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?

Comments

[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*