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emsuniverse · Jul 27, 2006

I didn't see a post like this anywhere on the YA board. I was wondering what everyone is working on?

Currently, I'm working on two WIPS - one is a YA mystery, almost complete; the other one is a women's fiction adult novel that's doing great but barely off the ground.

Em

britlitfantw · Jul 28, 2006

I'm in the rewriting phase of a YA fantasy novel with elemental magic, sacrifice and duty.

Hoping to get the rewriting done by the end of September (at the latest) and off to three publishers (picked 'em already) by the end of October.

moondance · Jul 28, 2006

Have made a start on a historical YA novel and am also writing a fantasy play for my school production next year (finding the play easier to write than the novel, lol)

Also in the pipeline:
on-going discussions with publisher about the cover for my contemporary YA novel due out next Feb
discussions about a trashy YA series with another publisher - have done two rewrites of a proposal so far
on-going editing of a reluctant reader with a publisher

K-Mark · Jul 28, 2006

I am waiting on two different agents for two different books. One is a YA/MG detective story. The other is a women's fiction thriller.

While I'm waiting (ugh) I'm working on a script.

In my drawer I have a MG sports book (baseball) that I have sent out a few queries. Also, I have a lad-lit book that is finished and waiting on some queries.

I have my first freelance article being published in Jan 07 and sent out of few queries about two other articles. Waiting on them.

stephblake24 · Jul 28, 2006

I have 1 MG WIP about 2600 words so far...

Making the rounds:
1 women's fiction (partial at 2 different editors/pub)
1 light YA for boys (11 queries-1 request for a partial)
13 PB's (at various pubs, 1 is a maybe)
1 non-fiction humor (1 proposal at pub since May)

I have relatives in town, so I haven't written in a week. BUMMER.

Zolah · Jul 28, 2006

Let's see - book#1 (a YA re-telling of a classic Hans Christian Andersen fairytale) is due for publication in March 2007, book#2 (a YA story about war, race, faith and love) will follow in March 2008. Book#3 (Georgette Heyer meets Minority Report) is with my editor and we're about to start work on revising that, and I'm still working with my editor on what I hope will be minor revisions to book#2. I've just started plotting out book#4 (YA Elizabethan Alternate history) and I've actually begun writing book#5 (contemporary story incorporating historical elements about bullying and mass-hysterial among young people aimed at 8-12 age group). And I'm planning a sequel to book#3.

josephwise · Jul 28, 2006

In terms of YA, I've just revised a novel about societal abuse explored within a modern and non-derivative American mythology. I wish I knew a better way to describe that.

Watermonkey · Jul 28, 2006

I'm revising a first draft of a historical fantasy YA which is going slowly. I'm also more attentively working on a YA urban fantasy and a couple short stories.

Nashelle · Jul 28, 2006

I'm halfway through a novel with another novel processing in my head ready for my third year at uni.

Kristen King · Jul 28, 2006

Great thread!

I'm reviving and revamping a novel I outlined and started drafting several years ago and have been thinking about peripherally ever since.

Kristen

Arisa81 · Jul 28, 2006

In the YA novel department I am working on the outline/timeline of my novel idea.

Other:
* finishing a quiz I started earlier this week
* writing new poetry/greeting card verse
* submitting, resubmitting, organizing work :tongue

LeeFlower · Jul 28, 2006

My current WIP, which isn't YA, is in overdrive right now, so my YAs are on the back-burner until that one's ready for the betas.

But my main YA W(sort of)IP follows a trio of apprentice craft-magicians through a colonial-era world as they battle their own self-doubts made manifest. It's about confidence, self-knowledge, and the art of the well-timed wisecrack.

cuteshoes · Jul 28, 2006

I have a women's fiction adult novel I'm about to begin querying for.

I have a YA wip that is just about done with the first draft. It's ging to come in at 75k so I'll need to edit it down a bit. It's about twin sisters who are so sick of being around each other that they decide to split up and go to seperate camps for the usmmer (sleepaway and teen travel) to see if they can make friends and fend for themselves without the other. It's the first book in a series. Didn't mean to write a series but it seems to be working out that way since i alreayd have ideas for book #2.

CaptMorgan · Jul 28, 2006

I'm shopping a mainstream YA to agents at the moment and I'm trying to decide on one idea for my next WIP.

Bryan Reardon · Jul 29, 2006

I'm trying to stop crusing the internet and get back to work.....

As for the writing, I am making final revisions on my YA sci-fi before it makes the rounds. Once that is done, I have to decide where to go from there. I have three synopsi and have to choose which to start fleshing out a little.

KimJo · Jul 30, 2006

I'm working on book 25 of the Neverending Amorphous Blob Series... It all started with one YA urban fantasy kind of thing about a teenage boy with psychic abilities who discovered a force of darkness preying on people with psychic abilities in his town. It was supposed to be just one book, really it was. LOL. But that one book grew into a series of 10, then a couple minor characters from that series demanded their own, which was another 10, and now I'm on a series that chronologically follows the first one, of which I'm on the fifth of a planned 10. I'm also working on revising and editing the other 24 while I write this one. And the book that started it all, as far as I've been told, will be on shelves within the next year to eighteen months

stormie · Jul 30, 2006

No YA's this time, just going between two WIP that are MGs. Also writing short stories (mild horror for adults) and essays.

Sage · Jul 31, 2006

I'm editing my first YA novel, while occasionally revisiting the 2nd (which is also done, but it needs a lot of help).

My newest WIP has been on hold for a while. I'm bad, I know. But I'll get back to it once I get out of Editland.

Evaine · Aug 1, 2006

My YA fantasy is at an agent at the moment - they're reading the entire ms, which is quite exciting.
I also have book 2, about the same characters, ready for revision, and I'm playing around with another story, about different characters, set in the same universe.

Legionsynch · Aug 1, 2006

I'm working on a YA manuscript in the vein of the 'magickal teen' story. Something more along the lines of Christopher Pike or RL Stine, mixed with a bit of LJ Smith and others.

That is, if I ever get off my butt and start writing again. I don't think writer's block is synonymous with 'lazy.'

Soccer Mom · Aug 12, 2006

Welcome Legion.

I've got an adult mystery making the rounds right now. *crosses fingers* I'm deep into another adult book, but for some reason this YA story popped into my head and I started writing it. I can't step away. I'm smitten with the characters. Go figure.

TwentyFour · Aug 13, 2006

I'm currently at 40,000 words on my ms...a YA of love, family, sex, drugs, moonshine, and fast cars (sort of American Graffiti meets Dukes of Hazzard crossed with The Outsiders)...a real blast to write since I know my characters inside and out. I'm writing around 500 to 1000 to 1500 words a day now so I'm hoping to finish by the end of the year and have rewrites finished soon after. I'm thrilled to be writing it with such passion, the places in the town are real too...I researched my town and used actual diners and drive ins with the story. I just hope others enjoy it as well. I've had people I know who are near 40 read it and say they feel they knew the characters...then I have friends who are my age who feel the same about these young characters...I hope to be a success!

SoccerMom...my beta readers say they are smitten with my characters, even going as far as telling me to not let bad things happen to one of them...they all became overly fascinated with this young boy and his life...how funny!

To be honest...I am smitten with all the characters and want them to be happy...I know that isn't what will happen but who knows?

Soccer Mom · Aug 16, 2006

I hear you, Jo. I always care about my characters, but these ones--I just can't get them out of my head. I haven't had any adult beta readers, but my teen ones seem taken with them too.

I've started reading teen fiction again for the first time in years. I find that a lot of it simply doesn't interest me, but I've found some that does. I can't stand some of the idiotic "Chick-lit for girls" books out there. They are truly dreadful!

Aesposito · Aug 17, 2006

I am finally taking the fiction plunge after years of making a living at non-fic. I just sent off a short story to Highlights. And I have started a YA novel that has been perculating in my head for years. Wish me luck!

Audrey

Provrb1810meggy · Aug 17, 2006

I'm doing the whole query thing on one YA novel. Basically, it's about three gifted best friends and working toward their goals during eighth grade. Then, I planned out and recently started the first draft of another YA novel, this one more chick-lit/romance.

roll call

emsuniverse

Back to freelancing again...

britlitfantw

moondance

K-Mark

Philly Phanatic

stephblake24

Zolah

Over the hills and far away

josephwise

Watermonkey

Nashelle

Kristen King

Arisa81

LeeFlower

Lurker Extraordinaire

cuteshoes

CaptMorgan

Bryan Reardon

KimJo

Outside the box, with the werewolves

stormie

storm central

Sage

Our Lady of Parentheticals

Evaine

Legionsynch

Soccer Mom

Crypto-fascist

TwentyFour

practical experience, FTW

Soccer Mom

Crypto-fascist

Aesposito

Provrb1810meggy