What are you working on right now?

I've got a deadline for Mayhem so plugging away.

Got feedback on my sitcom but not sure how much I agree with it but think it's good enough that I can use some quotes from it to try and get an agent so I'm reworking the sitcom a little.

And I've suddenly found my poets soul and seem to be churning some of them out.
 
I have - for the fourth time, now - binned pretty much all of my third attempt at Sour Ground and am rebuilding it from scratch. It's only 23K so I'm not too bothered, and contrary to what you'd expect, I'm more motivated now. The changes involve a massively different character set in the contemporary time period, and a cleaner theme.

In addition, I got over my one-thing-at-a-time rule and have been working on 2 shorts; the experimental one for my Chrons blog - The Scrapyard - which seems to be gathering momentum for me, and Thaw.

It goes without saying I'm trying to come up with something for SS5, too. ;)

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Just finished the first draft of my "Prison break" fantasy today. 126,000 words in 14 months. Some of them aren't terrible.

I've always found finishing a novel to be a slightly surreal experience: on the one hand I'm relieved to have finished, and on the other I'm already thinking about my next project. Usually it's a bit of a sprint-finish, but this novel's been a bit of a slow finale, perhaps because I know the manuscript needs work before a human can read it without thinking "oh, my lord, that's terrible."

I should also mention I have just returned from the pub, and if there are any spelling mistakes I blame the beer!
 
Almost everything.

Because of various reasons I won't bore people with, two/three have been delayed. So, whilst awaiting final notes to polish them off, I'm also trying to finish a full-sized comedy. Got a fourth comedy outlined, plans for a sequel to one of my WIP's ready to go (written a few thousand words).

At this rate I'll end up releasing half a dozen books in 2018.
 
Jo Zebedee said:
Working on Teardrops in the Sky very slowly, due to deciding to promote more than write.... :) but I have a lot already completed, so feel I have thr luxury to kick back and take things a bit slower.
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You have a knack for making titles that grab me straight away... Kindly keep writing so I can read them :) That is all.
 
Well as I just put book 1 out for sale, I'm re-reading book 2 for tiny facts I forgot to make a note of, so I can then finish book 3. :)

I bought a special notepad for the jotting in, just for that.
 
I put the second draft of Vindication on hold to deal with a couple short stories.

The first is part of my creative writing application major and isn't science fiction. It topped out at 1700 words.
The second I intend as a magazine submission. That one I'm forecasting at 10-12k words.
Vindication in the meanwhile is sitting around 10k and looks like it's going to reach about 100k words.
 
DCBastien said:
I bought a special notepad for the jotting in, just for that.
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I do love special notebooks!

As for me, I'm just over halfway through my YA to MG conversion rewrite. Feeling pretty happy about the whole thing; still rough around the edges (that's what first drafts are meant to look like, right?) but so much tighter that its previous YA incarnation. :)
 
Good luck @Juliana for me I'm starting a new WIP because the idea was pushing its way out of my brain. I am having a blast with the new thing already so that's a good sign. I will let Sleepy sit for a while and work on this baby for a while. Also need to work on Psekrit santa!
 
I've started a new WIP but past experience makes me hesitate in thinking it will turn into much. I have a real problem ever finishing my projects -- hopefully this one will be different.
 
I'm working on my Sekrit Appsignment for Pseptember, which is, um, evolving.

I've made a start on something new and exciting, novel-wise - I came unstuck in the plotting halfway through but I'm kind of tempted to just write the dang thing and see where it takes me and see if it resolves itself organically...

And some ideas for a new little short are bubbling around. So all good in the hood, I'd say!
 
Inspiration struck in the shower. Ha, where else, right. Now to go back and rewrite a big chuck of book 2. Then, of course, deal with the other issues.
 
I've mostly been working on short, slice-of-life stories lately. I still have a major fantasy/dystopian story that I've been wanting to finish and then edit (I started it a few years ago), but I'm slowly giving up on that notion. I don't think I'll ever manage to find a satisfactory way to continue where I last left off.
 
Anushka Mokosh said:
I've mostly been working on short, slice-of-life stories lately. I still have a major fantasy/dystopian story that I've been wanting to finish and then edit (I started it a few years ago), but I'm slowly giving up on that notion. I don't think I'll ever manage to find a satisfactory way to continue where I last left off.
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If I may be so bold, Anushka. Why not select the piece that inspires you the most and concentrate your efforts there. I have a track record of three completed novels that are now sleeping with the fishes. I had to go on that journey to arrive at a story that did inspire me. Either way, good luck.
 
Droflet said:
If I may be so bold, Anushka. Why not select the piece that inspires you the most and concentrate your efforts there. I have a track record of three completed novels that are now sleeping with the fishes. I had to go on that journey to arrive at a story that did inspire me. Either way, good luck.
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Well, it's mostly that I can't find anything in that novel I started that appeals to me anymore and I spent so much time on it that I'm a bit lost right now as to what exactly it is that I want to write. So, I just try to write short stories to entertain myself.
 
Good idea. As long as you write as often as you can, and, of course, read regularly, you'll find you're writing muse. The idea I had fifteen years ago hasn't changed all that much. Well, a bit, maybe. Point is, if you keep doing the above, something will come to you. It did for me and for ten of those years I had zero support. Then, I stumbled into this lovely place. You're lucky. You've found Chrons prior to the onset of grey hairs.
 
Hi,

Well on the fifth of August my muse came, held me up at gun point and said new book - start writing boy! Yesterday just before the witching hour I sent down my 157k first draft of "Spaced" to be beta'd. Lord I'm tired!!!

Cheers, Greg.
 
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