What are you working on right now?

My new book isn't coming along as quickly as I'd like. I'm about halfway in, it's coming together and it's working. I was worried it was going to just be silly as it's based on an 80s TV show about an armoured motorcycle. My long-time collaborator assured me it's OK so far. I'm a teacher, school kicks off again this week, maybe as they're so disorganised it's literally painful to work there.
 
80s tv show about an armoured motorcycle? The only show I can think off like that is Street Hawk (think I got the name right), a challenger to Knight Rider.
 
Working on a novel about a cursed man, travelling the world, seeking a way to cure his affliction. I've got the entire book outlined, so just writing now. Popping about 1,000 words into it per day, up to 42,000 now. Some days are good, but this morning I struggled for an hour to get just 800 words down. Well, just 200 to do after work. If I start at 9pm, I should be done with them by 11pm ;)
 
Scarfy said:
Working on a novel about a cursed man, travelling the world, seeking a way to cure his affliction. I've got the entire book outlined, so just writing now. Popping about 1,000 words into it per day, up to 42,000 now. Some days are good, but this morning I struggled for an hour to get just 800 words down. Well, just 200 to do after work. If I start at 9pm, I should be done with them by 11pm ;)
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Dayang! If I could do 800 words an hour... whew! I'm jealous! Good Luck with the novel! :)
 
StuartBurchell said:
80s tv show about an armoured motorcycle? The only show I can think off like that is Street Hawk (think I got the name right), a challenger to Knight Rider.
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That's the one! I haven't got a proper title but my working title is SLUMP, (Street Level Utility Motorcycle Platform). It makes sense in the story. I am over halfway now, managed to get into it and managed three whole chapters, around 8000 words so a good day. Some of them are pretty dark too which is good, I enjoy writing dark, dark and silly. I have a half day tomorrow so I'm aiming for at least 1 more chapter, maybe 2. First draft will be finished by next weekend.
 
I'm halfway through my first run at adapting Inish Carraig. It's all pretty easy and mostly deleting, although I need to tidy up the scene intros etc.

It has also convinced me never, ever, to tackle something like this for Abendau. It would turn into a 4 hour film.... :D
 
Cathbad said:
Dayang! If I could do 800 words an hour... whew! I'm jealous! Good Luck with the novel! :)
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Thanks! 800 words in an hour isn't too bad, it's about 13 words a minute. The trouble I have is that I often write a sentence, delete it, try and write it again, fail, and delete it again. I then stare at the screen for a few minutes, wondering what I was trying to convey in the first place!
 
Okay, I have finished a final read/edit/whatever. Had to do a few minor changes and The Hammer of God is finally completed at 67,569 words long.

Or have I? Do I add a title page at front? One that basically says The Hammer of God by Stuart Burchell and nothing else.

And I suppose I better make every chapter start on a new page...

I do have to add an appendix, basically just a foreign rank list and their English equivalent, since it is a real world organisation, ie, orlogkaptein = commander. But do I add the appendix to the story or will the publisher (if I can find one) want the appendix separately?

I really do not want to self publish...

And which publishers are more likely to publish pulp science fiction? It is very unlikely to reach any top ten reads, let alone any mentions in any best new reads in science fiction or whatever.

Is every book published reviewed?

May consider offering it to Amazon, one of my favourite series is published by them. (The Jon Hunt series of 'modern day' Royal Navy set in eighties and nineties, so far, by Larry Jeram-Croft.
 
I hit the 50k words mark. I wasn't sure about how to pace the ending as there was two lots of things to reveal to the audience. It all came to me in a dream which probably means I'm working too hard. I think I've got a title now, 'Hawk-Eye' which to my view, seems to fit well. I should have it finished by the end of this week. Hopefully, time will be on my side.
 
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Just finished editing/rewriting another 5 chapter chunk. Ideally need to pick up the pace here. But next I think comes a bit of CV tampering, a second sample review for applying to Metal Hammer and a couple of blog posts. I'd like to write something new too (other than microfiction that is) but suffering from decision paralysis.
 
One of my leading ladies is standing on plastic sheeting facing a man in disposable overalls and holding a silenced pistol. Can't decide whether or not this can wait until the morning.
 
Hawk-Eye now has a title, and that's obviously it. Just over 60k words now, hitting the big action finale which also has to built to a climax before the big ending. I'm enjoying this book, it's turning into a full on 80s throwback pile of silliness with a slightly post-modern twist. People have had their fingers cut off with garden tools, brains have been graphically blown out and now a ridiculously over-powered motorcycle is causing chaos, ridden by a man with technologically induced form of brain cancer who thinks he has super-powers. I mean, what's not to like?
 
Just started my first horror sci-fi today. A short, prob 1500 words or so.

I HATE horror, never wrote it before. So, well, that's something.

I think it's based an an old, old, old comic story. Probably late 1950s, a stack of which were delivered to my door when some old neighbour died. Lotta crazy stuff in those crazy (American) comics. Of course, my mother threw them out a year or so later. Probably could be a millionaire now....
 
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