What Are You Working On?

[scifishipper]

Hello writerly-inclined folk! :)

What are you all working on these days? Writing? Editing? Publishing? Have you started anything new? Received any interesting feedback? Had any breakthroughs or stumbles? How goes the progress on your current work? Give us the details!

What are you up to in the world of writing?

Comments

[ecstaticdance]

Yes

[lanalucy]

It sounds like you're making good progress on your trilogy, even if you're dissatisfied with where you are.

:good vibes:

Congrats on your story!

[ecstaticdance]

Thanks!

I think I sound more dissatisfied than I am. Disillusioned maybe is more accurate? I'd hoped to get through it faster. That's just not my reality, and when I'm not comparing myself to other people (never a good idea anyways), I'm okay with that.

[ecstaticdance]

**blush**

I will let you know! Thank you! **hugs**

P.S. - Me, too. :(

[scifishipper]

CONGRATULATIONS! WOW!! SO MUCH WRITING! That is amazing. It must be so fantastic to be published and busy and SO DAMNED FOCUS. I admire it completely!! YOU ROCK!!!

[ecstaticdance]

WHEE! Thank you. It does feel good.

I worry sometimes that I'm so focused on doing things my way that I'm maybe shooting myself in the foot, but... I'm trying to trust my instinct on how this story has to happen, and on this story needing to be what I work on now, even if it slows down the bigger picture.

[kdbleu]

I'm so excited for you and Oblong! YAY!!!

I love Pinterest for visuals. So cool to have somewhere to check in with those things. I have one for my mystery and two more inspiration boards. It's fun.

[ecstaticdance]

I have one for my mystery and two more inspiration boards. It's fun.

I really, really need to submit a suggestion for nested boards. Right now, I have a different board for each character, and other boards for other things, and... I want to group them. By book, mostly. But whatever. It is a neat tool, and I'm glad I took the plunge. And also that I've managed to stay on task while I use it, rather than getting lost in it.

[kdbleu]

Nested boards would be awesome! I'd also like a way to organize withing boards, like nested boards actually only you could still see all the pins but with ideas in clumps.

Pinterest is my most successful internet venture in many ways. In the beginning I could get sucked down the rabbit hole, but I've evened out and find it really useful for a lot of different things, from writing to recipes to sewing projects. It's kind of a surprise really.

[scifishipper]

As you know, I love Pinterest and repin a zillion things. What I found is that when I started boards for my other novel, the grifting one, I felt myself less and less interested in building the world. It was strange. Now I don't use it at all for fic. IDK why my brain does that. #random

[kdbleu]

I have a similar issue with world building on paper, that I end up uninterested in writing the story only building this intricate world. But Pinterest I don't have to think about. I can just put those visuals away without becoming distracted or making that my investment.

And I discovered with Harlowe's story that I frequently need a picture of I'm going to describe something well at all. So having used Pinterest for that, early, it was a tool before it could be an escape.

[ecstaticdance]

Wouldn't they? Right now, I only have the one world, but when I move on, I'm going to want to be able to keep my Wizard's Revenge boards separate from my other worlds/stories.

I resisted Pinterest for the longest time because I was afraid of the rabbit hole aspect. Now, I'm glad I gave it a chance.

[kdbleu]

You could make separate accounts, but the idea of nested boards is so fabulous. If you send me what you request, I will request it too. Then we can be, like, a movement. :D

[ecstaticdance]

I like it!

[mlsky]

And I need to do another post with links and blurbs and all the good stuff! YAY!!