What's your current WiP?

Jun 13, 2011 11:11


I made what I believe will turn out to have been a big decision last week.

I currently have five WiPs (all novels), none of which are at the query-ready stage. I decided to stop jumping about between them and just pick one to work on.

As you can imagine, with the news about the upcoming paperback version of Fur-Face, I decided the smart choice ( Read more... )

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jongibbs June 13 2011, 15:26:55 UTC
"...came to me in a flash"

Pun intended? :)

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msstacy13 June 13 2011, 15:42:10 UTC
Oh, right...
*snort*

At first, I was thinking flashbulb or superhero or...

flash...

Mhm...

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snapes_angel June 13 2011, 15:22:18 UTC
Oh. I'm just horsing around. Literally, of course. And yes, that =is= with my WIP. Just equine nation, y' know? Because it's a state of mind.

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snapes_angel June 13 2011, 15:23:28 UTC
Of course, that one project involves several novels, all in various stages of completion.

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jongibbs June 13 2011, 15:27:21 UTC
Writing a series is fun :)

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snapes_angel June 13 2011, 15:57:18 UTC
Yea. One thing that held it up is, I didn't want mine ot end up like some authors (including one that really drove me out of an otherwise-nice Marion Zimmer Bradley Darkover one) and... I just didn't want glaring inconsistencies like weather patterns, or anything. Granted, well-kept author notes can help keep a few of those things in line, but finding the beginning to a particular , key story arc, can have a major impact on what you're writing, as it's the point where the changes REALLY begin, and the point at which your story originates. I have it at a point in media res and at the point where major changes start. Finding this point has taken me the better part of almost twenty year, so... I dun'wanna screw it up. :p

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peadarog June 13 2011, 15:31:29 UTC
Focusing is definitely helpful to those of us who don't multi-task well. Me, for example!

My current WIP is a giant Epic fantasy type thingy.

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jongibbs June 13 2011, 15:55:47 UTC
Lol, I love it already :)

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snapes_angel June 13 2011, 15:59:24 UTC
My current WIP is a giant Epic fantasy type thingy.

Do you have a pet name for yours? I refer to mine as "The Behemoth" (when not referring to it by the name I'd initially, and still currently, anointed it with).

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peadarog June 13 2011, 16:00:09 UTC
My pet name is "Cliff War", although that title no longer makes any sense...

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knittingknots June 13 2011, 15:51:54 UTC
You don't know how it pleases me to hear you too have 5 wips. LOL.

The one that's currently getting all the love is a somewhat snarky fantasy story. Going well too; I refuse to name it yet lest I jinx the progress...LOL. All my other WIPS have names, and I've revealed bits of it on blogs. Not this one.

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jongibbs June 13 2011, 15:57:29 UTC
I hadn't realized I was doing it before, but I think I was having such a good time doing all the fun bits of writing, I'd forgotten you spometimes have to knuckle down and work through the not-so-much-fun stuff too.

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knittingknots June 13 2011, 18:24:07 UTC
There is always the not so fun stuff. Learning to be a real writer is learning how to work through that, I suspect!

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msstacy13 June 13 2011, 15:54:46 UTC
Since you ask, Brothers, Keepers, Losers, Weepers,
which hardly moved at all during the two months I'd given it,
has begun working with me,
so I've been hammering at it.

For anyone who hasn't already been bored to tears hearing about it,
it's a novel featuring my most popular character,
if three or four people liking a character constitutes popularity.
Anyway, Stefanie Tricarico, the stealth transsexual homicide detective,
while in the midst of solving crime after crime after crime
is shanghaied to the sonora desert of Mexico
by the cagiest killer ever to have given her the slip.

When I've wrapped that up,
or if I need to give it a rest,
I'm figuring I'll start the Nikita Khrushchev portion of the prologue
of the War Correspondent novel,
or begin This Flag We Tore From Nothing
a novel of The Battle of Britain from the PoV of a German bomber pilot.

Meanwhile,
I hope the sequel goes well for you.

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jongibbs June 13 2011, 15:58:14 UTC
She of Your Stef's a Detective fame, yes?

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msstacy13 June 13 2011, 16:20:13 UTC
If half-a-dozen copies is fame, yes...

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msstacy13 June 13 2011, 16:51:55 UTC
Oh, wait, I'm sounding all whiney and mopey,
aren't I?

Anyway,
whenever I've completed this,
I'll have to be querying,
and since we've already established that I write those so poorly
that I'd be better off mailing the menu from a Chinese Restaurant
to prospective agents,
feel free to run a recap of
Interesting Posts About Writing Decent Queries
sometime this summer...

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