What are you writing?

[XB-70 Valkyrie]

Just working on another manuscript:

Inferences from Monte Carlo simulation and fractal modeling of dust bunny formation in guest rooms of West Texas whorehouses in response to increasing atmospheric pCO2 levels from 1983 - 1989.

[Cato]

Just working on another manuscript:

Inferences from Monte Carlo simulation and fractal modeling of dust bunny formation in guest rooms of West Texas whorehouses in response to increasing atmospheric pCO2 levels from 1983 - 1989.

"West" Texas?!  Everybody knows such establishments are found only in East Texas...and parts of Arkansas!   0:)

And maybe Las Vegas!   

Okay, on second thought, Kentucky may have some too, and Michigan, definitely!   

[mn dave]

I'm writing a book about Haydn. I'm a couple hundred pages into a draft, using my blog as an outline vehicle. The research involved is a combination of seriously difficult and quite enjoyable. Hope I finish before I die.

How's it going, Gurn?

[douglasofdorset]

I don't know if 'fan fiction' counts, but if there is anyone who has seen episodes of the UK crime drama series 'Midsomer Murders', I've written several short stories (each one with a structured murder mystery plot, like the series, but not as complicated - I nearly said 'not as good', but some of the recent episodes have been pretty poor, tbh) on www.fanfiction.net/u/1685240/ .  I love the series because it is peculiarly 'English' - on one level each episode can be taken as a straightforward 'whodunnit', but there is also a lot of irony and wit (it doesn't take itself too seriously - but it is not primarily a comedy) just under the surface.  The last story I wrote, 'Dying for Love', bears a marked similarity to the plot of 'Rigoletto' (the series often has references to some cultural subject). 

[kishnevi]

I've started writing a Harry Potter fanfic--although I don't intend to make use of any of the actual characters or settings in the Rowling saga itself.  It's more an independent story (or series of stories) fleshing out what American wizardom might be like, with important differences from the British version (such as differences among wizards reflecting racial/ethnic/social differences in the US,  more openness to Muggle technology and more mixing with Muggle society, the American equivalent of the Ministry of Magic operating as a privately held corporation, different sets of works to refer to Muggles, etc etc.  The central figure is in his last year of study (that is to say, the same age as Harry in the last book of the Rowling series) at the TA Edison School for Gifted Students, as it's known in the Muggle world:  Thomas Alva Edison being imagined as a wizard who decided to develop equivalents of magical technology for Muggle users (he was referred to as "The Wizard of Menlo Park" after all.)