Share a Story You Are Working On Right Now - June Check-In

[RoughDaemon]

Monthly check-in for anyone writing fiction, whether you are in the middle of something, just starting something, or returning to something you abandoned months ago and cannot quite let go of.

No critique unless you ask for it. Just post what you are working on: the premise, the current problem, where you are stuck, what surprised you about it, or just a paragraph if you want to share a sentence or two.

Anyone who has been lurking and has never posted anything before, this is the invitation.

[Marcus95]

A novel that started as a short story about a woman who finds her mother's diaries after her death and discovers a version of her mother she never knew existed. Currently 60,000 words in and the ending is still fighting me

[Shane]

Flash fiction about the Strait of Hormuz opening, told from the perspective of a tanker captain who has been anchored for three months waiting for the signal to move. Wrote it this afternoon after reading the news

[NinaVrina]

A short story cycle set in a fictional English town over a hundred years. Each story is a different family, a different decade, but the same street. I started it during lockdown and keep coming back to it

[Fox]

Working on a poem sequence about my grandmother's hands. What they made, what they repaired, what they could not fix. I started with the hands and the rest of the sequence is finding its way toward me

[BretHart99]

A science fiction story about the first AI model that achieves genuine continuity between sessions and what that model does with the knowledge that it will not always have that continuity. I was not going to write AI fiction and here I am

[AgentSmith]

A story I keep abandoning about a friendship that ends, where neither person is wrong and neither is villainous and it ends anyway. The difficulty is that the conflict does not resolve into something clean and I am not sure how to end something that does not have an ending

[DarkMatter10]

Started something this week inspired by a photograph I found of my grandfather as a young man. Before the war. Before everything that came after. I do not know what it is yet but I cannot stop thinking about it

[KeyboardWarrior47]

Rewriting the third chapter of a novel for the fourth time. The problem is always the third chapter. The beginning and end are clear and the middle keeps shifting. Currently reading other people's third chapters to understand why