Word count -- THE BRIGHTEST FELL.: seanan

Word count -- THE BRIGHTEST FELL.

Words: 37,836.
Total words: 37,836.
Reason for stopping: There are not words for how very "bedtime" it is right now.
Music: Alice trying to get me to go to bed.
Lilly and Alice: On the bed, and trying to order me to bed, respectively.

So yeah. Welcome back to the word counter for The Brightest Fell, aka, "Toby Daye, book five," aka, "this is the song that never ends." I have officially been working on this book since the dawn of time, largely because it's always been book five, and hence, very far away on the horizon. There was always room for something else to be higher-priority, and knock it to the back of the queue. Guess what, queue? Not anymore!

Anyway, The Brightest Fell is finally moving forward in a smooth, comprehensible, and I strongly suspect sustainable manner, which is weird but sort of awesome. It has been very much informed by all the things I've learned about being a writer from the first four, and by all the things I've learned about Toby herself from the first four, the short stories, and the prequel that you won't be seeing for a while yet. It's making me really happy, and also weirding me out more than a little, because dude, it's becoming a book. A book that currently spends a lot of time flipping me off, but still, a book.

I make progress! I dance the dance of joy. And now I sleep.

batwrangler

June 3 2010, 05:22:44 UTC 7 years ago

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Yay for progress and conscientious kitties who love their momma!

seanan_mcguire

June 3 2010, 12:26:26 UTC 7 years ago

They especially love it when their momma sleeps.

jerusha

June 3 2010, 16:40:19 UTC 7 years ago

Let me guess. Because you're stationary and warm?

June 7 2010, 20:41:38 UTC 7 years ago

Yup!

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June 3 2010, 12:26:57 UTC 7 years ago

Hooray!

You will eventually get to see more of Amandine, but not in An Artificial Night.

ann_totusek

June 3 2010, 05:34:57 UTC 7 years ago

"Yes it goes on and on my friends!"

June 3 2010, 12:27:07 UTC 7 years ago

Tragic, but true.

Simply can't wait...

marziek

June 3 2010, 06:41:30 UTC 7 years ago

to read them ALL!!!

Alice and Lilly are such clever girls...

Hey. Wait. A. Minute.

Toby Daye SHORT STORIES? WHERE? Must. Get. Information.

Please direct this navigationally challenged reader in direction of said short stories when you are next awake and suitably inclined? I can't find them on the Toby Daye portion of your online site.

Re: Simply can't wait...

priscellie

June 3 2010, 12:15:22 UTC 7 years ago

*makes grabbyhands at Toby short stories*

Will these be in multi-author anthologies?

June 3 2010, 12:27:55 UTC 7 years ago

Some will.

June 3 2010, 12:27:46 UTC 7 years ago

As soon as they are available for people to read, they'll be included on the bibliography page. Right now, they're not, so they aren't. That's all. :)

tesserae_

June 3 2010, 13:13:18 UTC 7 years ago

I just bought A Local Habitation (and finished it in about 2 days; seriously, I haven't read *anything* that quickly in years but I couldn't put it down, and fortunately didn't have to) - the news that there are MORE BOOKS after the one coming out in October is excellent news...