What are you working on right now?

You won't get bitten by Sir Edric.

Unless you want him to, obviously.
 
Halfway through a drunken walk home from the Chrons meetup, I had an idea for a novel. Which I'm now making lots of notes about - not something I've done before (but then I've never had an idea good enough for a novel before), and I'm discovering that I'm really enjoying it.
 
Back onto the edit. A slow painstaking process getting out all those 'weasle words' such as 'that' and 'felt' where not needed, changing from tabbed to style based layout, and keep having to go back and check other things so have only got to the end of chapter nine. Still, it's progress.:)
 
Editing some short stories, the first of which will be online and available to read in about a month. Any takers? :)
 
Finally untangling the mess my stalled WIP had got into. One scene, I was inserting at the 20,000 word mark, that has been half finished for 12 months will be finished today. Then I have to re-read the other 30,000 words that come after and insert a couple more scenes, hopefully they won't take me 12 months to finish.

New novel started, but only at 1000 words, but the scene is going ok.

Maybe the drought and doubt has finally gone....
 
"The Mission's Talent" is at about 17.8K words and I thought a complete framework (just lots of stuff skipped). But I'm thinking the ending might only be the start of the "real" mission.
So I won't work on it for a while, but think about how the plot might be extended to a later ending.

I think I need new titles for "Quadrivium Genie-Sys" and "Quadrivium Secundus", or maybe just for the second one of the series.
 
Mouse said:
I thought there was a thread like this, but I've searched back and the only one I could find was 'What do we all write?' which isn't really what I mean.

So, this'll be interesting. We all like talking about ourselves...

What are you working on, writing wise, right now. It can be editing, research, short stories, novel, comp entries. Anything you're working on, I want to hear about. As long as it's related to writing. If you're fixing your car or something, I don't care.

At the moment I'm mostly working on the revisions from the publisher with allmywires, but when I'm not doing that, I'm working on my Allery story.

More specific? Today, I had to add more kink to the romance. The publisher liked a certain scene we had, but wanted more pre-scene stuff. So it meant I had to put a weird search thing into Google. I won't share. :D But I ended up adding almost 400 words.

With my Allery story I'm currently researching lots of drug abuse stuff. One of my characters is a junkie. I was watching a vid on YouTube about a guy in prison going through withdrawals and learning about how the veins in your arms kinda disappear.

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Trying to finish the third book in my unpublished series. Just two or three chapters from the finish line for the first draft. It's almost as if I don't want to let it go. Trying to work out an edit for the first of the series. The book cover is done and ready to go along with other important details.
 
Tim Murray said:
Trying to finish the third book in my unpublished series. Just two or three chapters from the finish line for the first draft. It's almost as if I don't want to let it go. Trying to work out an edit for the first of the series. The book cover is done and ready to go along with other important details.
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Wow, I know how you feel. Sometimes, everything is all lined up, but it's so hard to press the "publish" button because we aren't 100% sure of everything. Best of luck!
 
LittleStar said:
I've just today finished my 4 book series, first drafts. I started on New Years Day and gave myself until today to finish it. So, Right on target. In total it comes out to 343,764 words (about a quarter are probably spelled wrong). On top of them .
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WOW, you wrote 4 books in two months?

Mind. Blown.
 
A few years ago, I came across a post in the blog Beyond Victoriana which talked about Mongolian book bandits - which were a real thing. Chinese novels, translated into Mongolian, were big business in the late 19thC, and bandits would attack the book caravans to steal the books! So I thought "Someone should write about that." And then I thought "I should write about that."
So I sent my Steampunk lady adventurers into Mongolia (to find a lost expedition), where they met the book bandits, who are all female in my version of history, and The Secret of Saynshand is now up on Smashwords.
So now I've taken Li Bic, my Chinese-American character from the first story, and sent her to spy school - working for the British Empire. Her first solo mission is to Manchester's Chinatown - I didn't want to add to the many stories about London, and my home city is Manchester, and I've been thinking that somebody should really write a Steampunk novel set in Manchester.... so I'm in the middle of the research now, which is proving to be great fun. My gran may appear as a minor character - she worked at the Manchester Press Club.
 
Verity said:
A few years ago, I came across a post in the blog Beyond Victoriana which talked about Mongolian book bandits - which were a real thing. Chinese novels, translated into Mongolian, were big business in the late 19thC, and bandits would attack the book caravans to steal the books! So I thought "Someone should write about that." And then I thought "I should write about that."
So I sent my Steampunk lady adventurers into Mongolia (to find a lost expedition), where they met the book bandits, who are all female in my version of history, and The Secret of Saynshand is now up on Smashwords.
So now I've taken Li Bic, my Chinese-American character from the first story, and sent her to spy school - working for the British Empire. Her first solo mission is to Manchester's Chinatown - I didn't want to add to the many stories about London, and my home city is Manchester, and I've been thinking that somebody should really write a Steampunk novel set in Manchester.... so I'm in the middle of the research now, which is proving to be great fun. My gran may appear as a minor character - she worked at the Manchester Press Club.
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What a cool idea! I'm all about Chinese-American characters, and the idea of Mongolions stealing book caravans blows my mind. Makes me wonder what important book they stole. Looking up The Secret of Saynshand as we speak.
 
Thanks! Li Bic started off as a side kick to my Steampunk alter ego Amelia Harper, until I realised that I needed someone who could talk to the locals as they travelled through China, and Bic took over!
 
Word vomit, and I mean that in the best possible way. I'm letting the story flow out through my fingertips. I'll revise, flesh out, and edit later. I have a little over 15K words, and I still feel the need to keep typing. 10-15K is usually where I lose steam.
 
I thought I was nearly done with this short story... but noooooo... the characters just wanna keep dragging it out!!
 
Soooo tempted to put down what I'm working on and start something new. I'm 20k words in on a fully planned sequel to what I wrote last year, but I have a fresh new idea and I'm also questioning the value in time spent now writing a sequel to something that hasn't had any traction yet with agents/publishers. I've had some positive thanks but no thanks messages which are encouraging me to take a different look at a new story, but set in the same world (maybe). Apply everything I've learned over the first book and come up with something better maybe, because I actually think the end of my first book is way stronger than the beginning in both pacing and stylistically.
 
Is it an either/or choice? You can work on two large projects at once.
 
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