What are you writing now?

[serria]

Share with us whatever it is you are working on now! Original fiction? Fanfiction? Poetry? Articles? Script? Tell me about it!

I have a ton of short stories that I'd love to finish, iron out and send somewhere to try to get published, as well as (in the much more distant future) a few novels. I consider myself pretty rooted in the fantasy genre (with some sci-fi as well), which is what my novels would be easily classified as... but weirdly, my short stories are pretty much non-genre or simply human drama. I have one developing fantasy novel in particular that's really shaping itself, but the more I work on it, the further away from finishing it I seem.

I also write articles for a local newspaper, but that's basically limited to community events or opinion pieces.

How about you guys?

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[agilebrit]

Currently I'm on a short-story-writing jag; I have first drafts of three and am 1300 into a fourth. One of the three is for Deepwood Publishing's Death God's Chosen antho. Normally necromancy is not my thing, but I had a Twitter convo with someone there, and they urged me to write one since they're publishing one of mine in their "Ways of Magic" antho, so... here I am, writing a clockwork necromancer.

I will forever go down as That Werewolf Writer, and the current WIP stars my go-to Mad Scientist. He's married to a werewolf, who is very much the Alpha bitch in the relationship, and in this one she has to wolf him to save his life. Wackiness, as they say, ensues, and everyone's freaking out. Mine is an evil laugh.

I've also realized that I need to upload more icons to this account, because, hey, I'm still mostly over on LJ and never use this except for F!S. But I'm seeing familiar names here, so Hello, everyone!

[serria]

Those sound interesting! I like necromancy and werewolves, though when I think about it, I haven't really read too much of either. In fact, I don't think I've ever read a book (or watched a series) that starred werewolves, instead of them being side characters. (recommendations welcome!) Anyway, good luck with both of those.

And welcome! You'll probably remember me as the anon that always makes witty, perfectly timed comments, the life of the community. Ahem. Something like that. :P Welcome to the community!

[agilebrit]

Thanks! I've just finished going over the first three stories I wrote this year, and I actually like them, so that's a plus. And the reason I did that instead of writing new words in the new story was because I was stuck on a bunch of procedural fallout in it. After discussing it with the Hubby, I've decided to just gloss over that entirely (because it's not important to the actual story) and work on what happens next. "Show, don't tell" is only applicable when showing is important to the plot--especially in short fiction.

As for recs, well! The Kitty Norville series by Carrie Vaughn is excellent--the first one is "Kitty and the Midnight Hour." And I adore the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs--the first one is "Moon Called." If you like romance, you might enjoy her Alpha and Omega series as well, but it wasn't really my cup of tea because romance is so not my thing. And if you like steampunk (or even if you don't, because seriously, these are awesome), grab Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series. The first one is "Soulless."

I've had a pair of werewolf stories published, with another coming out in April. If you care, there's a sticky post at the top of my journal telling where you can find them and my other stuff (now that I've re-imported my entries and gotten most things up-to-date). :)