I've got quite a few small writing prjects and some large writing projects in the works at the moment. I thought it'd be good to lay them all out here, so that anyone can see what I'm up to.

[EDIT] This piece of writing is FINISHED
1 Screenplay: 3-4 Page Script
Working Title: Conscience: The Mysterious Confession of Madeline May
I guess it's quite heavily inspired upon a classical style of literature (hence the Benjamin Button-esque title), and it's a script I have to write for my Film class at Uni.
Because of practicality, the cast will only be around 5 or 6 people, but we'll see how it turns out in the end.
It starts out in a prizon, where the notorious theif Madeline May confesses to her crimes. She tells the detective the story of the moments leading to her capture, starting with the moment that her orphaned neice arrives unannounced on her doorstep. The neice is sharp, she quickly picks up on what her aunt is up to, and she tries to sway her towards common sense. Her pleading sneaks into Madeline's head, toying with her judgement, causing her to doubt herself, to fumble, which leads to her arrest.
<SPOILER WARNING> Not like I'll be posting the final product up here, but anyway.
The detective runs background checks, gathers all the evidence, but he can find no trace of Madeline's niece. She never existed.
<END OF SPOILERS>

[EDIT] This piece of writing is FINISHED
2 Short Story: Monthly Writing Competition Entry
The Timekeeper
I've had a lot of doubt with this one, but a couple of times I've woken up in the middle of the night with ideas, or whole paragraphs forming in my mind. Basically, it's a tale of an otherworldly government system gone sour. The Timekeeper has threatened to turn against the Chancellors of the Society and rise as a dictator over the city. He's lied, cheated, murdered, and finally, the High Chancellor climbs the Timekeeper's tower with a warrant for his arrest. No spoilers for this one, but I've already written the intro and conclusion, I just need to fill in the middle. I'll blog post it and submit it to the thread before the end of the month, or else I will have let myself down.

3 Short Story: Drama I'm aiming to get published
Pot, Kettle, Black
A down to earth story of love, lust and hypocricy. I've already written a good two pages of it, and I'm really pleased so far. I've tried to ramp up the quality of my writing in comparison to the stuff I've posted on NG, and I really think I've achieved that, to this point. The story revolves around a teenage girl, and her interactions with her best friend, the boy across the road </cliche>. However, I've got some content in the story that, while not pushed forth all that strongly, could be taken the wrong way. Namely, the teenage girl exposes herself to her friend. I believe that the situation and the way that it is presented isn't really conflicting or outrageous, but when it comes to underage characters, real or fictional, it's best to always be on the safe side.
<SPOILER WARNING>
Later, her friend dies in the lake when they went swimming. They were drunk. She has to explain herself to his parents, who live a quite luxurious lifestyle, and don't spend much time or affection on their only child. She has an argument with his parents, and she reveals that she also, at one point in time, shared an intimate, sexual relationship with their son, and that she is pregnant with their grandchild.
<END SPOILER WARNING> If I can't get this story published, I might post this on NG, but it's quite unlikely.

4 Novel: Also aiming for publication
The Wilder Saga
She is my baby project. This story is an epic adventure, in a fictional world where it is scientifically possible for creatures such as vampires and zombies to exist. I've been working on a logical, a Lovecraftian approach, some might say, to give the impression that these creatures were born, were created, rather than merely spered up from the bowels of hell. I finished chapter 1 a while ago, and I've made a start on chapter 2, but not too much. I've written about 9,000 words all up, about 20 pages in 10pt times new roman on A5. The main character, Alexander Wilder, is forced out of his city as a war breaks out upon his country. He flees the country, and gets a job in a laboratory in the attempt to avoid the war. He falls in love with his boss's daughter, and when his boss is the victim of a freakish accident, he flees with his boss's daughter, and complicated stuff happens, and now he's involved in a war that goes much deeper than he originally thought. He gets separated from his gal, and within the invading country, he is mistaken for a spy and captured. Somehow, he gets out of this tight situation, and then he finds himself in a secret underground city, where zombies, vampires, and other monstrous mutations of the human physique are gathering and preparing to attack the humans above ground. So it's a clash of three armies, and Alexander needs to bring a halt to the warring, to bring peace to his country. Well, that's just a rugged summary, all over the shop.

Also, I started a little music collab with MaestroRage today, I'm really eager to see where that goes.

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