What are you working on right now?

[StuartBurchell]

Just started another Arthurian short, got about four- or five Arthurian shorts on the go at the moment, this one on my least favourite knight, Sir Lancelot. I have another short story 'mapped' out (in my mind!), this one is inspired by the old tv series The Professionals and a mash up of maybe at least two episodes and a scene from the film The Ipcress File, ok, not a scene so much as an incident...First thriller short story I ever attempted...I better start writing again...

 

[Cathbad]

Trying to finish the next installment of Dominance. It's completely written in my head...

 

[CTRandall]

Comatose Gnome

That would be a great band name! I tell you, thaddeus6th, we're gonna make it rich in the metal scene. I'll set up a gig for us at Trillian's in Newcastle!

 

[janeoreilly]

Have abandoned copy edits for now (after realising that the pub has copy edited the wrong version of the bleeping book). So can now either continue working on book 3, write a dinosaur scifi short for the uncanny submission call, or just hide under the duvet with gin.

 

[StuartBurchell]

If it was me, I would hide under the duvet with a bottle of rum.

 

[monsterchic]

Am plotting my next story and working on my current two. Hoping to hit 30K on the big one this weekend, and 7K on the shorter one.

 

[night_wrtr]

write a dinosaur scifi short

Do it. Anything with dinosaurs will get my full support.

 

[Edward M. Grant]

Trying hard to finish my Transylvanian werewolves vs homeless people novel so I can publish it next month.

 

[Toby Frost]

I'm honestly not sure. It's supposed to be an SF/spy story, but it's turning into a strange mixture of buddy-cop adventure and romance, except that they're not cops and there can't be any romance. Anyway, I'm enjoying it.

 

[Penny]

Writing my first full length novel, a cyberpunk style action/detective story in a similar vein to dresden files but sci fi *spooky noises* also working on my post count so i can post some stuff up for critique - oh what do you know 31 >.> <.<

 

[crystal haven]

Busy writing my next novel. All the dialogue is painfully stilted at the moment. It will flow better on the next draft - I hope. This first draft is basically outlining as I write.

 

[Stable]

I wrote every day this week, and today I reached 10000 words on my WIP. Not a bad milestone! I need to get the pace up though, or I won't get this finished before I'm 45.

 

[millymollymo]

WIP is 1/5 complete in 2nd/3rd draft format.
+Two first drafts down for stories.

 

[thaddeus6th]

Proofing Plague. The unusually long time (for Sir Edric) between writing and the final check has meant I've stumbled across some lines I'd completely forgotten about. It's quite nice reading a comedy I've written and actually enjoying some of the jokes

 

[CTRandall]

I'm doing some heavy editing in a novel I thought was almost done. Getting really difficult to try reading it with fresh eyes and might have to set it aside for a couple of weeks.

 

[night_wrtr]

I'm doing some heavy editing in a novel I thought was almost done. Getting really difficult to try reading it with fresh eyes and might have to set it aside for a couple of weeks.

It is hard to do that sometimes, but well worth it. I did with a short story recently and I think it was the best thing I could have done. I was able to look at a few things from different angles and I think that next round of edits made it into a much better story than it had been.

 

[Lafayette]

It is hard to do that sometimes, but well worth it. I did with a short story recently and I think it was the best thing I could have done. I was able to look at a few things from different angles and I think that next round of edits made it into a much better story than it had been.

I second your statements. This is what I'm doing right now. It is tedious but worthwhile.

 

[monsterchic]

Just finished a short story and set it aside to edit in the morning. Also did 1K in my collab piece and another 1K in my big piece.

 

[Serendipity]

I've restarted what I call 'novel 3' (novel 1 is in the drawer as it's the beginner's novels full of beginner's errors and novel 2 is doing the agent rounds). I'm also writing short stories to play with ideas for novel 4 - my ideas and world-building are slow-cook items, hence the need to start early. And finally I need to choose and rewrite a story for an anthology... which is probably the most difficult item on the list! Choices, choices, choices...

 

[Cathbad]

Putting all else but the Dominance series aside, and starting work on the 4th Edition of Flight of the Elves. This time I'm getting it right - all the small errors gone, better flow from one chapter to the next. Have added (what I deem as) two important preludes, as well. I suspect it'll end up at around 120k words, 15k more than before (the two preludes have already added nearly 2k).

Now to see if I can find a proper cover I can afford at nearly a zero budget.