Arting Harder at the Pen Monkey Toiling Pit (Celebrate Them Pages Pt III)

[Farmerbob1]

Knights of Broken Swords is up to 36,212 words, including headers.

I was intending to use this crossover short novel as an experiment in planning (planning being something that I've never really done before for writing), but I've once again discovered how painful it is to write in other people's universes, with other people's characters.

Nothing feels quite right.

That being said, I don't feel like it's terrible either.  I'd be interested in hearing what you folks think about what I've done with Butters and Bob.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10888845/1/Knights-of-Broken-Swords

If you aren't familiar with Pact by Wildbow, it can be found here.  It's web serial urban fantasy, but much darker then the Dresdenverse.

http://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/about/

I'm currently working with some other Pact readers to get Pact added to the list of Fanfiction titles.

[Ulfgeir]

Just finished chapter 12 of my Steampunk novel. At the moment 34 pages and slightly more than 23 000 words long.  I expect it to end up around twice as long, unless I totally scrap some of the planned chapters that are in the synopsis.

The chapter made for a point where the protagonist reached the goal she set out to do earlier. Now, the remaining chapters will be the fallout of that. The chapter also contained as close as a sex-scene that the story would contain "on camera". Other such encounters are alluded to having happened "off camera".  Yes, it had a definitive reason to be there for the plot, and no, the character in question is not happy at all that she didn't get more out of it.

So far my New Year's resolution of writing every day holds.

/Ulfgeir

[Farmerbob1]

Knights of Broken Swords up to Chapter 7 and 43,494 words.

One more chapter to go.  The whole planning thing seems to have worked reasonably well

[Farmerbob1]

'Knights of Broken Swords', a fanfic, is now up to 53,987 words and is complete, though it will probably get a little poking and prodding to clean up issues.

Next Project is 'Set in Stone'  Working on series backstory and story structure for the arc and the first book.

[Farmerbob1]

The backstory for my next project, 'Set In Stone' has been written.  9360 words at this time, but that will almost certainly change a bit as the backstory is massaged.

'Set In Stone' is original fiction, and will be multipart.  It will also be rational fiction in a stonepunk theme.  Humanity on the colony Nirvana had advanced technologies taken away, but not all of its knowledge.  As the simplest possible way to describe it, imagine the Flintstones, but with everything making sense.

The backstory describes how the people of Nirvana got to be where they are.  The in-universe writing will rarely reference elements of the backstory.

[pcpoet]

farmebob1 this sounds interesting.  if I got your premise right it is people living with stone age technology but they have the written knowledge of advance technology but because they don't have the infrastructure they cant take advantage of the knowledge.

[Snowleopard]

Folks just be careful of what you post here.
We don't want to muck JB up.
See the (READ THIS) thread below.
http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,15778.0.html

[Farmerbob1]

Snowleopard,

If I understand correctly, based on the information that you link to, links are acceptable, but direct posting of content is not.  This makes a great deal of sense for fanfiction.  As for original works, practically every written work of fiction these days has its roots in something else.  Any established successful author who sees an idea they like will certainly be capable of taking that idea and running with it in a different direction, adding their own twist and making it their own.

In my case, I do blogfiction.  The concerns about me allowing the public to see my work are somewhat silly, as my work is intended to be seen by the public as it is created, step-by-step.  I have also done background discussions with folks over at Reddit, in the public.

All that being said, in the interest of getting along, I will not discuss specifics of my 'Set In Stone' project here, and ask that folks would instead discuss the project on the site where the work can be read as it is created.

https://setinstonestory.wordpress.com/about-the-series/

[Snowleopard]

Hey, Farmerbob,
  Yeah, links are acceptable.
I think a general content comment like - I'm doing a Steampunk story or I'm doing a Space Opera story
is okay also.

[the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh]

I'm doing a Stonepunk story set in the future

The "punk" suffix is kind of being watered down a bit at this point, I think.

(Note to self; come up with story set in the 1970s and push it as "Punkpunk".)

[Snowleopard]

Heyla Neuro, how are you doing?
  That sounds interesting.

[Farmerbob1]

The "punk" suffix is kind of being watered down a bit at this point, I think.

(Note to self; come up with story set in the 1970s and push it as "Punkpunk".)

I believe 'punk' has grown to simply mean a strange combination of technology levels.  Steampunk has an interesting wiki page where various punk subgenres are discussed.

I had absolutely no clue how to define my next project succinctly, until someone else described it as stonepunk.  Sure enough, the subgenre exists - and it has for a long time, before the word existed.  The Flintstones were stonepunk.  They aren't rational stonepunk though, which is where I'm trying to go

[pcpoet]

I hope you have a pig garbage disposal system.

[Farmerbob1]

'Set In Stone' Chapter 01 is posted at 5170 words