What are you working on right now?

Finally getting to work on two stories.

The Skylanders of Draviis is a sequel to my finished work, The Hammer of God, which is currently looking for a publisher. Only 9k words into it, but I can devote more attention to it.

The Case of the Stone Men is a police procedural approach. May be shortened to just The Stone Men. Three men are turned into stone in a B&B hotel, how do the police investigate this? I recently read Gorgon by Greig Beck and was surprised and disappointed that the hero, Alex Hunter, and neither of the two Turks on the spot doesn't think of the mythical gorgons, even if to disregard it out of hand. In The Stone Men, the police team does, briefly, discuss the gorgons, but can't accept an ancient Greek myth is walking the streets of London. I am not saying if they were right to dismiss a gorgon or not, but they do see the link to it and talk about it and in chapter two as well. Don't know whether it is a novella or full book length, but I got it more or less plotted in my head.

The disruption to my work was finding a short horror story I had written and writing it up on computer. It was supposedly one of two of my works to be published by a dodgy publisher (since gone the plug hole), supposedly, as I have no proof either was truly published. the disappointment of that publisher stopped me writing for some years. I'm kinda glad, in a way, that neither was published, as both chapbooks were horribly edited and full of spelling and punctuation errors (publisher's fault, not mine!).

Now all I need is time to write the damned stories!
 
I'm working on my new thing - coming up to the 10 k mark, which isn't bad. But I'm frustrated. I set it in a place I visited this summer - Glenveagh Castle, in Co Donegal - and now I need to know all sorts of things about it. Like does it close in really awful weather. And how the steps around a particular area are laid out. I really need to go back for another visit, but things are too tight moneywise to do so. :( For now, I'm leaving lots of notes for myself to come back to.
 
1800 words into the rewrite of the 1170s strand of SG. I'm not sure if 'rewrite' is the most appropriate word as this particular thread has an entirely different narrative, using very little from the original. I binned nearly 30k and felt nothing but relief; you know when you've been labouring under false pretenses, too blind or foolish to admit what you're writing has drifted so far from what you wanted, that when you do finally concede, it's liberating.

I got the fantastical rubbish out the way and am now back on the gothic-y horror feel I wanted: Instead of my main POV going to the site and surveying the land for the building of a priory, the priory is already built and he's been sent to investigate the local barrows. On arriving, he finds the priory deserted.

If I wasn't so sore from work, I'd be doing a happy dance.

pH
 
I am going to start cleaning house with regards to all the half started, and abandoned WIPs that litter my hard drive. I need to sort out what is worth spending the effort on and completing. I have put this off for a long time. Certain stories I am reluctant to put behind me, but I know I must. Now Hand of Glory and Oracle are published I need to find out where I am going with my writing.
The last couple of years real life in many respects has taken over large chunks of my time, but now I feel I can go back to the beginning with my writing. Write what comes into my head and see where it goes.
I have proved to myself I can write a damn good story and get it out there, now I need to see where I want to go from here.
 
On the third book of the trilogy that starts with Kingdom Asunder.

Can't really go into detail (nearly at the start of the crescendo) but it's a nice little calm before the Godzilla starts.

Still need to finish redrafting Traitor's Prize (second book) and commence rejiggification of the first two chapters of Sir Edric and the Plague. Want to write some short stories for anthologies and Kraxon next year too. Did hardly any in 2016.
 
Several works in various stages of progress.

There's Bastian Baird and The Brigand's Banjo: on permanent hold for now, as I figure out how to fix it.

Two new pieces that are reworks of older ideas; one I'm liking more than the other. One is about secret keepers that keep the world of magic from us regular folk. The other (the one I'm digging more) is a reworking of a sci-fi comedy piece I've started several times but which I think has finally found its feet.

And edits of two finished stories that really need to be done. Both are novellas. One is a YA piece called The World Wardens Saga that is about a teen that discovers he's a World Warden tasked with protecting the tethers that hold our world to a world separated from our world long ago. The other is a steampunk-ish time travel adventure set in an alternate reality, called Alter/Nation.

So, plenty of stuff on the go. Also need to work on prep work for a software/web dev course I'm enrolling in come Feb. Developing ideas for websites and platforms that may just become part of your daily routine.

What was the question again? :confused:o_O:ROFLMAO:
 
Primordial main draft is finished and is with betas now. It is a 'novellette' aparently, though I only just heard the term.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Vaz
Jo Zebedee said:
I'm working on my new thing - coming up to the 10 k mark, which isn't bad. But I'm frustrated. I set it in a place I visited this summer - Glenveagh Castle, in Co Donegal - and now I need to know all sorts of things about it. Like does it close in really awful weather. And how the steps around a particular area are laid out. I really need to go back for another visit, but things are too tight moneywise to do so. :( For now, I'm leaving lots of notes for myself to come back to.
Click to expand...
Maybe this will help:
glenveagh castle
 
I've just started a fantasy where the main protagonist is a female elf and her trusted snow leopard. Currently she exploring an ancient forest long forgotten as elven spectre wander almost aimlessly.
 
Hi,

Currently I'm thinking about taking a nice long nap! Just finished the final edits and pubbed The Wolves of War on kindle two days ago, and today after another two day epic battle with CreateSpace, finished the paperback version.

Now I'm wondering - is it too late to check into an asylum for a little bit of mental flossing? Or have all the places been filled since a certain person was elected pres?

Cheers, Greg.
 
Right now I'm working on a short work (or maybe it'll have chapters, I don't know I only just started it a few days ago) that will either be called "The Herald of Misfortune" or "The Herald of Misunderstanding" (the title will be in Portuguese since that's what the main character speaks, but my translator/girlfriend hasn't answered me yet on how to actually write those titles).

I'm also working on an ongoing long work that's over 58000 words, but Microsoft word might have eaten close to 1000 words. (When I put the wordcount into pacemaker.press back when I was on my tablet about a week ago it was 58978 words according to Microsoft Word for Android, but when I went to update that count after adding about 200 words today, Word 2016 on my new laptop says I'm only at 58130 words, and I'm not sure where the words went. I'll have to take a look after I sleep to see if I accidentally deleted part of a chapter or something.)

Other than that I'm also working on not disappearing from writing sites for months (or years) at a time.
 
I've just realised that my Chinese-American heroine will be staying at an English country house on November 5th, 1895 - she's going to find Guy Fawkes Night really wierd!
 
After a few (short) serious fantasy chapters, now working on the transmogrification of the start of Sir Edric and the Plague.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Thread starter Similar threads Forum Replies Date
D Reworking my second characters introduction Critiques 10
BcRedneck Another piece of the book I've been working on Critiques 6
U I have two stories and two MC's I'm working on, but they are too similar. I need advice on how to make them different Writing Discussion 7
Dragonlady 15th century working class wedding dress History 36
CTRandall Working on style--543 words of near-future scifi Critiques 13

Similar threads


Back
Top