What are you working on right now?

DG Jones said:
Completed and subbed another short story today, which means that... I currently have no WIPs at all! :eek:

So I shall twiddle my thumbs for a few days while I await my Secret Santa assignment, and think about the first draft of my next novel I'm aiming to begin this November.

Happy days :D
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Oh we're meant to be submitting concrete requests now?

Just finishing up a chapter edit. Since I've been good on that and the reviews, I might indulge myself and try some Sword & Conspiracy.

For those who don't know, Sword & Conspiracy is the name for the sub-genre which exists when you mash S&S together with early John Le Carre. You probably don't know, as I've just invented it. I'm mad, but this will work... and more to point, work quicker than all the bloody epic fantasy ideas I keep having.

"Today, all I know is that I have learned to interpret the whole of life in terms of conspiracy. That is the sword I have lived by, and as I look round me now I see it is the sword I shall die by as well. These people terrify me but I am one of them. If they stab me in the back then URK! Aaaarrgh!"
 
The Big Peat said:
Maybe I'll ask for Drinker Slayer Soldier Spy to give me some more ideas :p

(its that or come up with something horrible and bribe you with rum to give it to Me Eyes Mun for lulz)
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Mmmmm. No need to bribe me for those kinda Lulz. Perhaps he would like a story à la 'The Doge Visits London'.

Wow! So bus! Plz Oyster!

I've written over 1.2k tonight and managed to get some larfs in there, too, altho it's probably more Shakespeare insults than Dark Ages...

pH
 
StuartSuffers said:
Just started my first horror sci-fi today. A short, prob 1500 words or so.

I HATE horror, never wrote it before. So, well, that's something.

I think it's based an an old, old, old comic story. Probably late 1950s, a stack of which were delivered to my door when some old neighbour died. Lotta crazy stuff in those crazy (American) comics. Of course, my mother threw them out a year or so later. Probably could be a millionaire now....
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I used to read a lot of comics/graphic novels, not in the late 50s though :). I think they're a great source of inspiration, not only through the graphics, but also because the writers were naturally succinct due to space limitations.

As for being a millionaire, who's to say you won't be :)
 
VinceK said:
I used to read a lot of comics/graphic novels, not in the late 50s though :). I think they're a great source of inspiration, not only through the graphics, but also because the writers were naturally succinct due to space limitations.

As for being a millionaire, who's to say you won't be :)
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Yeah, some of them may have been from the 30's... I'd done some gardening boy scout sort of thing the previous summer, then when he died, his daughter left the comics in. (er, to be pc about it, 'Graphic novels'). Thy were weird weird stuff. (Actually i think some were weird tales.) Anyway, c'est la vie. As for becoming a millionaire now, meh, couple hundred k would prob do....
 
Finished! It ran to 72788 words, I somehow did 12777 of them today which is a personal best. It was great fun to write, I loved the characters, enjoyed creating their world, loved everything about it. I'm taking a break from writing now until next week. In the last 7 weeks I've completed one whole novel and done the first draft of two more. I'm in need of just not writing for a few days.
 
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j.grey said:
Well, first you take the liver of a small boy, the tongue of a dragon, two pinches of powdered sunlight and then you lock yourself in a room, work your arse off and feel a bit bad for the boy and the dragon.
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No mercy!

There can be no mercy!


(or something of that ilk)
 
I want to write a science fiction book about a artificial earth but i'm waiting on my printer form amazon
 
I'm a teacher, I had a summer break so I set myself a target of getting serious as I suspect I won't get time to write much for the rest of the year. I just got on with it. I was very lucky, the travel book I didn't really enjoy but the other two caught my imagination. The 'Human Race' was a very fun character study and 'Hawk-Eye' really got under my skin. I had a very loose outline for HR and just let the characters write themselves so I was finding out what would happen too. HE I had a very strong plot outline to stick to but the characters took over and made things easy. I'm also incredibly fortunate to have a partner in crime, an old friend who proofs, edits and makes horrible comments about my work and he's a child of the 80s like me. He fed back on each chapter as it finished and he was really enthusiastic, which put a little extra fire in my belly to get it finished.
I believe the brain is a muscle. It develops new connections and improves, clearing out the dead wood and building new abilities. It gets better at the ones you focus on, I focus on writing and work hard it at so now my brain is just set up that way. Anyone with a passion for writing who's willing to roll up their sleeves and get dirty will have the same thing. The trick is to never give up, just keep working and working and you'll get better and better and it will come easier and easier.
 
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Another day, another fifty words. I'm definitely improving :) Anyway, off to Colombia now and then the Delta quadrant.
 
I wrote nothing yesterday. NOTHING. I'm suffering post-creative depression (I assume that's a thing.) I spent the morning in a coffee shop folding napkins into little swans out of sheer frustration at not creating anything. This weekend I have two motorcycle projects to finish, I build custom bikes in my spare time and then next week, I'll have to create something.
 
The Big Peat said:
Sure if you want something done give it to a busy person ;)
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Trying to finish the third of my Thumar series. I'm four or five chapters short. Finished, it should be about 1000 pages. Finished and started some more short stories. The first of the Thumar series is close to a final edit, with a finished book cover. I'm hoping to start the publishing process in 2017.
 
So I've been a bit naughty and mono-focused on The Barbarian that Came in from the Cold. Should have done editing and CV stuff but eh.

I've not been absorbed for entirely good reasons however. Fool of a Took that I am, I decided to mess around with my writing style and voice for this. I wanted something more ornate, more high doom. I'm not sure its working. Maybe it will on a redraft. But then, getting the balance of the meld right is not a straight forwards thing.

I also suspect I've got to kill the opening line which as a shame as it was a humdinger, and also the last line. Oh well. More flesh on the carcass means a better stock later.
 
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