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

[embolalia]

I'm completely restructuring my novel for the second draft, and probably throwing out a ton. I did get a new scene written today and a bit of editing on the parts I want to keep, so that feels like progress, but this whole stage feels much more directionless than draft one where I was just writing as many words as fast as possible. We'll see

[scifishipper]

I start to think maybe I should just write that as a novella and actually have something to try to publish on a shorter time frame...

This is exactly my thinking in writing my short story. One of the problems I have had in doing that is that now my focus is split and I can never figure out what to work on. You seem super disciplined, so that might not be an issue for you.

I really did love that short story and making it into a novella feels just right. <3

[embolalia]

I just don't have a ton of discipline for the book right now, and don't want to waste it on something else :P I was so glad you liked it!

[kdbleu]

Since I love editing, that's what feels directed to me, let me know if you need someone to whinge to or whatever. I'm usually around. :)

Finding the balance between different projects is hard. I find it easier of they're in different stages, planning vs editing. But the grass can easily look greener.

[embolalia]

I may! What's strange is, I'm not really editing the language, just coming up with whole new pieces to either strike or write from scratch :P

[kdbleu]

I enjoy both kinds of editing, language and structure, concept. I tend to do some language editing while I do the big picture stuff, but the cuts and additions come first then the word by word read through after everything else is done.

Really, I write just to edit. I swear. hee.

[ecstaticdance]

I'm trying not to get distracted from what I'm doing but then I start to think maybe I should just write that as a novella and actually have something to try to publish on a shorter time frame...

This is my fear as well. Am I letting this all take too long? I don't know the answer.

But! And! The website! Wordpress is a good choice. It seems to be the standard for writers, and I wish I'd realized that when I was setting up my website.

I have two suggestions: First, I think I'd like to see the twitter and goodreads feeds up next to your blog entries, instead of pushed down below them. I don't want to have to scroll to see the ways I can connect with you. Second, one more static page, a library page, once you're published.

But really, I like the clean simplicity of the site. It's easy to read and will stay easy to navigate, even as you add more content. Really nice work.

[embolalia]

Thanks, that helps! I played with a lot of "themes" for layout, and ended on this. If you narrow the window, it does move the widgets up, but I may try a few others for more options. And yes, definitely more content!

[embolalia]

If you have a minute to look, do you think this is better?

http://emmaliedropkin.wordpress.com/

[ecstaticdance]

Yes. Nice work.

[embolalia]

Thanks!