What are you working on right now?

Trying to:

1) write a raid by federal agents on a fish market which is exploiting migrant workers, in the second book;
2) write the aftermath of a fire in a magazine's offices, in the second book; and
3) find representation for the first gods-damned book.

I can hardly wait until I get to the bit in which a gigantic lizard eats an enormous blow-hard, live on television.
 
ZlodeyVolk said:
Trying to:

1) write a raid by federal agents on a fish market which is exploiting migrant workers, in the second book;
2) write the aftermath of a fire in a magazine's offices, in the second book; and
3) find representation for the first gods-damned book.

I can hardly wait until I get to the bit in which a gigantic lizard eats an enormous blow-hard, live on television.
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One down, several to go …
 
I have two projects at the moment. Primarily, I am working on a massive hard-ish, character driven SF work (I have FTL travel, but I worked out the physics, engineering, and so forth for every other piece of tech or structure) which is anticipated to span several large core novels, a range of side novels, and a handful of short story and novella anthologies. Additionally, I am working on building the universe for a high fantasy work based on a submission I made here for the 100 Word Anonymous Challenge. It focuses on the revenge actions of a young woman against a god, her subsequent curse (either 1000 year or generational; I haven't decided which yet), and eventual redemption from God-Slayer to God-Bearer.
 
I'm editing (and seemingly doubling the length of) a short story about a college teen who gets a surprise when he's carving a heart into an oak tree's trunk. College in the UK is high-school, to any Americans reading, so I'll probably have to go with high-school to avoid confusion.

I also have two other stories (a short and a microfiction) that need a couple of tweaks. I seem to get stuck on one or two things (for the microfiction I'm stuck on a single word/sentence).

After that I need to stop writing new stories and get the 20+ others ready for submission! I find it much easier to write new stories so often end up taking the easy way out, and sometimes it's irresistible when the idea's in my head.
 
Doing the formatting, front matter, and back matter on A Child of Great Promise, and resisting the temptation to spend time on "one last" edit.
 
Funny kind of day, today … I'm still stuck on the fire's aftermath (largely because I haven't come up with any dialogue, yet; I don't know how your process works, but mine usually starts with dialogue about a situation), so I've been procrastinating by sorting my notes on the Grey Bairns' language.

The fictional language is an attempt to prevent questions such as 'If the Grey Bairns are from a tangential universe, how come they're speaking English?' it's grounded in the ravings of Richard Shaver, but informed by George Orwell's essay 'The Principles of Newspeak'. Fun, but nonetheless a hard slog.
 
Welp, I've been a busy dragon since I last updated. I hit 170K the other day. And now have more followers and all that jazz.

Happy MC, though they're all about to get real pissy at the story I'm releasing tonight.
 
Still writing my same old novel. :v But I am about done with the 2nd draft. Progress! Very good. *pat self on back* Also I haven't been here in, like, forever. Hi! I also have artwork of the creatures my story is based on, and artists lines up who could do the cover art if need be. It wouldn't be top notch like the ultra famous fantasy novelists can get, but it would be pretty damn close. Yay!
 
Redrafting Crown of Blood. Think it'll end up being significantly shorter than previous trilogy entries (maye 60-65k against 80-90k or so) but I think that's better than padding it.
 
Working on nothing! Heading to Scotland for a vacation with wife, son, daughter-in-law, and grandson. I'm not taking a computer, so communication will be minimum.

Once I return, though, in late June, I'll be starting Into the Second World, my Altearth reworking of Verne's A Journey to the Center of the Earth. Mine will have better monsters.
 
I went over the 72,000 word mark on my thriller at the weekend, so only another 4 or 5k to go, so I'm hoping to have a completed draft by the weekend. I have a lot of research and editing to do, but I'm hoping the novel is ready to submit by the end of July.
 
1) An advanced draft of a science fiction novel themed on fiction and superstition, set in a very distant future that resembles the Dickensian past and narrated in a style that befits that.

2) Being a publicist for my first self-pub book, due on July 1st.

3) The very, very beginnings of an abduction story based on the Sharazad archetype. A noir that may or may not contain speculative elements (almost certainly will, since I am writing it).
 
Cathbad said:
Determined to buckle down and work on my WIP yesterday, I wrote an amazing... 56 words.

:cry:
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Joshua Jones said:
I got a sentence done this morning!
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I haaaate days like that. I absolutely get so sulky that it makes me go off and read or play a game; anything but write. It's so disheartening. Then there're those days when you catch the wave and it's 2k in an hour.

Guillermo Stitch said:
3) The very, very beginnings of an abduction story based on the Sharazad archetype. A noir that may or may not contain speculative elements (almost certainly will, since I am writing it).
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Ooh...nice. Sounds v interesting. Good luck for your July 1st marketing.

While I'm here.

The Present day portion of my WIP is now 43,000 words which brings the total so far for this first draft (of version 4 - o_O ) to just over 150k.

Really trying to keep to my December deadline of Draft 1.4

Also, after seeing this yesterday, I'm trying my best not to go off and write a short about it:

GT.jpeg
 
Toying with potential plots for a future Sir Edric novel. Surprisingly tricky. Got a couple that might work.
 
Interlude In Blue - a Sargent Cooper story
 
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