What are you working on right now?

Why is it my best ideas wake me up at four in the morning? Good job I have a bedside notebook :D

I'll be writing down the first scene of my Sekrit Story later.

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For the last 6 months I've been working on pre-publication stuff (revisions, proof-readingm liasising with cover designer, etc) for my debut release, a Fantasy trilogy with the first book, Angel's Truth, coming out at the end of August and volumes 2 and 3 coming out a few weeks later (ARCs are available for anyone interested). It's been...well, absolutely nuts, especially after losing weeks while I was ill, but it's also been an invaluable learning experience. For a very long time it looked as though I wasn't going to make my deadline, but...

Angel's Truth is just about ready to go: I've gone through the final proofs, have the kindle version done and formatted, and once I click a few buttons next month I'll be on my way (well, at least with the first book - still waiting for proof copies of books 2 and 3) into the world of indie publishing. It is, finally, starting to feel a little bit real now. And - best of all - I can have a break for a couple of days and this happily coincides with Chrons North up in Huddersfield tomorrow (still room for more if anyone's in the neigbourhood!) so I'm really looking forward to catching up with everyone. Oh, and did I mention it's in a brewery?:D

pambaddeley said:
Finally finished sending the MS back and forth to my editor and now about to embark on the wonderful world of formatting.
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How's it going, Pam? I remember you posted about how Scrivener for Windows doesn't allow first-line formatting different to the rest of the scene and Windows users need to use Calibre/Sigil to fix first line indents. Of course, by the time I got to it myself I'd forgotten your advice but I ended up using Calibre. I did email the Scrivener folks about it, and they reckon there should be a new Windows version coming out later this year (hopefully with this issue fixed and some parity with the Mac version).
 
Cheers for finding that out Gonk. In the meantime I developed my own process, using a HTML editor to clean up a lot of Word junk and create a proper CSS file, then Calibre to eliminate any rubbish styles Word insisted on creating that were not obvious in the HTML - identifying them in Calibre and going back to Word to eliminate any oddities that had crept in after applying the Smashwords style recommendations - and then taking the cleaned up HTML file into Sigil for various production aspects such as creating TOCs and adding metadata, plus splitting the file into the correct subfiles to aid handling on e-readers. I am partway through doing that for the finalised book having done it four times previously for read-through on my old Kindle keyboard which does a robotic text-to-speech. Congratulations on your own impending publication.
 
Congrats Gonk, look forward to your upcoming books.

The downside to the Scrivener update is that the windows one will be out later than the Mac one, or so I've read. And its only a beta at first and you have to pay for it. I'm sorry, but the Windows version has been crap compared to Mac for ages, I'm definitely notbpaying for the update. It should be free.

Think I'll be buying a dreaded smapple product first.
 
Dennis E. Taylor said:
Writing a short story for Explorations: Colonization (or is it Colony?)
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Just so happens I am writing mine for Colony right now. and it is Explorations:Colony. Can't wait to see it.

Also plotting a new book for a super secret project. This is going to be awesome!
 
I'm being rather smartypants and writing two (Two! Count them, I know you won't...) things at the moment. I'm 900 words into my SS assignment - title withheld for obvious reasons. And SG has now crept back up to 104k (it had been 110k at one point months ago and I threw 30k out, but...)

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Just about to hit 220 pages for my YA novel. Goal is to finish this year with my town critique group that's been great giving feedback along the way, make some changes to early chapters that I've been meaning to get to (I have a strict rule of only revising the current chapter I'm working on--I don't go back to previous chapters in order to avoid getting stuck!), and then submit the draft to the Highlights Foundation's "Whole Novel Workshop" next summer in PA. I've heard good things about the program.
 
Harpo said:
I'm spending a month expanding all the ridiculous peripheral bits of my epic space opera, to see if they might actually become a book of their own. Anything ridiculous is allowed, anything ordinary is not. So far I've discovered how to create tachyons, and am well on the way to uploading the Andromeda galaxy into an extremely large robotic body. More to follow.
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I need a break, or a publisher of nonsense
 
Mr. Calum, not sure it's an accurate title.

I haven't even begun to procrastinate.
 
First draft of my novel is done! It is bare bones, but it is done! Bring on the editing monster! :cool:

Now I have to decide if I want to jump straight into draft two and editing, or if I should set it aside and do a final draft on my writers of the future short story...

Decisions, decisions.
 
Congratulations, @night_wrtr!(y)
I'd suggest leaving the novel for at least a few weeks before starting any kind of editing. If you come back to it with fresh eyes after a break, it's easier to see what needs doing and come back to it with a critical eye.
 
I'm between books. I just finished a zombie novel that I did for fun. Now I'm promoting that - in my mind hanging around on forums counts - and mentally plotting the next installment (book 4) of my sci-fi series. I've already written a couple of thousand words of nice scenes and action I want to use, if possible; I just have to come up with a story to slot them into.
 
Hi to all.
I have been writing stories for as long as I can remember, unfortunately, they have all been in locked up in my head.

A few years ago I was talking to a friend about not sleeping well and told her I made up stories to get to sleep, sans sheep. She asked what kind of stories and I said Science Fiction mostly. She asked if it was a new story every night and I realised it was the same story, different part, each night.

I would like people to see what I have written, but not sure where to put it on this site. Help required.

GNDN
 
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