Progress Report Week 1 June 2012

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Current Projects

CrimeNovel1 is progressing slowly. Even though the outline is written, I am occasionally having trouble with scene transitions.
RomanceNovel1 is in the last part of the last chapter. For some reason, I find this part of a story, regardless of length, the hardest to get down. Still plodding forward, but I’m struggling to get more than 300-400 words out in a day.
DarkFantasy1A is being entirely rewritten to sharpen point of view so that readers don’t become confused by the multiple threads that run through it. When I started it, I was playing with what it would be like if readers saw how several stories intersected, but this led to too many characters, frustration at not seeing how their stories ended, and confusion over why they had held focus for very short segments of the book. This will take me a little time.

Backburner

SciFiNovel1: I had an idea that needed a universe, and this novel needed another plot thread, so some developmental plot work was done. Progress at last! It is not, by the way, my first science fiction novel, just the first one I’ve mentioned here.
SciFiNovel2: The new idea fitted this plot also, and helped move it along.
Anthology25: The new idea will also have a place in this anthology of creative essays and excerpts. Anthology25 will include CreativeEssay1 on beserkers, CreativeEssay2 on insects, and CreativeEssays3-4 on spiders. It will also include excerpts from related novels and works in progress. This will become the fifth anthology in The Simpson Anthologies series. I am currently working on the final story in Anthology4.
NOTE: Anthologies are labelled in the order ideas come in for anthology titles. They are released in the order they are filled by stories. And I just re-labelled a whole bunch Annuals on my list so I’ll need to reassign twenty numbers. Annuals were originally intended to be anthologies, but the first two just aren't working out that way. It's hard to describe what they're doing, but anthology isn't quite it.

New Arrivals

SciFiNovel3: Speculative with a blend of fantasy. Title and vague idea only.
CreativeEssay2: Speculative faction about oversize insects and an alternate path for insect evolution.
CreativeEssay3: Speculative faction about spiders and their place in a paranormal world.
CreativeEssay4: Speculative faction about spiders and their place in an alternate world.
Location: Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

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