What are we all writing right now?

[YmaOHyd]

I have a boarding school scene I need to edit and tweak significantly; the superintendent character came across too cuddly in the first draft. So I need to scary him up a bit. Then I have to figure out how to staple some flashbacks together and do a consistency pass. Then I've got a grudging, slightly insincere apology to write and a sex scene to expand, and a long suicidal-ideation scene to continue to procrastinate on. Once that's (finally) done, I can set this project aside for a bit and let all the glue set in place before I do another consistency pass on it.

 

[YmaOHyd]

I just wrote "penne-trated." Mamma mia!

 

[LunaJupiter]

Started work on The Naked Hiking Club Part 5. Bella is going to have to officially take a sabbatical from the club in order to explore several other relationships (unicorn to a married couple, loving relationship with a woman, casual fling with an old flame) before rejoining her polycule. She'll be learning a lot each time, about love, sex, relationships, andherself, in addition to collecting invaluable "data" for the book she accidentally decided to write. She'll be very busy getting busy.

There will also be an origin story flashback for the club, and at least one new hiking adventure with the usual quintet before Bella flies solo - you can't have a chapter of The Naked Hiking Club without some naked hiking and wilderness orgies!

I expect it to be done some time around 2045 lol

 

[MillieDynamite]

I'm torn between a serial killer novel and my second book in the Written in Blood series. I have three or four stories off to my editor, short stories and novellas, and will have to go through them when they come back.

 

[NuclearFairy]

My catboy story is up, and I'm writing about orcs.

 

[Writer61]

My catboy story is up, and I'm writing about orcs.

I read that as orcas.

 

[old_prof]

I read that as orcas.

No yachts are being threatened.

 

[NuclearFairy]

No yachts are being threatened.

Nope, just orcish virginity. Those dashing half-elves ya know.

 

[StillStunned]

I was recently rereading Robert Browning's "Fra Lippo Lippi", and I must have had dramatic monologues on my mind. Because a scene sprang into my mind today of a prisoner in his cell, telling his story to his confessor. Set in Renaissance Europe - mostly Italy, I think - it will be a tale of adventure, betrayal and bloody murder. All told with a cheerful lack of regret.

It's the kind of thing that could take years. So far I have it in a somewhat formal, archaic style (still inspired by Browning's poem), but perhaps a more gritty, contemporary tone would work best. But it will be a long monologue, just the narrator and a silent audience.

 

[CiaoSteve]

Trying to finish off a first-time lesbian romance (was meant to be for lasy year's Valentine's contest). One chapter to go, the morning after. Then have a other to start around an AI dating app which keeps bringing old and young together until finally they give in and go out on a Valentine's date.

 

[DEFCOM5]

Just finished a short (2K words) romance story with no sex in it!

It is under beta review and then will go through the publishing process

It is my first romance story and it is the first thing I wrote in over a month!

 

[KittyOfSteele]

Outlined this baby... Barely. It's one of those plantsing stories where I have the idea for the characters, but not the actual events. I got at least two scenes to begin win.

Going to write number 344/365 now.

 

[Writer61]

With episode 7 of Adam At Large in final draft, I have been working on episode 8, particularly trying to address some plotholes that I have spotted. However, I have decided to combine the two because each is a bit shorter than I would like, and they have a similar theme.

I have also decided to reverse the order of the final two stories, as what is now ep8 is partially written.

If the plan survives* these will be the last three episodes in this series, which I intend to release as a batch.

*"No plan survives contact with the enemy", Helmuth, Graf von Moltke, the Elder.

 

[SimonSex]

I am about to wrap up my first series with a fifth and final installation before moving on to something else.
I would welcome more comments and criticism! Thanks!

https://www.literotica.com/authors/SimonSex/works/stories

 

[MillieDynamite]

Coffee break, then back to one of the two I'm working on...same too as yisterdee.

 

[StillStunned]

I was recently rereading Robert Browning's "Fra Lippo Lippi", and I must have had dramatic monologues on my mind. Because a scene sprang into my mind today of a prisoner in his cell, telling his story to his confessor. Set in Renaissance Europe - mostly Italy, I think - it will be a tale of adventure, betrayal and bloody murder. All told with a cheerful lack of regret.

It's the kind of thing that could take years. So far I have it in a somewhat formal, archaic style (still inspired by Browning's poem), but perhaps a more gritty, contemporary tone would work best. But it will be a long monologue, just the narrator and a silent audience.

So far I'm enjoying where this is going. My antihero has completed his studies and sets out for Lubeck, where a job is lined up for him:

Well, I never made it that far. Was it to be expected? I was young, I was on top of the world, and I was free from all constraints. My parents were far away, my Masters had sent me out into the world, and my new employer might as well have been in Heaven or Hell.

Have you ever felt such freedom, Priest? No, I see from your face that you have not. You have led a life of rules and obedience, of confinement and safety. You cannot begin to conceive of the exhilaration. The excitement at the possibilities, and the trepidation too – it is like being tossed overboard at sea, with nothing to support you but your own efforts.

I suppose that some of my behaviour could be ascribed to that trepidation. A sense of panic, perhaps, or at least a near manic urge for action, to keep myself afloat. I threw my energy around like a castaway flailing his limbs, searching for something to grasp, to hold on to, or else to fight the ocean’s vastness with nothing but his bare hands.

Understand, I say this is not as an excuse. Rather, with my death approaching soon at the hands of your lord, by telling you this I can perhaps myself better understand my deeds. Not to seek forgiveness – I am beyond that, and beyond caring for it. But much has been said and written about mee, and this is my last chance to tell my side.

 

[SerenaSteeleMonroe]

I finished a story the other day, put it up yesterday, and it goes live tomorrow. It's called The BLACKENING of DANNA. And, before anyone asks, yes, it's interracial, of course.

 

[SerenaSteeleMonroe]

It went live four hours ago, The BLACKENING of DANNA.

 

[YmaOHyd]

I have a boarding school scene I need to edit and tweak significantly; the superintendent character came across too cuddly in the first draft. So I need to scary him up a bit. Then I have to figure out how to staple some flashbacks together and do a consistency pass. Then I've got a grudging, slightly insincere apology to write and a sex scene to expand, and a long suicidal-ideation scene to continue to procrastinate on. Once that's (finally) done, I can set this project aside for a bit and let all the glue set in place before I do another consistency pass on it.

Flashbacks stapled, boarding school scene improved, sex scene expanded, plus an additional action scene added. Halfway through the negative stuff. Once that's done, I have the insincere apology to write. Then I'm gonna sit on it until I figure out how to divide this up, because right now I expect to have a single 30,000 word chapter and a 12,000 word chapter, and I don't love that.

 

[NuclearFairy]

I'm writing about an orcs first day on the job as an orc Lord, first thing on the list, figure out who needs to die.

 

[Writer61]

That might be orcward.

 

[Z_TheWriter]

That might be orcward.

Plot (or world) bunny: A world in which the location of the ever rampaging horde of magically frenzied orcs is so important to keep track of that "orcward" is a valid direction to give.

 

[NaughteeDragon]

I started writing the piece I asked about in my Which POV thread. Cranked out 600 words at lunch. Starting to get a feel for Evelyn as a character.

 

[Writer61]

I'm writing about an orcs first day on the job as an orc Lord, first thing on the list, figure out who needs to die.

In my first week at a new job, I had to tell six people whether they would be made redundant. As it happened, five were safe, so my colleague and I left the one who wasn't until last.

By the time we got to her, we were quivering wrecks in anticipation of her reaction. When we delivered the message, the woman reacted with delight because, for personal reasons, she was planning to leave the area and now had a redundancy cheque to ease her way.

35 years later, I still shudder at the trauma.

 

[old_prof]

I'm starting in on a New Year's Eve party story with all the characters from my original series, plus one that I added in the first sequel to the series and one mostly new character (mentioned but has never made an appearance to date). Given their proclivity towards orgies with only 3-6 of them together at a time, 14 of them will be fun.