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Jessianodel

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I was just curious to see what everyone else was working on, because I've heard some really cool ideas on here. And it's fun to read about what other people think up too. :D

So...

What's everyone writing??
 

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I'm working on two things at the moment..

An historical romance which I like the writing style of, but which is stalled due to (lack of) plot issues. Stalled on about 44 000 words

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A contemporary urban fantasy slash paranormal romance, I'm on 23 000 words at the moment.

It's the story of Emily, a twenty something office drone that needs to turn her life around after the breakup from hell. She was thinking a new hairstyle, maybe some shoes, but instead, she gets turned into a vampire with a major problem - she has an aversion to blood, and can't stop herself from feeding on the emotions of people around her.

Hi jinks and romance ensue :)

What are YOU writing? :D
 

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I have about 50 books started (by which I mean about an average of three pages, then stop-not very good at staying with something...)

So I'm trying to just focus on one of my projects, which is a YA fantasy.

It's about these four kids who grew up part of the Netju clan, and were trained to protect the Empress against the Samuaii, their enemies. They find an abandoned temple, where a Samuaii Lord is hiding out, and magic staffs made from stolen sacred candles. They kill the Lord, and the Lord's son somehow joins the Netju. But then the Empress is kidnapped, so the four kids, and the Samuaii go out to try and rescue her. But the team leader doesn't trust the Samuaii, so there's a lot of tension in the group, and when things go wrong, guess who's blamed?

And your book sound really cool, a different twist to the boring old drinking blood vampire.
 

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Y'all are interesting!

I'm on a multi genre spree. Check my siggy,lol.

But right now my main focus is horror and urban fantasy.
 

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I work on two at one time. I;ve just finsihed my sci-fi/fantasy/historical book about Persephone, and I'm halfway through an adult book about gay angels, plus I've just started a ya novel about aliens.
 

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I have more stories than I would care to admit to floating around in need of finishing, but my main one is a YA fantasy with an Alice in Wonderland style concept, but with a twist. My back up is a deep sea horror based around the Cthuhlu Mythos (because I <3 Lovecraft, basically...).
 

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I am rewriting from scratch an urban fantasy thriller now called Miasma. I'm trying to unlearn a couple of very bad habits that have been getting me rejections from agents (I never get easy problems to solve).

I also have a short story into an anthology, and meta fiction I need to finish up by the end of the month.
 

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:cry:wow everyone sounds like they're almost done...

I'm-slowly-working on mine. but those books sound super interesting. And miasma is a really cool title
 
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50 incomplete works? Wow! The most incomplete works I've ever had were six, and right now, excluding the one I'm working on right now, I have three incomplete works left and three new novels that I have the plot written down for but haven't started. I don't think there's anything more frustrating than having 1 incomplete work and not being able to continue it, let alone 50. :(
 

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At the moment I'm working on a YA dystopian with fantasy elements. There's also a heavy set of Christian/Jewish mythology. At the moment I'm 60K in. I expect another 30-40K, so it's going to be a long one. Which is good. Usually my books are only about 70-80K.

I find I can only work on one project at a time. I used to write 2 or 3 at a time, but I would get so distracted. My manuscripts come out a lot cleaner if I do one book at a time.
 

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I'm currently editing and reworking a few chapters of my semi finished Paranormal Romance. I've also started work on a few other stories, one is a Paranormal YA, the other is another Paranormal Romance.
 

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I'm working on a YA/MG fantasy called Tome.
It's a world where books aren't just entertaining, they're magical. Tome is a tiny world unto itself, where knowledge is passed from one Master to the next via the reading of magical Tomes. The MC is a boy at the beginning of his apprenticeship to the Master Baker (which he is not thrilled about), but things go awry and he finds himself embroiled in castle intrigue, a plot to overthrow the King, and a discovery about the nature and origin of the Tomes that will open up his world in ways no one would have imagined...that is, no one except the King.

Wow... that was wordy, but it was my first ever stab at a synopsis... lol
 

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SouthernYankee- that is one of the coolest summaries I've heard. Magical books? Man, that is like my whole world! lol

Magali: you're telling me! My imagination can't settle down, and it makes everything I write look horrible! So my writing experiences are kind of rough and distracted. I keep dreaming of getting my own private writing study, where no one will bother me, but that probably won't happen anytime soon
 

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I'm finishing off editing a little zine with socialist writers to be released next month, got some cool short stories and poetry in that.

Also finalising edits for a short story that will be published in an anthology, Chinese Whisperings - The Yang Book.

Then just some short stories and a novella under a project I'm working on, a collection of Marxist horror called Capital Comes Dripping
 

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I'm working on two that fall into the realm of Commercial Fiction, but I can't really place them into a specific genre. One is a more serious novel than the other; dealing with emotions more than action, while my second novel is more fast-paced and driven by action alone. Both main characters, however, are female and mentally ailed in some way. I didn't notice until I went back and started looking at the stuff I wrote. >.>;
 

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SouthernYankee- that is one of the coolest summaries I've heard. Magical books? Man, that is like my whole world! lol

Thanks so much! You know, it totally blew my mind when that came out of my fingers so quickly, and your comment totally made my night. I am slagging through a writing difficulty right now, so that was timely.
 

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I work on two at one time. I;ve just finsihed my sci-fi/fantasy/historical book about Persephone, and I'm halfway through an adult book about gay angels, plus I've just started a ya novel about aliens.

My current WIP is also about Persephone. It's a Contemporary Fantasy. :tongue
 

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Present WIP (16k words so far): A low-key urban fiction/mystery about a group of maladjusted magical college students who try to stop the deaths of students in their rural campus after the doctor proves incompetent. Whether they succeed in not killing each other is as big a question as whether they succeed in not getting killed by other means



Backburner (94k words so far): Political thriller/mystery. A young man and his friends discover that a Senator's daughter has just been killed. A drug induced fantasy convinces the MC that there's enough evidence to pin the crime on him, so he goes out to find the real killer first. Things escalate when an shadowy man claiming to represent the Senator "rescues him," and the mission to clear his name becomes part of a greater mission to dismantle a rival political group before a second civil war sets off.

I don't know if I ever will finish that one. Even at 94,000 words, it's less than a third of what I have envisioned.







Way way way way on the backburner: Another urban fantasy. On the night zombies simultaneously strike every city on the planet, a scrawny teenager gets dragged into an all-out war between established orders of Magic Knights and a upstart group that wants to use the zombie apocalypse to impose their rule on the world by convincing world governments they are the good ideas.

My feelings on this are...complicated. The backstory and where I wanted to take it are rather large in scale. The fight between the two groups is just a sideshow that gets eclipsed when Satan is released. God is a 16 year old girl that got chopped up into little pieces when she pissed her Angels a bit too much, Heaven is ruled over by genocidal nuts that want to exterminate all mortal life, and Hell is a wonderful place where mortal souls are digested as a delicacy by a social democracy.
On the other hand, it sucks. Which is why it is WAYYYYY on the backburner :p
 

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Something very, very dirty. My first memoir.....actually, it started out as the first, but now it's my second. It's a long story.

Anyway, the important thing is that it's dirty filthy smutty. Yanno, best seller material :D
 

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Historical. Regency spy thingy which is one of a series that starts way back in 1460. Research seems to be taking me forever - the storyline is based on three events that took place in 1810. There are times when I wish I had not found out about them!
 
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