So what are you writing now?

[JD]

(Most of my current projects tend toward animation, just 'cause I'm starting to believe that's the only way to stretch a budget to do high-concept family-accessible sci-fi anymore. The days of Trek/Farscape/Stargate are behind us.)

Currently in Outline stage:

-(intended-to-be) animated sci-fi adventure pilot about an amateur racing team.

-sci-fi drama pilot about a band of human refugees who get taken in by aliens after Earth is destroyed.

Currently in writing stage:

-(intended-to-be) animated sci-fi children's movie about a princess who gets kidnapped and befriends an alien slave (moral: Heroes aren't always pretty, monsters aren't always easy to spot).

-second draft of animated sci-fi comedy pilot, about a human student attending an alien high school. Hopefully, it'll actually be funny this time.

Just completed:

-short cyberpunk script about an android contemplating the beginning of her life, and an elderly human contemplating obsolescence. Currently in competition queue.

-pilot spec for sci-fi series about humanity's first FTL flight (and our unwitting bellyflop into a universe we're not remotely ready for). Currently in competition queue.

Holding pattern:

-children's adventure/comedy series involving Mayan mythology. Producer currently seeking funding; if she finds some, I'll get to be a staff writer. My second paid writing gig.

Writing-related:

-character designs for animated sci-fi eco-adventure series. One girl, one boy, one hulking alien warrior/sidekick, possibly one Lovecraftian terror from the Depths.

Once I get the character designs done, I'll have something I can actually pitch.

Most of those sound pretty cool. Good luck. Are these things we'd be seeing on TV or in theaters or are they more webisode kind of things?

 

[David R. George III]

So what are you writing now?

That would be telling....

Isn't that the point of this thread?

That's just what you'd expect me to believe....

 

[Cybersnark]

Are these things we'd be seeing on TV or in theaters or are they more webisode kind of things?

At this point in my career, they're just to get my name known. I do write them as TV series pilots (usually with game/merchandise possibilities for marketing purposes), but most are just to show, and then put back on the shelf until I'm famous enough to actually get stuff made. I usually just do the pilot, and outlines for the first 13 eps.

 

[Greg Cox]

Just fired off the WH13 book to my editor. Yippee!

 

[Jakks]

Congrats Greg.

 

[JRoss]

Well, my last contribution to Legend of the Five Rings will come out next year, but that's already written and just waiting layout and printing.

A Traveller article in January, plus hopefully several more soon.

A Trek novel, currently in outline phase.

 

[Therin of Andor]

A children's picture book, about a rather unusual disability. I found a niche that had yet to be filled and realised I was just the person to do it.

 

[Greg Cox]

Congrats Greg.

Thanks!

 

[BolianAuthor]

I'm always thinking of ideas for potential stories... I try to flesh out even the very smallest of ideas into something larger that I can work with. That being said, I'm working on my non-Trek original-universe sci-fi story called OASIS that I've been playing with for a couple years now. It just needs a bit more fleshing out before it's ready for its close-up.

 

[SicOne]

As secretary/treasurer for my locomotive engineers union, I do the monthly meeting minutes as well as write up time claims so guys can get properly paid.

Compared to Trek and other things you professionals have goin' on, it's a tad dry.

Might save them and market them to insomniacs.

 

[BrotherBenny]

My wife has suggested I put all of my science fiction ideas and half-written ideas and stories in the drawer and concentrate on a crime novel I have been cogitating on for several years.

We'll see if I eventually manage to finish something I start to write.

 

[Defcon]

<cheap plug> As I received the answers for it earlier, I will start to write the next interview for Unreality SF later today.

Some hints: It's Star Trek related and probably the most "incestuous" Unreality interview ever. (Everybody who has ever looked at the about page on USF should now what I mean. )</cheap plug>

 

[Starbreaker]

Just fired off the WH13 book to my editor. Yippee!

I thought you "got fired" for a second.

 

[Bob Greenberger]

Sorry to jump in late here...for the last four weeks, I've been writing up interviews and other copy for a pair of websites. The stuff should be going up in January and i can share then. I continue to write my weekly column for the Fairfield Patch and my semi-monthly column for Westfield Comics.

Other than that, I have proposals floating in the publishing ether and await a verdict before I know what my next major project will be.

 

[Hathaway Brown]

Currently toying with something set aboard the USS Atlantis NX-05.

Not sure whether to set it during or after the Romulan War.

 

[cmdr_forst]

This post.

 

[Chris McCarver]

Writing articles for future issues of the Official Index to the Marvel Universe, and revising a script for the debut issue of StompGirl, a creator-owned comic I plan to debut in February. The first three issues of the Index in which I contributed (#6-#8) are available now, and issue #9 will be available next week.

 

[BrotherBenny]

My New Year's resolution is to concentrate on one writing project at a time.

And so, to begin the new year, I am writing the second story I have planned in the Commonwealth-Nevaii universe.

 

[JRoss]

An article just published in the latest issue of Signs and Portents, the official supplement magazine to Mongoose Publishing's lines. It's for the Traveller RPG.

 

[KRAD]

I have to write a short story for a shared universe thingie, I'm continuing to write the monthly Farscape comic, I have to revise a tie-in novel proposal, and I'm working on an original novel about cops in a city filled with superheroes. I also have several proposals for various projects sitting on various editors' desks.