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Post by Stout Roost on Mar 9, 2010 9:07:25 GMT -5
Anyone working on anything interesting? Without giving away too much, of course.
I'm working on a follow-up to my upcoming novel as well as an on-line serial about a ghoul and other sidekick monsters. I'm also gearing up to do a collaboration with a guy I've been wanting to work with for a while. That's about a town loosely based on where I grew up with (obviously) strange stuff going on.
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Post by MontiLee on Mar 9, 2010 11:51:25 GMT -5
A few short story ideas have been surfacing and I get them down when I can.
I know I seem to be perpetually finishing Never and CDI, but as the characters evolve, I'm finding more for them to do. It's nice to stretch to see how far they'll go.
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Post by Stout Roost on Mar 9, 2010 15:59:00 GMT -5
How close are you to finishing CDI? You may have to buss someone in the mush and tell them to shut up or else.
I actually realized I needed to add a character when I was halfway done with the first draft. It required a lot of reworking, but in the end, worth it.
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Post by sjp on Mar 9, 2010 18:32:10 GMT -5
Unfortunately, I could answer this question in another thread...my horror is being set to the side at the moment in favor of something else...
But as for projects I'd LIKE to be working on...I have a series about a ghost hunter-for-hire that I've mostly mapped out, but haven't really started too much work on. It actually started out as a bunch of separate horror novel ideas that I looked at and thought, "Why not just have the same guy involved in all of them?"
The first one deals with the whole, "Well, is it ghosts, or an actual person" thing that always seems to come up, like the Pendergast novels or Scooby-Doo, where the guy is trying to figure out what exactly is causing mysterious disappearances (and murders) at a mental hospital. Things get more complicated when the weird events get the attention of a "Ghost Hunters"-type show, who may very well be the next group of victims.
I know it sounds like that old Tales From the Crypt episode with Morton Downey, Jr., but the real focus is on the main guy and him figuring out the mystery of the hospital's sordid past.
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Post by Stout Roost on Mar 10, 2010 8:51:02 GMT -5
My novel kinda sorta has to deal with that. The Ghost Toucher:
“Haven’t you ever picked up your keys for no reason and realized you had nowhere to go?” Israel asked. “Or picked up a pen and didn’t have anything to write?”
“No,” Kelly said.
“Sure you have. Everybody has. It’s like having déjà vu about déjà vu.”
“What?”
“You know—you remember remembering you’ve done a thing before, but you only remember remembering it when you’re remembering it?”
“So when I’m not remembering it, I forget it?”
“You got it.”
“No. No, I don’t.”
In a world where ghosts are an accepted reality, Stout Roost, reality star and host of the Network’s The Ghost Toucher series has vanished. But Israel, the spiritual detective they hire, doesn’t exactly have a plan to find him. Kelly Greene, a customer service rep, is tapped to assist the detective, but he quickly realizes that as far as unconventional methods go, Israel’s are insane. He informs Kelly there is an afterworld and the people there hate ghosts. They also hate the living because they eventually become ghosts and are seeking a ‘clean’ way to exterminate us all. The two learn finding Stout is the least of their worries as they are pursued through metro-Detroit by obsessive compulsive wannabe warriors, mutants who worship an insane deity, weapons from the other side and a mysterious, perpetually pregnant, augmentative woman with a gender complex.
Kelly figures there is much more to Israel than he has let on and after a strange incident learns the detective ties into his own past, including a tragedy that has changed Kelly’s life for the worse. As their pursuers close in in their own wacky, respective ways Kelly and Israel find themselves on the other side where the truth is finally revealed. But can they get back before the wheels threatening the existence of the universe are set in motion? And will they ever get around to finding Stout Roost?
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Post by micah on Mar 10, 2010 10:36:51 GMT -5
Hopefully I will have a chance to do some writing today, but first I have to address the thing I hate most (even more than editing). Follow up e-mails for old submissions. Ugh.
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Post by Michael on Mar 5, 2011 1:28:10 GMT -5
Hi folks -
I just found out my story "The Red Aspen" will be in the June 2011 issue of Ghostlight Magazine so I thought I'd stop in and say hello.
Interesting thread. I'm querying an 81,000-word novel I finished in late February. It's an apocalyptic thriller ( I think I made that one up) that takes place in Montana.
Yesterday I started the second draft of a manuscript I put away in May of 2010. Getting away from it for so long brought nice perspective and allowed me to finish the other novel. It takes place in the U.P. which means lots of Great Lakes content. I hope to have it out to agents in two months. I'd put it in the suspense category, but there is some blood and a nasty creature.
Anyway, nice meeting you.
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Post by peggychristie on Mar 12, 2011 9:43:06 GMT -5
Hey, Michael! Thanks for stopping by!
I've been working on a novel about Chaos for a while. I keep getting stuck. It feels like I probably only have a few chapters to go. I need to create the final "big boss" confrontation and resolution. But like I said, I open up the document and then just stare at the page because I'm not sure how to get to that final stage yet. Dammit.
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Post by geraldrice on Mar 18, 2011 7:35:42 GMT -5
Hey, Michael! Thanks for stopping by! I've been working on a novel about Chaos for a while. I keep getting stuck. It feels like I probably only have a few chapters to go. I need to create the final "big boss" confrontation and resolution. But like I said, I open up the document and then just stare at the page because I'm not sure how to get to that final stage yet. Dammit. Why not write the end? When I was writing The Ghost Toucher, there was a section that I found incredibly boring to write so I just skipped it. By the time I'd written the bulk of the novel I had figured out how to write the part I'd jumped past and it turned out more interesting than I expected. |
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Post by peggychristie on Mar 18, 2011 11:24:09 GMT -5
Hmmmm...interesting tactic. I think I'll have to try that! Thanks!
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Post by makozlowski on May 23, 2011 8:08:40 GMT -5
I have a few irons in the fire.
I am working through some of my short stories that are currently unpublished (many never submitted) with a fresh set of eyes, having let them sit and stew for a while. I am hoping to get through the rewrites and send out submissions as well as grouping them with some of my published work for a potential collection.
Have been steadily publishing work with Scarlet Literary Magazine (a new online mag). It's not a paying market, as yet, but it's new and interesting and I think Janice has a good thing going. I'm happy to "contribute" some work to the effort and it gives me a bit of exposure. I was in the first issue and have stories accepted for the 2nd and 3rd. Need to get thinking about something for issue 4. It has become my mission to be in every issue; my personal "John Ratzenberger/Pixar" relationship.
I have a short-ish suspense/thriller/horror novel that I have let sit for over a year that I am going back to for a final draft. I think it's good to leave things alone for awhile and look at them with fresh eyes for the final re-write (unless you really feel it is the best it can be).
I have also begun scripting a comic series (zombie related with an original twist, IMHO) and have started talking with some artists regarding the illustrating (thanks to some GLAHW members for providing some contacts).
Of course, I am always thinking or writing more stories as the come to me. Some work, some don't. Some are short, some are the beginnings of the next novel. A couple YA ideas have recently popped up and I am exploring those; partially due to reading other authors to my 15 and 9 year old boys during our "reading nights" at home. What I happen to be reading often influences where my mind tends to go for the next story idea.
Whew! Thanks for giving me the space to rant about that. Feels good to see in print what I have in the works. I feel much less like a slacker than usual.
Mike
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Post by makozlowski on May 23, 2011 8:09:42 GMT -5
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Post by annuvin on Jul 5, 2012 23:08:36 GMT -5
I am getting back into the groove by writing a few short stories that have been floating around in my head for awhile (see The Man Who Hated Mirrors in the Orne Library). This is kind of a warm up to finally complete my first novel "A Dark and Holy Night". It is a novel of decades-old revenge from beyond the grave and a reflection of how our choices can often alter our paths forever. The story will begin in the 1930's and continue on sometime in the 1960's or 70's. I'll keep you all posted on my progress!  |
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Post by Jim Leach on Jul 19, 2012 10:47:59 GMT -5
How I'm Spending My Summer Vacation: I'm currently hammering away at a haunted high school novel. I think I've got a novel twist on the Scooby-Doo / X-Files conundrum. It started from a non-fiction piece I wrote called "Why Ghost Stories Suck."
I wrote a good first draft of the book a couple years ago for NaNoWriMo with the lead character being a computer teacher. Then it struck me it might be more fun (not to mention more salable, y'know as YA) if the main character was a high school student. With that belated realization, so many details are clicking into place.
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Post by maryelizabeth on Oct 22, 2012 20:34:24 GMT -5
I am currently working on a short story called "The Bent Men of Dion" centered around the loup-garou myths that surround Detroit, and also a novel entitled so far "Crawley" which takes place during the late 1800's and deals with the origins of Henry Armitage.
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