What are you working on right now?

Gawian said:
At the moment. Nothing.
I'm finding it really difficult to find the drive to start writing.

I have so many ideas, for so many different stories, but as soon as I open a document... nothing.
I try just writing anything to get started, but it doesn't last and within 30 minutes I'm closing the document in frustration.
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I'm in a similar position. Six short stories ideas--two with outlines--and two novel ideas, but I can't get anything rolling. Especially odd since I knocked out two short stories in a week not long ago. It might have something to do with the weather: all cold and gray and depressing. Combined with all sorts of other stuff to worry about, it's hard to motivate myself to sit down and craft something up to my standards.
 
Well, my actual where-I-live reality hasn't changed much since I moved here. One mast went up, and that a good thing because it means no houses will ever be built there to block my view of the highest hill in the Outer Hebrides.
About a mile away in that same sort of direction there are two wind turbines that went up a couple of years ago, I visited one when it was in kit form lying around on the back of flatbeds.
My house and those of my neighbours was built in the early 80s, I've been told by a neighbour who's lived in her house since the late 70s.
My view is mostly peat bogs and heather, which hasn't changed in quite a while.
About a mile away in that direction is the Atlantic Ocean, and that's actually younger than the Lewissian Gneiss beach it washes upon.

Yeah, my reality's quite nice really.
 
I wouldn't throw that reality around then sounds to good. Heather might not appreciate it either.

mine is similar!
Well its not in the outa hebridis! so that's different.
I haven't got a view out of all my windows but thats not the reason i've gone mad, oh no.
I have a cupboard that houses plastic containers with lids that don't fit. They're my wife's.
I Have recently been on a walk over the fields behind my house where the Queen Mother used to live ( she's not with us any more) and my ears got so cold I bought a hat.
My dog has just caught Kennel cough and he sleeps in the house. Just goes to show doesn't it.

And this one second, just double check that tho!
 
Harpo said:
Well, my actual where-I-live reality hasn't changed much since I moved here. One mast went up, and that a good thing because it means no houses will ever be built there to block my view of the highest hill in the Outer Hebrides.
About a mile away in that same sort of direction there are two wind turbines that went up a couple of years ago, I visited one when it was in kit form lying around on the back of flatbeds.
My house and those of my neighbours was built in the early 80s, I've been told by a neighbour who's lived in her house since the late 70s.
My view is mostly peat bogs and heather, which hasn't changed in quite a while.
About a mile away in that direction is the Atlantic Ocean, and that's actually younger than the Lewissian Gneiss beach it washes upon.

Yeah, my reality's quite nice really.
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If you fancy a journey back in time and a possible time loop scenario then read this one first
 
Haven't done any writing in awhile, but I've been trying to read through some of my massive backlog. They say the best way to be a good writer is to be a voracious reader, so here I am. Hoping the groove is just hiding there, under the surface. I've got a few loose ideas I'm hoping will coalesce as I go.
 
Ok still nothing, but I did open a blank document with the intention of working on something. Instead I spent the afternoon telling my dog he's the most handsome of all the doggies, and buying a fire pit.
 
Third most handsome, I'm sure you meant. My two doggies forgive you. :)
 
Been peddling along on my main WIP, but today not a single word, instead added to two of my Arthurian shorts, covering two of the lesser knights, Sir Agloval and Sir Feirefiz. Can't properly focus on them either. I'm a snooker fan and Snooker Shoot Out is on...
 
Work on the WIP has picked up thanks to encouragement from @HareBrain @Dan Jones @The Big Peat and @Venusian Broon

I had a bit of crisis over it early this week - having written only about 5k in the past 2-3 months (and all of that was on 28th December on a plane flight) but I've banged out 3.5+K the past three days and might even finish the 1340s strand of the storyline this weekend!

Bad news is, it's currently at (an unedited) 138k and I'm only halfway through.

pH
 
I'm back in the saddle again, a little over halfway on the first full rewrite for A Child of Great Promise. I have a few more difficult chapters, then the story hurtles toward the finish line. Those chapters are but sketched out, but I'll be done with developing the characters and can show them rising to the principal challenge.

I really like my protagonists. A girl who thinks she is half-elf, half-human but discovers she is neither. Talysse has magical powers, chief among which is the ability to fly. But, how much of a warrior can she really be?

Her compagnon is Detta, a gnome. I love the gnomes of Altearth. They are modest, meek, terrifically clever with making small things, and Detta dearly loves Talysse.

These two are joined by a Catalan troubador, a young man with a beautiful voice and a deep desire to tell epic tales about ordinary people. The fourth member is Jehan, an elf chevalier who was on the skids until he met up with Talysse and made her quest his own.

The antagonists are two rival wizards--one who created Talysse, the other who would use her.

I've no immediate plans for a series, but these four could easily go on to have other adventures.
 
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