Writing Tip Of The Week

[talithakalago]

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

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[talithakalago]

Despite what I said to you, I’m working on two projects at the moment. Editing one and writing the first draft of another. It’s hurting my head a little as one is first person and the other is third person, but it’s nice to be making progress.

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...