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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[lady_phenyx]

I'm working on two long fanfics and some random little ones whenever the mood strikes me, plus two original novels. Both were Nanowrimo novels, so there's a lot of editing to do.

The first I wrote the first draft of about two years ago. I'm building the world from the ground up, since everyone in it is anthropomorphic. My MC is a doctor who can heal with magic, which is rare enough he's kept it a secret, who's been kidnapped to try and heal a half-crazed super soldier a mafia-like organization created. It's following their fight to be free and get away from the leader who's obsessed with the doctor.

The other I'm still writing, where a pair of sister-goddesses and their fight against a god who is trying to take over the world (dun dun duuuun). They have five mortals helping them, and they have to fight the five mortals the god has chosen to mirror them, while everything heads for war and my MC(female) and the Night Goddess try to ignore how they're falling in love. (So, pretty much I'm trying my hand at an epic fantasy with a seven main character cast, could go up to nine main characters, only two of which are male.)

[inkdust]

Wow, that fantasy epic is intense! I've written a rough draft with four POV characters (3rd person limited, not first) and that was tough. Your idea sounds awesome. I lean toward a higher female to male character ratio and I wish more fiction/fantasy stories did the same.

[lady_phenyx]

Thanks - it is being intense, I've never written a war before and now I'm stuck a bit. I do tend towards more female characters, or at least female main characters. Actually, I think the doctor story is the first novel I've worked on with a male MC. (The others have a female witch, female vampire, and two witches at magic college for MCs, and the one where three females and their male friend are trying to take back their kingdom - they need rewriting very badly.)

[inkdust]

War is tough. The trilogy that I'm going to try to build from the multiple POV draft is a dystopian story that starts with a government takeover and ends with a government re-takeover and I'm so intimidating trying to figure out the world building because I'm going for realism and I know very little about government and politics and nothing about war. Then adding in things like survival skills...why do we write such difficult things, you know? Hah.

[inkdust]

Um...intimidated*

[sarillia]

I wish you luck with your epic fantasy. My last finished story had 11 POV characters and each of them had friends and family and stuff and I was getting so frustrated trying to keep track of everyone.

I like the sound of the story. I've realized that I have a thing for goddess characters.

I like the doctor one too.

[lady_phenyx]

Thanks, I think I need the luck. I'm at the part that didn't get planned out, and it needs a lot of setup to make it work. Basically, the middle third of the novel - the entire war.

I've come to enjoy my goddesses too - but I keep flailing when trying to decide what exactly limits them. It's no fun when they could just wave a hand and end everything.

The doctor one is being a lot of fun, since I've realized I have certain things I tend to write a lot. I'm trying to get them all out in the doctor novel so I can get them out of my system, lol.

[sarillia]

I know what you mean about the limits. I've written several god(dess) characters and I've had that issue too. In one story, the main character asks one of her goddesses why they can't do something and she says that they have their own gods that have to obey. I wasn't expecting that and if I ever go back to revise that story I will either change it or do a lot more work on that, but it was interesting.

[serria]

Also chiming in to say your goddess epic sounds awesome! And am I reading it right, it has lesbian romance? Please finish it ASAP so I can put it on my Kindle and start reading, like, now. It sounds great, as does the one about the doctor.

[lady_phenyx]

You're reading it right, definitely going for a lesbian romance. There may be some other pairings, but those two are what it's all building up to. I'm trying to finish it, but the middle bit didn't get planned out and it's giving me fits.

It's not the only lesbian romance I've written, the others just need finished or re-written pretty badly. (One is a pair of witches at a magic college vs the vampires trying to overrun the magic community, the other is another fantasy where magic selects a new 'king' every hundred years, and the woman it chose is on the run with the two other women and one man it chose to be her 'court' since the current 'king' has no intention of giving up the throne.)

[serria]

Wow, nice. I write lesbian romance, too. And gay romance. Actually, my problem is that I have little interest in writing straight protagonists, if romance is included at all. I just have more fun writing gay pairings (I'm gay myself, so that might have something to do with it.)

Since I write in the fantasy/sci-fi genre, I always wonder if that's a strike against me when I get to the point of trying to publish something.

I like the witch idea, too. Please let me know if you put anything online, or even have anything published, it sounds like what you write would definitely be something I'd love to read. :D

[sarillia]

I'm the same way with LGB romance. That's why I've been looking into small LGBT publishers who like fantasy. Seems like my best chance at getting something published.