Terry L Probert: Stories in progress

Terry L Probert: Stories in progress: It is halfway through May already and I need to take stock of the things I am working on at the moment. Like a lot of writers if I'm hav...

Stories in progress

It is halfway through May already and I need to take stock of the things I am working on at the moment. Like a lot of writers if I'm having trouble getting past a problem with one story, I begin writing another. It may start with the question, why am I blocked and then develop into another short story or a poem. Therefore my hard drive is full of unfinished work. I have made a list below as a reminder to me to  'ged-on-wid-it'.

Take a look at these and feel free to crack the whip on me to finish the ones you like the sound of. Anything I have given a percentage to is in second draft or more.

Novels:

• Toby Farrier:
• Manuscript completed and requires editing.
• Find a mainstream publisher
• Les Gillespie's Gold (2nd book in Kundela series)
• 30% written need to get past the couples engagement dilemma
• get Joe and Laura to England and into conflict.
• Rhino Horne
• Story concept complete
• Chapter outlines 20% complete
• Cast of characters 20% complete
• Character Profiles to do
• Wurrugi the Warrior Without Ears:
• Requires complete rewrite and dividing into a series of childrens' stories.

Memoirs:

• Letters to my Children
• Four chapters drafted
• Set out book segments
• Select photos to begin each story/chapter

Anthology of Short Stories and Poems:

This will be a book to show the development of my story ideas and a project to support my novel writing. I work on improving these stories whenever my mind is away from the novel I am writing.

• The canoe:
• 90 % complete
• Banib the Bunyip: (Runner up in the 2013 City of Melton Short Story Competition)
• Rewrite to tighten it for the reader.
• Honey Hush:
• 50% complete
• Feral Utes and Borrowed Boots:
• 90% complete, requires a final edit.
• Al Zheimer's Christmas:
• Good little story for the memoirs, but requires more editing.
• Heading Home:
• 60% Needs a rewrite.
• The American
• First draft of a Kundela themed short story.
• Zombies
• Almost ready for printing, needs a final edit.
• Stinky Jones
• In first draft form. Children's story
• How Zach made a difference
• Almost ready for printing, needs a final edit.

Anthology:

• Stories of Australia's Agricultural Sales and Service People.
• Begin collecting photos to support info on the AgList Blog.
• More stories required, may have to do personal interviews to get enough data.

Self Help Books:

• So You Want to Sell Tractors
• Training manual needs converting into a readable format directed at sales people.
• Business Planning Workbook
• Rewrite and formatting required.