What are you working on right now?

Just about there with final manuscript edits for the trilogy, so it's on to the joys (and I use that word loosely:)) of interior formatting prior to providing the cover designer with dimensions and page counts for the paperbacks so he can do his thing.

It's been a long, gruelling slog but this part of the journey's nearly over. I'm looking forward to actually writing again next month (although I haven't written anything since January so there's a good chance I've forgotten how to write:eek:). Entirely by coincidence, I should be free of this stage just in time for the local beer festival. 'Tis thirsty work:D
 
SG just hit 101,500 words as I write this - am in a lesson as a supply teacher so I don't have to do much more than babysit (I gave the kids the What-Phyrebrat-Expects-From-You speech at the start and they're all angels since ;) ).

Consequently I have my iPad and Scrivener and am hammering through my story whilst the kids write something about the Kalahari.

And mum said men couldn't multitask.... :D

pH
 
Over half-way through The Event edits, which I'm dragging my feet with since I don't have a deadline. I've done some short story outlining this week, working on new Explorations blurb, and outlining The Event sequel a little more (am 7K into it) I'm finding outlining suits me.
 
I like outlining too. Helps me with continuity and helps keep everything together (like scaffolding for the first draft).

Working on some final Traitor's Prize changes (ahead of proofreading) as well as the last bits of pre-release stuff for Wandering Phoenix and Roaming Tiger. The latter should be out this month, the former hopefully June/July.
 
Did a long outlining session yesterday and another long one this morning. I am now outlined through chapter 31, which has taken me all the way until the ending. Hoping that I can get the last few chapters done tonight and do a clean up of everything to make sure its nice and tidy. Then, I actually get to write! Been a long time getting to this point, so I am excited to see it starting to come to life.
 
I'm kinda doing three things. I say kinda because I haven't put much gusto in any of them. What I'm kind doing is editing my first draft of my novel, creating a new folder (I have found that I was too disorganized with my last book) with sub folders of various topics or subjects i.e. technology, languages, places, characters, and chapters etc for my new novel.

My new novel I mainly started because I was aimlessly doing nothing. I written I think what is a whole page or more (it's hard to tell because I'm using the font DS_Mysticora at size 26). I am employing this font to get me in the mood. I'm tired of Times New Roman and wish that the writing industry and the technology would start accepting something else.

Right now I have very little idea of where I'm going with it. However I thought it was better to do something than nothing at all. Hoping doing it this way something will come to me.

 
Onto proofreading Traitor's Prize. Glad I've got a stack of time to do it, this is easily my least favourite part of writing.
 
Thursday is my busy day (in terms of writing) as I have a few hours in a coffee shop in between school jobs.

I had reached 110,000k earlier this week but that is down to 106k now after chopping off a misdirection.

Today I had great time watching re-enactments of Shire and Hundred Courts online and reading an academic paper about the process in the late C14.

I also used/made up the words 'feets' and 'teazed' because they just sounded...so.

Also Henry is now Henry of Crewacre instead of Wimbowen. I'm not sure where it came from and it's not a real place (actually, I've not Googled it), but it just dropped into my brain when he was being introduced to the court.

There's a lot of subterfuge and intrigue in this section of my WIP and it was tying me in knots - hence the slicing of 4k - but today it just fell into place.

pH
 
I'm diving in to the fifth book in my Inheritance series. The outline wasn't coming on this one, so I'm just going for it.

This happens sometimes. Some books I can outline, some I half-outline then pants the rest. This one I've only managed four chapters of outline for, so it's time to just roll up the sleeves and get on with it.
 
Proofreading.

*sighs*

Still, at least it's not proofreading comedy, which entails almost never even smiling (because you've read all the jokes a dozen times) and having no idea whether your memory of mirth is accurate or not.
 
Gahhh, hopefully this weekend finishing book 3 of my Dragon's Grail epic fantasy series. They are short books (really, novellas, but shhhh). It's at 22k words so if I can crank out 10k or so it'll be in the can. I'm then working on rewriting an old short story under my romance pen name to fashion it into a novel, so that will take some time before I get cracking on book 4 of Dragon's Grail. Also need to edit a novella by a friend who asked for help.

Busy weekend, ahoy! ...need more coffee...

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I started a new novel (or short story, possibly) today. I have a synopsis of it, some random notes and a vague idea of an ending. Oh, and the first 1500 words or so, taken from an other story and rewritten. It's exciting to start something new. :)

I am not a consistent writer, I will only write when inspired to, so I don't expect to keep up the pace. It takes place in the same universe as my previous (first) novel, but with a close 3rd POV, not 1st any more. Thanks to Chron, I now know what that means.... I hope. They seem closely related, from a writer's perspective.

I will probably leave my first novel alone for a while. It's on its second, third or fourth draft now, all at once because I don't go through it linearly.
 
I am playing in the snow and building all sorts of infrastructure!

In other words I am using 'The Snowflake method' software to lay out multiple characters and books all at once. My poor laptop is running almost incandescent white trying to cope with the load.

At the same time I have a gigantic spreadsheet open on my desktop in which I am plotting the story and character arcs of all my WiP books and making sure that all the cross links and interactions are going to work plausibly.

Lastly, I am revising and re-voicing some existing prose on my phablet whilst pausing for tea and a biscuit.
 
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