List all the things you’re currently working on in as much or little detail as you’d like, then tag some friends to see what they’re working on: writing, art, gifsets, whatever.
I was tagged by @tcstu and @the960writers (and vague-tagged by @brynwrites), and it’s taken me a while to get to it. I won’t talk about everything that’s technically a WIP because the list would be, well, extensive, and nobody has time for that.
Instead, I’ll introduce a few and I’ll introduce the tags I’ve started to use for them so if anything sounds particularly interesting, you can follow it. (Why, though?) Also, all of the titles are technically working titles. Except maybe #2. I don’t know if I could ever bring myself to change that one.
1) The Wastelanders (The Farthest Along)
Status: One complete first draft in need of major revisions. MAJOR revisions. Like, a new start and several new chapters and possibly a new ending and definitely a lot of new stuff in the middle.
Counts: 170,500 words in 28 chapters
Genre: Science fiction of the post-apocalyptic (sort of) variety
Blurb: The world has been broken, shattered, and poisoned by war. A biochemical weapon (the Agent), lingers in the atmosphere, warping the genetic makeup of everyone who breathes it in or consumes it through food or drink. The Agent is everywhere, permeating everything, except the City, a research complex sealed under a dome. Daphne, once a member of the security force that kept the City safe, flees into the Wasteland to protect herself with the help of one of the City’s researchers, a nervous man called Dmitri, who swears he will join her once he has finished his project: a counter to the Agent.
Years later, in the Wastes, Daphne meets Jackson, a man mutated so far as to seem inhuman. They fall slowly into a working reliance upon each other, forging a fragile friendship which each of them endangers with the secrets of their pasts. After rescuing Jackson from a cruel captivity masquerading as a circus, Daphne entrusts Jackson with a secret of her own. When Dmitri is kidnapped, Daphne must face the fact that Jackson was the wrong person to trust.
Tag: #the wastelanders
2) Amy Zero, Agent for Heroes (The One I Told My Friends I Would Work On)
Status: Started as a NaNoNovel in 2015, I’ve probably written less than 1/3 of the plot at this point
Counts: 55,500 words - no chapters
Genre: Speculative Fiction? I don’t know – how do you classify semi-satirical superhero novels?
Blurb: Amy Zero lives in a tiny apartment under the weight of student debt, runs her own business, and works daily with some of the biggest names in New York City: Geometry of Form, Infinity Blaster, Fallen Stars. Well, they’re not the biggest names yet, but with Amy arranging their press conferences, negotiating endorsement contracts, and booking them at conventions, they will be.
Just don’t tell anyone that Fallen Stars used to be Legion of Souls, and almost sank half of Central Park. Amy’s skill lies in rebranding: turning Villains into Heroes (and, though less often, vice versa), but when the Technocrat–swirling cloak, green and black leotard, lifts in his boots–asks her to represent him, she knows she is facing the toughest challenge of her career.
Tag: #amy zero
3) Rown of Surce (The One I’m Actually Working On)
Status: Two drafts down, about 2/3 of the way through draft 3
Counts: 33,600 in the second draft, currently at 20,000 in the third. Also, nine chapters so far in the third draft, which is the first draft in which I made chapters.
Genre: Fantasy
Blurb: Enormous spiders erupt from the ground in the midst of a battle between Dersmyth and Ceraya, poisoning and capturing soldiers from both sides indiscriminately, wrapping them in fibers and saving them to be eaten later.
In the wake of this devastation, Peter of Dersmyth goes in search of his brother but finds a Cerayan instead. The daywalker has been poisoned by the spiders in excess, puncture wounds covering his body. Peter enlists the help of Eirik, a doctor and Peter’s sister, in saving the Cerayan’s life so he can point them towards their brother. But there is more magic than medicine at work in the daywalker’s healing, revealing something even Peter, an antiquarian, had thought long lost.
Tag: #rown of surce
4) The Future War (The Weirdly Old One I Throw Words At Occasionally)
Status: I know a lot of what happens in this story, but it’s taken a while to come up with an actually good idea of how to do it.
Counts: 11,100 words in three documents that don’t differentiate chapters
Genre: Science Fiction
Blurb: Colonel Lia Isaacs wakes from a cryogenic experiment to find one hundred seven years has passed instead of seven weeks. The world she knew, the super-national organizations she knew, and everyone she ever knew, has long been gone. Instead she finds herself in a world at war with a nameless, faceless alien enemy that strikes civilian and military targets indiscriminately. Fleet Captain Tamora Kesh believes that Lia Isaacs (who has been told she can't call herself colonel since the military that gave her that title is defunct) may be a key part of a daring solution to combat the alien threat.
Isaacs, joined by a civilian freighter pilot, a mercenary, the military's golden child, and a convicted traitor, takes the fight to the enemy under the direction of Fleet Captain Kesh, whose tactics are met with success after success. But after a routine mission results in something unexpected, Isaacs finds herself questioning the nature of the enemy and the war itself.
Tag: #the future war
5) Madda and Abraxos (The New One I Throw Words at Occasionally)
Status: Just started.
Counts: 2,900 words
Genre: Fantasy
Blurb: Madda is a child born of both moons, possessed, as such children are, of magic. She is pulled from her tribe, from her life in the desert, to the citadel of the King to serve his daughter as a magician. This is not a simple service, but a fierce competition between herself and the prince's magician, a powerful man named Abraxos. Madda struggles to maintain her identity as a tribeswoman of the desert while living on the floodplain, struggles to remain human when confronted daily by the inhumanity of Abraxos, who means to kill her, as he has the last four magicians before her.
As the conflict between Madda and Abraxos intensifies, she realizes that she is not his only target. But when she has barely enough magic to save herself, how can she save anyone else?
Tag: #madda and abraxos
I could go on. No. Really. I could. It’s insane. I have too many ideas and too many in various stages of started and drafted and edited. In my Evernote, there are 13 notebooks with stories I’m in various stages of writing, as well as the Random notebook (where I put less developed ideas and stories) which has 27 notes.
Tags I will probably tag some folks who have been tagged already, or who have done this already, if that’s you, feel free to ignore this tag (or tag me in a reblog of your version of this post because tagging you means I want to know). As usual, also, anyone who wants to do this that I didn’t tag, feel free! (Consider all of yourselves vague-tagged). @stitchcasual, @24zallurabbits, @thiswaitingheart, @the-poetic-mathematician, @s-the-dragon, @seventeenbirds, @mendelworth, and @glory-on-your-lips, consider yourselves explicitly tagged.
