What are you working on right now?

I am working on writing a YA fantasy series based on the movie Mulan. I swapped some things and changed a bunch but basically its about a girl who is forced into the army and has to put down a civil war and stop a dark lord from destroying the world.
 
That was one of the CoD games, I think. Not my cup of tea.

Unlike XCOM 2. Which I can't get because it comes out so close to Rise of the Tomb Raider because daft videogames (unlike wise books) have a drought over summer and a flood in winter, and I don't have the time/money to get two books so close together.

To meander in the approximate direction of being on-topic: today's been one of those days where I have got stuff done but almost none of it is word count-ish. Blog, messing about with artwork stuff, a smidgen of writing, and so on.

Incidentally, I tend not to plug my Twitter stuff, but I've got a poll which ends inside a day and it'd be useful for me (and others) to get as many votes as possible: Morris Dancer on Twitter
 
DOOM (2016) was an unexpected pleasure for me. Massive fan of the original games, but didn't believe for one moment that I would enjoy the new game as much as I did.

Going back on topic: how do people feel that gaming affects their writing? I'm planning on investing some time into Skyrim, in order to help me flesh out my fantasy world a little more, for my next book.

I know that Jen Williams cites Dragon Age as an influence for her Copper Cat trilogy. Anyone else find that an interactive experience can help get their creative juices flowing?
 
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Scarfy, Vagrant Story (from about 2000) was a major influence when I was working [some years later] on the background for Bane of Souls and other stories in that world. That's why there's the mingling of English, French, German and Latin. They should remake that game, it's fantastic in almost every way but as one of the first properly 3D games its graphics have aged poorly.

And my next short story, Black Sails [in the next Woodbridge Press anthology Journeys] has Polish names because I like The Witcher 3.
 
Scarfy said:
DOOM (2016) was an unexpected pleasure for me. Massive fan of the original games, but didn't believe for one moment that I would enjoy the new game as much as I did.

Going back on topic: how do people feel that gaming affects their writing? I'm planning on investing some time into Skyrim, in order to help me flesh out my fantasy world a little more, for my next book.

I know that Jen Williams cites Dragon Age as an influence for her Copper Cat trilogy. Anyone else find that an interactive experience can help get their creative juices flowing?
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Not ScFi, but Val MCdermid (crime writer, 10million sales and rising) plays computer games to clear her mind, while she's writing. You have to follow the best...!

I've gone back to edit a book I've been working on for several years - when you leave a really long gap before revisiting, it's pleasurable to read your own words. (Whereas I find it a bit turgid to re-read words over and over, that I recently wrote.) And I'm finishing an edit for a friend.
 
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when you leave a really long gap before revisiting, it's pleasurable to read your own words.
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That's a relief. I read something this morning from last Christmas and really enjoyed it. I'd kind of assumed I'd become a narcissist and needed bringing down a peg or two:)

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plays computer games to clear her mind, while she's writing. You have to follow the best...!
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If anyone asks, that's why I'm doing it. Honest:whistle:
 
short story done. Needs rereading and editing. Also editing novel that was finished in the summer. I've got an anthology of my own to edit (well I say my own - it's actually an anthology of other authors but I'm editing it for Alternative Realities for a Q4 release - just waiting on the cover artist to come back to me).
 
Not much. Decorator + noisy dog = low productivity. Blargle.
 
I always get that feeling before starting anything bigger than a short, ratsy.
It's a good feeling to have, knowing that there is such an adventure to be had, not least because after youve conquered the mountains and bested the baddies, you can look back on it all and marvel at just how much you can accomplish if you put your mind to it :)
 
Having concluded the serial story on my blog, I've been able to finish my submission for the next Inkling Press Anthology, and I'm working on a Halloween story, which I'll hopefully finish before Halloween!

Now off to write that 300-worder...
 
I've been trying to combat my rigid Aspergerness when it comes to ideas and stuff. Right now, I cannot write a novel about different people, unless I've finished the project I'm on. So, I have plenty of ideas, but I cannot use them unless I finish what I'm doing now. And what I am doing now is what I've been working on for years. Now decided to combat this I need to change the characters last names and certain aspects of the background, but even this is hard as I'm used to it how it used to be.
Anthorn Xebiar/Trell. Nish Trell/Xebiar. Nikita and Sarana Sarakus/Knott. Marapeth Knott/Sarakus. Yeah......So that's me.
 
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