a new redraft of my WIP. Want to get it, after this redraft, so all the major chunks are there. Got some more additions to write, and hoping the next redraft will be making the continuity sound, before focusing on improving the language and then proofread of doom.
 
Mouse said:
Bloodthirsty, Juliana!

I've got a new WiP on the go. Not a great deal is happening in it, and I have no ideas for plot or anything. All I've got is a gardener with a dead boss.
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That's not new!

I hope this means you've finished your Locke thingy.
 
HareBrain said:
That's not new!
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Shh! I've got back into it. That counts as new. :p

I hope this means you've finished your Locke thingy.
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Ha ha! No. I've just opened up the file to have a look at it. It's 27,726 words, last worked on at the beginning of September, and the last line is:
"I don't need to do it," Max said, annoyed. "It's not like my bollocks'll explode if I don't get my leg over one night."
 
Just started a new spin off of the main wip ( which is at 91.5k) , a horror/ suspense sci-fi. Storyboard, cast and first paragraph done.
 
love Dungeon Siege II
much better than III

have you played Dragon Age... from a narrative (and comedy dialogue), I thought that series rocked.
 
But to the question... I am finishing the designs of the "book covers" for my paperback edition. When I say "I", I actually mean the artistic guy I knew at school - but I'm complaining and picking...
He's genuinely affronted that I don't have a Mac (I'm a PC)

What else am I working on?
- Lots of background reading for Book 2
 
Yay to therapeutic writing!

I'm shrinking the new wip. It's down to 8000 words from 11000, but I think the 3000 that are gone were pretty close to being fit for loo paper and not much more.
 
Still in the process of expanding my WIP (partly for continuity, partly for more character/story development).

It might not be as large as I first thought, but it's still set to be the biggest thingummyjig I've ever written.
 
I'm on about 90,000 words of (maybe, possibly, hopefully) 200,000 words. Our heroine has gone into an enormous workshop to find an engineer who will identify a labourer who was murdered by an evil painting in order to summon the Devil. I'd like to say that this works on paper, but having just typed it, it still looks crazy. And this is supposed to be a serious book.
 
Toby Frost said:
(maybe, possibly, hopefully) 200,000 words.
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I know you're an established author'n'all, but (unless I'm mistaken) this book represents a marked change of direction. You don't anticipate that kind of length causing difficulties selling it?
 
Enthusiasm!

Got a stack of stuff to do in preparation for WynterCon and for the life of me I can't fire a single cylinder, let alone all twelve. :D
 
Good point HareBrain. This is an attempt at epic fantasy, so I reckon that it ought to be long. It's also about four people, each with their own story and point of view, although they are connected and some do meet up at points. So hopefully, it will be more like four interconnected stories of 50,000 words each that tell the overall story from different perspectives. As to whether it works, I've no idea.

I've always wanted to write fantasy, and never really had the chance to get it published, much as I tried. In fact, I've got a couple of books in rough of about 120,000 words each. But yes, it is extremely different to Smith (16th century Europe wasn't really a laughorama), and in a way I'm completely untested in that field. It's a bit of an experiment, but something I've had knocking around in my head for ages.
 
Almost finished with A Hierarchy of Gods. Hope to release it around the end of the month. Also working on the next in the series, The White Shamitz. I'd planned on releasing Nemesis next, but this one is closer to being finished than I remembered, so I may bump it up a notch. Wrote about 20,000 words on Keep of Ages, the first in my Legacy of the Ancients trilogy.
 
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