What are you working on right now?

VinceK said:
Or perhaps creative burnout?
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No, desperate to get back to it. I've got to get some work done on some bikes this weekend so I'm trying to keep a few days clear. I'm back to it on Monday. I love writing, it's in my blood, like too much caffeine, alcohol and maybe syphilis.
 
End of the week, another page turned in the book of life. Pizza and wine, Steve and Javier and then maybe an incursion into Borg territory.
 
At the moment, articles;

For my publisher's website.

My new blog on my own website.

Guest blog posts on forums and blogs.

Plus all the other promotional stuff I need to do

So, at the moment WIPs stalled due to commitments with Hand of Glory.

Hopefully this will settle down at some point. Actually it is quite good as having a lot of work done on the house in the next month, so tradesmen all over the place, which will make creatively writing hard going. But on the other hand it makes doing short articles and promotional stuff easy. I just imagine I am back at work ;)
 
I'm working on a murder-turned-paranormal investigation story. Also a short story for a new Inkling Press anthology.

I've also been doing the "Darganau: Autobiography of a Dragon" serial for my blog ( Cathbad's F&SF Short Story Blog ). I've probably committed myself too far, promising new posting three times a week (slowing my other work down), but it's bringing visitors to the blog, and hey, I'm enjoying writing it!

:)
 
I'm working on book 2 of my new series pending the publishing of book 1. Doing my own cover art for book 1 as I don't trust other artists to get the details right.

The series is a story that follows an alien protagonist from a large heavy gravity world as he is engaged in a power struggle against a variety of deceptive foes and betrayal.

The alien is aided oddly enough by human captives that he has taken as "pets" for his collection of primitive bipedal animals.

A human woman with some mental gifts and an alien halfbreed sent to keep tabs on the cell with the female humans play a strong part in aiding the protagonist.

Much of his intrigue and interest centers not around his advanced alien military technology keeping him well ahead of detractors, rather it is focused on the planet's apex predator.

The protagonist is the only member of his species to have a pet domesticated creature of this sort. Everyone on the planet wants to know the secret of taming these virtually unstoppable animals for use as a bio warfare opportunity.


I have four more books to the series already in mind. And the initial story was test reviewed with readers with strong approval. In fact it was the rather enthusiastic reception to the story that encouraged me to start to learn how to write screenplays.

Upon completing the second book I will initiate the screen play for the first book and start looking to promote it with some Hollywood insiders whom I am friends with.

I'm also working on a background for the series. I'm an artist and planning on doing a colourful illustration book with several of the prominent species of flora and fauna of my world.

I've been composing a written and spoken base language for the first of three major continents, and will have a few more done though less fully developed as added reference source material.

The idea is to benefit fan/readers as well as to give me full intellectual property rights to my creation for purposes of screen play accreditation and to protect my royalties rights should the movie be made and on the off chance that someone decides to rewrite a small section of the screenplay and then assume credit and entitlement.

That cannot happen as I am the author, creator, and even the illustrator/artist responsible for many of the cover sheets and the compendiums.

Aside from that I have several other books in the works (fiction and nonfiction) as well as an anthology of short stories.

And sometimes I eat, sleep, etc.

Cheers!
 
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So as not to disrupt my flow (it doesn't take much). I leave [notes] in my writing to remind me to return and complete whatever it was I didn't know at the time. For example: 'They raced across the concourse [describe] to the departure gate.' Today I noticed I was adding more and more [notes] and then it dawned on me. I've lost interest in my story.
 
I hate it when that happens. Maybe you need to invest more into your characters. I wrote a spy story once, I took on his exercise regime and training to get into his mindset. I also have a partner in crime who I send stuff too regularly who gives me feedback, that helps to keep me focused. It does go wrong sometimes, I was writing a very aggressive character once and ended up coming just short of attacking someone who was deliberately annoying me.
 
j.grey said:
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.
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This is exactly what I did in January and february of this year. Dropped my work hours so I could write and just plodded on. Finished 4 first drafts, I think over 350k. Worked 9-5 every single day (including day job). 5 days a week. 8k a day was a mimimum, maxing at 11k ish on one or two days I think.

But in the next 7 months, I have read through and almost edited book one, and plotted out a romance novel (finished scene byscene plan today). A grand total of maybe 20k words, and a weeks worth of full time editing? As Jo said, I think it balances out when you chew through drafts like soft cheese.
 
Can I be the first to recommend coffee? I wrote three over the break with varying degrees of success. I love motorcycles and travel but the book about travelling was an effort, it plodded wearily on and just took a force of pure will If not, then how will the readers? The process has to be enjoyable for both of you. You've got to figure out what's derailed you and put it right. Bring in a new character, kill someone who annoys you, whatever it takes to get you back having fun with what you're doing.
 
I'm doing a final cleanup of a 110 000 word novel, Immortelle. Premise: as the first manned mission to Mars is underway in 2029, 1036 Ganymed, largest of the Amor asteriods, is hit by a planetesimal and is knocked onto a collision course with Earth, which is rather a bad thing since Ganymed is 20 miles across and weighs 330 quadrillion tons. Whilst Earth scrambles to put together missiles to deflect Ganymed another small asteroid is belatedly discovered heading for Mars - and is slowing down. NASA's rather desperate plan B: if the missiles don't work the 5-man Mars mission crew must try to contact the alien craft for help. However one crewmember has killed two others and plans to kill a third...

And there's a big twist about the aliens. :rolleyes:
 
Finishing up another week, I'm sure I've achieved something, just can't quite put my finger on it. Chili and brussel sprouts tonight, my punishment for forgetting to buy the rice.
 
I am currently engaged in rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic aka editing. Although in fairness, what I just found was less a deckchair and more a landmine. Into the sea with that, now to put something that makes sense into its place.

I did however think of a new first for Completed Manuscript 2 -

"I held out my cup and the serving girl poured wine all over me."

Maybe I'll start referring to that one as Mary Rose.

VinceK said:
Finishing up another week, I'm sure I've achieved something, just can't quite put my finger on it. Chili and brussel sprouts tonight, my punishment for forgetting to buy the rice.
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That's a pretty heavy punishment for forgetting to buy rice!
 
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