Writing Tip Of The Week
UPDATES:
Tomorrow I should finish the first draft of Lifesphere book 2! I thought I would have it done LOOOONG before now, but now the end is here I can’t believe it’s done. It felt like the novel that never ended for a few weeks there.
Once it’s finished, I’ll be taking a week off. I’ll probably still do a few hundred words a day on some project ( Read more... )
I hope you hear from your agent soon. And it's definitely understandable if you need a little break from LJ. Honestly, I should probably sign off in a minute here and put some serious time into Gnarled Roots.
Hey, what genres do you write in, specifically? I know we've talked about it before, but where do you currently stand. I know you're into fantasy, and I remember you sometimes write horror, though you're much more into splatterpunk type writing than I am. What ever happened to that novel with the girl who kills her husband? Are you still working on that?
Actually... I just realized I have no idea what this project is about. What's the story behind Lifesphere? I need a comprehensive list of your projects, lmao. I feel bad when I can't remember details about my friends' books like that, but it's been awhile since we discussed them.
As for genres I write in, I do a bit of everything. At the moment, I'm trying my best to really focus on my horror. I love urban fantasy and want to try writing more of that. I have dark humor in most everything I do, but I want to specifically start writing some comedies and have some ideas for a universe of novels with reoccurring characters. I also write a lot of paranormal, supernatural ideas. Though many of my current projects fall somewhere into that pile, I also have a thing for coming-of-age stories, contemporary fiction, especially focusing on religious oppression or gay rights.
Actually, this year, another one of my goals is to write something, short story or novel length, in every genre that comes to mind. Just a little exercise in stretching my comfort zone. I did that in a creative writing class, and it was interesting. But I didn't get a chance to dabble in my off-limits zones, like westerns and romance. I did write a satirical vampire romance, though. Not quite the same thing...
Man, sorry, I have so much to say to you today!
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Did you sign off and put time into the horror novel? I hope so! First draft... come on! You’ll be so happy when you get it done!
The genres I write in are horror, fantasy and sci fi. (I’m working on a steampunk project at the moment, but that’s kind of fantasy and sci fi.) The horror about the woman killing her husband is still on the backburner. I keep changing my mind about how I want to write it.
The project with the agent is a young adult sci fi series. The blurb for the first book reads:
Eli’s future is a life spent scavenging on the Rim. He sells trash to survive, while on the Topside, citizens live in hedonistic luxury. Eli dreams of obtaining citizenship by becoming a handler; bonded with a bio-organic life form called a meka.
On the Topside, handlers are celebrities, pitting their skills in televised meka battles. But new legislation will only allow those with citizenship to become handlers and Eli can’t raise the money to buy a meka before the law is passed.
A grifter named Alyx offers Eli a trade: meka of his own, if he competes in an illegal fight to the death. Eli realises his meka can’t win and Alyx has no intention of letting him or his meka escape alive. As Eli flees deeper into the city, he knows Alyx is on his tail. And it’s only a matter of time before Alyx finds them...
Only we changed the bad guy’s name to Kalex since then.
I think your writing goals sound ambitious! I’m terrible at short stories, so I just don’t think it would work for me. Though I did do one I was very pleased with this week for an anthology. So maybe I’ll dabble in some more short stories to entertain myself during lectures or something...
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