What is your current project?

Currently working on a few projects, mostly science fiction themed analysis of modern society in the style of Vonnegut, Heinlein, R.A. Wilson, and a dash of Palahniuk. I'll post a few excepts once this forum gets active because I am shy.

Ah what the hell, Gene was descriptive with his ideas...I'll post some information about my books, and if anyone here rips them off, writes them and publishes them I'll stab them with a rusty icepick.

My more major of my current projects include:
A more realistic science fiction "serial" type story that deals with the privatization of space travel after the discovery of alien races leads to interstellar commerce. The man character is a rejected military pilot who finds a place on the crew of ones of the more unsavory vessels and eventually betrays his/her simple dream of space travel for becoming a "space mobster" of sorts. Haven't decided on the main character being male or female yet. This one is in early brainstorming stages and a few scraps I've written.

A slacker twentysomething who lives a normal humdrum life until one day he comes in contact with 5 alternate versions of himself, and can either see reality through their eyes or all 5 at once. At first none of them are in control of this but work on figuring out how to work together in separating their realities. As the story progresses the realities begin to merge and destroy each other and a bunch of weird shit ensues. The book jumps scenes in a fairly non-linear fashion and constantly refers to itself being a book. I'll post the first chapter or so of this one sometime, although I must warn some versions of the character are rather rude, chauvinistic, and foul at times.

A rather huge fantasy epic involving fallen inter-dimensional tribes (of which the silly legends of angels are based ) helping topple an oppressive totalitarian dictatorship in a post apocalyptic recovering earth, only to have the ruler of their own dimension become furious with this and launch his own invasion to eradicate earth. (Did anyone catch all that?) I've been working on this one for quite some time, but it's gone through several incarnations and rewrites, so for all the work I've put in...I don't have much to show at the moment. The first version was at about 50,000+ words, the 2nd at 30,000, and the current and only incarnation I've ever been happy with is at a measily 5,000 words. All together with notes, outlines, and combined versions I'm probably sitting at around 150,000+ words and countless hours of writing and discussion with the wife and siblings helping me edit and brainstorm.






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I was writing about a cyborg, who are trying to bring down a imperial nation called Kazula, with the support of the masses since Kazula are forcing everyone to accept their offer or disappear. However I lost it, but I will review it in sometime. I just lazy as AM. The cyborg is a orphange as his town got takeover in the name of Kazula's "freedom and democracy."

I haven't had a chance to do any serious writing for a year or more now; this last week was the last chance I even had to do any reading.

That said, my last project (I'll have to find it; I write by hand, not computer) was originally going to be a novelette, but turned into more of a series of short stories, half completed.

It is a futuristic tale (about 2200-2500CE) of humanity's economic crisis following a Malthusian catastrophe (food production grows arithmetically while population grows exponentially, resulting in global famine), colonization of another planet, and Earth's reliance on the food production of it's colony (there is virtually unlimited room for agricultural expansion on this new world, and interplanetary space travel has become cheap enough for this to be plausible.)

It is reminiscent of such stories as "Stranger in a Strange Land", and "Starship Troopers" by Robert A. Heinlein, the "Dune" series by Frank Herbert, the "Pern" series by Anne McCaffery (the science fiction and agricultural colony aspects, not the fantasy aspects), and the movie "Soylent Green".

It results in an interplanetary war between the conglomerate that dominates the colony and Earth when on Earth an attempt is made to undertake a massive public works that would damage the conglomerate's virtual monopoly on foodstuffs and interplanetary shipping operations.

I have no set project that I'm working on. I'm lazy and I really don't write that often, and nowadays I only write poetry mostly (although I was recently working on some batshit crazy story about Joseph Stalin). However, I have been in contact with a small publisher and we were negotiating over publishing a small book of my stuff . . . that'll probably occupy my free time from now on.

Btw: Am I the only poet here?

I have 2 possible projects in mind.

Nationalism in modern politics/society.

or

Stalin hero or villain.

Both seem like they would make excellent topics. Considering starting the nationalism one this weekend I have already writing a rough guide in how to break it down and what I want it to include.

I plan to publish using a website like http://www.lulu.com

Science fiction: It's about first physical contact between Earth and a species living in the Alpha Centauri system. It takes place in the early 2100s where humans have made leaps and bounds in medical technology leaving them with the prospects of living indefinitely. The people of Alpha Centuari A-2, the Andorrans, are a people at a technological level equivalent to Earth in the 1880s. They live in symbiosis with a plant species that bonds to protein strands similar to hair. They vary in shape and size: some are black with multi-colored plants (at the equator) and some are a light-tan with black plants (at the poles). They're average height runs in between 2 and 3 meters.

It explores the meaning of humaness in a universe populated with an alien species, the interaction between post-scarcity, socialist humans who are increasingly nonreligious and an alien species with different modes of production (tribal, feudal, and capitalist) who practice various cults of a planet-wide religion. I also want to touch upon colonialism, the workers' movement, and the political dimension of science.

i was writing a novel and then the ideas stopped flowing so i left it, and now i am writing a bunch of short stories in hope of sending them to magazines to publish them. i generally write about alienated youth in surreal situations.

I tend to have many ideas swirling about, but I don't tend to make the time necessary to actually write them

One is based in the Warhammer 40,000 universe and its extensive and (on the whole) well-written and expanded fiction - people who have no knowledge of 40k/are not nerds skip now It follows a chapter of Space Marines who, their homeworld destroyed, resettle on the moon of a Forgeworld. The chapter has always had close connections to the Adeptus Mechanicus (guys who worship machines and tend to be more machine than man, for those who are inadvisably reading this one), but the Master of the chapter becomes further and further involved with them, which forces a fracture in the chapter's loyalty between Mechanicum and the Emperor.
At least, thats what happens - I want to go slighty further than a simple book about that, and look at the effects of the division of leadership on friendships and a hierarchical group, explore the tempations of losing ones frailty in order to attain more strength etc (through the medium of bionic enhancement), and things of that nature. Its a bit deep for a normal 40k book, but the best ones that have been put out go beyond the surface as well.

The second idea initially began life in my head as "Harry Potter for Grown-Ups" and went from there. Magic exists secretly, and the protagonist is exposed to this world when a rogue gang of magic-users attacks him and kills his wife. Swept up by a moderate magician (for want of a better word) who wants to oppose the machinations of a magic Supremacist sect, who he suspects of controlling the gangs, the situation quickly escalates into open magical war on the streets of Britain.
I'm less certain about where I'll be going in this one, although I definitely want the theme of revenge running throughout the book (needed to ground it to something the reader can relate to imo).

The third is more of an idea-in-progress. A fantasy epic, it charts the events of a continent which, many years before, colonised a new world far away from itself. However, the land was overun by the Enemy (because there is always and enemy with a capital E in these books, mores the pity) and the Old World closed the links to the New World, leaving it to its fate. However, the New World survived and beat back the Enemy, and now centuries later means to assault and wipe out the Old World in revenge for leaving them to die and forcing upon them the strict, violent character that they had to assume in order to survive.
I still haven't really worked out what happens, who are the characters etc - I'm more enjoying this as an intellectual exercise, crafting the world in which these events are happening.

Right now I just write so I can get clarity from my ideas and it helps me analyze and critique them. Eventually I will write a book. It will be fictional but it will incorporate major political and philosophical ideas into it.

I'm currently working on something for the past 10 months that has driven me damn near insane through writers block, disorganisation and my habit of deleting everything and starting over. Its a dark comedy about psychiatry, mental illness and astroturfing. Think Orwell with more dick jokes. I havent a word count on the draft because I'm continually trying to put scraps together, in dislocated pieces id say 80-100,000 words, but a lot of that is utter gibberish.

Its all done but the writing as they say

I have a couple of projects on at the moment. I'll write poetry when it takes grip, but I'm writing a Senecan tragedy at the moment. I was inspired to write it studying Hamlet last year and noticing the lack of peasants in this era's literature

I'm currently writing a few short stories, some poetry, as well as thinking of a sequel for my revolutionary story entitled "A total sacrifice" (A story about a student-revolutionary explode himself in the university where he studied and experienced class and financial oppression.)

One is based in the Warhammer 40,000 universe

YES. i was wondering when that would come up.

atm i am writting about the various goings on in my gap year, a combination of travelling stories, adventures with my amigos under the effects of marijuana, leftist political action and the boy-military strageness of a cadet course i did. im hoping that it will somehow appear as a bit of a social commentary when finished.

im also planning and starting a steampunk story that i want to make into a large epic.
its about the conflict between a middle eastern style civilisation and a russian style civilisation as they develop from feudal into capitalist states. im gonna start it out as a world war acroos deserts, seas and badlands and eventualy ill have the war turn into revolution and the establishing of some kind of socialism, but mix in loads of city sized airship ect steampunk wierdness

I like to write science fiction, and I have dabbled in quaint-pompous Garcia Marquesian magic realism. So far I've only done short stories, which I'm constantly editing and re-doing.
My neurotic disposition is both an asset and a hindrance.

I journal on a daily basis. I also write poetry when I think about it, but I haven't been writing as much poetry lately.

I have been switching between various projects lately but have recently taken up writing a new horror story for a new queer teen Ebook publishing site.I am determined to at least finish this draft of the book and submit it.So far I have only 2,474 words written out but I only started it days ago.

Anyone who wants to read it be sure to send me a PM.I would be more than glad for others to give feedback on my plot,characters and style.

I have been working on (what will eventually be) a book.(or so I hope )
Fantasy but grisly like our world as opposed to happy elves or LOTR cliche(I like LOTR but cheap copies are shitty)

Basic setting: More or less medieval, some parts are more modern. Magic is moderate(a single mage can't do much and it only gets really powerful if a whole group is behind a ritual) exaustive (casting tires and may even kill a person) and uncommon (only a number of "gifted" people can use magic in a significant way). No cliched races, I have created my own set of species with unique physical and psychological aspects, including quite a decent amount of flora and fauna.

The region covered by the books is a large peninsula (Europe sized more or less). Mostly feudal monarchies but it has one republic(oligarchic) and a theocracy. Like in the real world the Marxist view of history and society is true.

Adult themes will be abundant but I will try not to drown the setting in it. My aim is to create a realistic world and history, not a series of grisly tragedies.(though one can argue those happen a lot IRL but you probably get what I mean )

Narrative will be told from the point of view of different characters from different sides.

Any questions are welcome either here or by PM

I feel like my narrative isn't suited well for longer works (it's something along the lines of 3rd person, usually not omniscient, and I have very very little dialogue if any) though I'm trying to adapt it as I'd like to write a longer story sometime.

I recently finished a 5000ish word short story about a man getting over his last relationship and his entire (love) life in a day. My friend dubbed it a "reflective" piece, and I'm quite pleased with how it turned out.

I started on another short story, which has about 2000 words currently, in the realm of sci-fi. It's set in a time when time and space have been separated and have both started to fail, so humanity now has brain implants to fix their perception and their space-time locations, but my main character's implants start to fail and he must live out his life on a deserted planet where he is transported as he falls through the fabric of space.

I've also written a small piece on the act of eating, somewhat of a commentary on eating disorders and the thought process of eating food with an eating disorder and BDD.

I also write poems on a fairly regular basis, and have started to write something of a journal.

First person sci-fi story about a man who travels the galaxy in search of who he is really. Has lots of social commentary hidden underneath the content. Is the project I intend to try and get published. Have only begun it recently but it is coming along well formation wise. The content is there is sparing amounts.

Something with androids that wear sexy clothes and there is wasteful destruction and extreme decadence. One of those rare non-porn stories I try to write. Probably won't get published all the same. (No acceptances; 6 rejections and awaiting my 7th. Admittedly I am not sending them out in the kind of bulk I should be, but so lazy...).

For non-fiction, I am writing a book called "The Worker's Manifesto", which is about my political beliefs.
For fiction, I am thinking about creating a story about a Tea Party utopia that fails. I got inspiration to do so after I played "Bioshock: Infinite", although I might tell the story through survivors or something like that.

Working on a dystopia novella about a man who discovers anarchism while living in a Dark Enlightenment future.

Other than that, I've got a barebone idea for a fantasy novel.