What are you working on right now?

[Ray McCarthy]

The current WIP hasn't got a final title. Something like "Search for the Crimmall" or "The Stolen Spear of Lightning".

Needs major re-write. I think I'll write the ending and work backwards a bit

Reading and watching needs to be sequential. Writing and "filming" is best in the order that aids production.

 

[psychotick]

Hi,

Finished and published Banshee Hunt yesterday, just in time for Christmas - yeah! Still have to do the paperback version.

And still have to think about new editors for my last book Spaced which my own editor says is too disturbing!

But suddenly found myself possessed by a new thought and have started writing a new urban fantasy - no name for it yet but its 8K long.

Oh the perils of pantsterism!!!

Cheers, Greg.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

Banshee

Lady Mound is literal translation. Ban = Woman, and Sidhe, Sí, Shee = Mound. Fair Folk = People of the Mounds (Aos Sí, Aesh Shee, Aés Sidhe). Later became associated with other things.
We now have Ban Garda (female Police)

 

[psychotick]

Hi,

Obviously that was what Fergi was singing about when she sings about her "lady lumps"!

Cheers, Greg.

 

[Juliana]

Researching ideas for the propulsion system for my transports... The research bit is always fun, it's like a treasure hunt, or perhaps a scavenger hunt, looking for bits of clues to piece together.

 

[Susan Boulton]

Taking baby steps at the moment, with the stalled WIP and a couple of new ideas. I haven't done any major writing for quite awhile, I needed to wait I feel until things were right, and I was ready to start putting my heart back on the page. Am I? Only the next few months will tell.

 

[subtletylost]

One of the most fascinating things I've ever done in my life, is the world-building that I'm attempting right now. Attempting to figure how magic would be used to augment technology in a world where magic existed first, attempting to figure out if there is any hatred between Humans and Elves in that world, thinking about different ways that Dwarves could have decided to seek Elven help for making smaller technologies, thinking about the kind of logic they would have used to decide not to pursue guns as weaponry after the initial attempts proved less than helpful--and less useful than a crossbow, considering the different government systems that must exist in that world, considering religious differences between Humans and the Elves that refuse to live inside the Human settlements, and other things that go into making an amazing world.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

Trying to refine my Dwarf / Elf conflict (they are like small Africans and tall Scandinavians, in a sense, and same species) in my "Otherworld" series. It's complicated by fact that there are "real" Elves and "real" Dwarves not in that "Otherworld" that are not the same species as each other or the "Otherworld" creatures. The Exiled humans on the "Otherworld" named the locals as "Elves" and "Dwarves".

 

[millymollymo]

The last of the preliminary research is in. Words will commence on a Shiny New Thing (Fantasy novel without a doubt) while I continue to procrastinate about the two shorts in 'Still Sat On Other Peoples Desks' mode. Time to rattle some inboxes I think.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Galaxy of Flowers. I'm working on the sexy bits...

 

[LittleStar]

Galaxy of Flowers. I'm working on the sexy bits...

You've done it again with the title, Jo. I'm very much intigued! You must tell me how, I'm struggling to come up with anything more than 'New Novel' for my next project.

New Novel(s) is well and truly ready, world built, characters built, scenes built, everything built. I just need to write the four books and am looking forward to starting in a couple of days. It's going to be a very hard two months I think

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Heh, thank you - it was the title of a 75er I developed it from.

 

[subtletylost]

I'm practicing fantasy writing by... writing Dragon Age fanfic. If nothing else, it's given me reason to work on descriptions and be glad for knowing how to research. I wonder, how much force a it would take for a fully grown female grey wolf to break someone's leg by stepping on it, or if they even could. I doubt it wouldn't hurt afterwards even if not broken. I've managed to come up with an interesting title for it at least: Secrets Well Kept and a subtitle "sometimes shared, never told".

 

[Ray McCarthy]

how much force a it would take for a fully grown female grey wolf to break someone's leg by stepping on it

That sounds remarkably unlikely. Though a man broke a femur (strong leg bone) doing yoga.

 

[psychotick]

Hi,

Yeah sorry Fishii - can't imagine any wolf managing that. They just aren't heavy enough. But a dire wolf maybe? Also consider the angle of attack. The weakest a leg would be woul be side on and at full stretch. So if your victim was lying on his side, his foot up on say a rock, and a dire wolf pounced on it, landing full force on the side of the knee - maybe?

Cheers, Greg.

 

[subtletylost]

I wasn't even sure if the wolf could, but considering the elf was alredy injured before the wolf stepped on her, at the very least she'd have a nasty bruise and it would certainly have accomplished waking her up, which was what I wrote that it did.

When I tried to research it I came across a lot of superstitions about legs, wolves, and breaking things, as well as information about surviving dog attacks, but not much on how much weight a wolf puts on a single leg when it steps nor how much weight would crack or break a bone. maybe I was just looking up the wrong things though. Right now my effort is focused on making this transitory chapter plot worthy AND character worthy at the same time before I decide whether or not it'll end up being cut.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

Of course if the person is a mythical fantastic WINGED person, he/she likely has hollow bones and can easily have rib, arm, leg etc broken by a fox never mind a wolf.
A real wolf won't break a normal human's leg. Unless the human falls badly, even then a wrist is most likely. Or badly twist ankle / break bone running away from a wolf (better to stand still and not be afraid)

 

[Brian G Turner]

I wonder, how much force a it would take for a fully grown female grey wolf to break someone's leg by stepping on it,

Not heavy enough. However, our youngest German Shepherd routinely bruises our legs when he decides to "paw" us for attention. He just doesn't realise how powerful he is.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

He just doesn't realise how powerful he is.

Perhaps

Bruising can occur quite easily, and varies in how visible it is with different people.

 

[subtletylost]

All this fascinating input about the wolf and the leg. I love it. The elf in questionis smaller than most of the other adults in the story (accept the Dwarves), but even so, bruising seems the best bet considering I had her standing on the leg and attacked by another wolf not even five minutes after getting stepped on by the first one.

Bruising is weird, I've had bruises show up on my legs and arms before when I hadn't even done anything accept lay on the couch because I wasn't feeling well. I've bruised foot by sitting on it weirdly before, and I've walked into metal doors and brick walls before without a resulting bruise on my face. Maybe I'm just the weird on though.