What are you working on right now?

I did 607 words in Red Creek by 6AM today, and will be passing 40k in the book tonight. It's heating up!
 
Post apoc has 47,4xx words in it. Been going well. Recently sent a few sections to a friend for some feedback and they enjoyed it. I'm not going to really do that here unless I get a full draft as that can be a vicious cycle!

Found a romance I was working on. It's literally a romance. Nothing dark, nothing insane, just a romance which touches on the issues of racism in one country of the steampunk lore I am working in. It's a bit cliche.. well cliche by victorian french standards! Le gasp!:eek:

That has 33k words in it and it I may use it to be a balancing beam for the post apoc story. The romance's Mc is overly optimistic and so bubbly happy. I wish I had her outlook on life.o_O

But it is nice confirming that dreaded fear i had where I was like "Umm am I actually writing different MC's or is just the same person with a different wig?":cautious:
 
Threw the beginning of my story into the critique thread. Really nervous about actually.

I've had terrible results with critiques. No they weren't critiques they were beat down. A critique is for improvement not disembowelment.

Still worried though. Worked a bit on my romance yesterday needed a more relaxed story to pound away on.
 
I'm into the editing rounds for Sand Rangers, the third book in the first trilogy of my The Cinder Chronicles YA fantasy series. Sitting at 84000 words.
 
Managed about 350 words today and now L&C is sitting at just over 72k. This is taking me forever.
 
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Getting back into serious work flow after many weeks of IRL disruptions. I'm not doing word counts because I can never make it make sense for me. I write, I rewrite, I make copious outlining notes that shade over into writing (e.g., writing dialog snippets), and I write articles for the Altearth website. Which of these do I count? And if I rewrite the three thousand words of a chapter, how do I count that?

So I have given up on word counts. Instead, I think about parts of the work. The part I'm working on now is the beginning. Wretched thing, thrice cursed. I had a good opening. A really good opening. My crit group thought it was very strong; they just had a couple of questions. I realized I was starting in the wrong place, so I backed up and wrote a good chapter prior.

Still not right. Wrong POV, for one thing. For another, I was failing to introduce a couple of elements of conflict that needed to be there and not later. Or at least to foreshadow them.

IOW, I'm working on the opening, by which I mean the first three or four chapters that get me up to the Inciting Incident (which was my original Chapter One).

When people ask how I write, my current reply is: sideways.
 
I managed over 900 words today and L&C hit 73k. I can smell the end. It smells like death.

Also got an email from the editor saying I should have edits back at the weekend, which means I'll be working on that. Also been pondering NaNo.

Also been vaguely pondering giving up writing, because I don't really know what I'm doing or why.
 
Mouse said:
Also been vaguely pondering giving up writing, because I don't really know what I'm doing or why.
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Not authorised to give out Chrons slaps, but I can administer boots to posterior.
Nobody knows what they're doing. They just make it up as they go along. For the record, you're doing fine, Mouse. You produce some ruddy good novels, and short stories. Just write for yourself - you'll carry the readers along with you. If you ever want to take a break, though, that is also fine. You cannot write reams and reams every day. Finally, if you ever need to, just reach out. There's plenty of us who are here for you.*

*Actually, that last bit is a PSA: people, do not bottle stuff up -- talk; here, or to someone somewhere.


EDIT: amended punctuation. D'oh!
 
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I hope you haven't been looking at reviews @Mouse and that's why you're feeling to give up. You have a great voice; I keep telling you that and - as several historians have noted - I know everything. So stop even considering it.

Having said that, I have been sat here for an hour now wondering whether to write on my wip or the challenge entries.

pH
 
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