Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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Word count -- Lycanthropy.

Here go:

Words: 6,980
Total words: 70,060
Reason for stopping: finished THE ENTIRE BOOK. YES, IT'S DONE.
Music: largely, musical soundtracks.
Lilly: conked out on my bed.

First draft stats:

Pages: 246
Chapters: twenty-eight
Started: July 21, 2005
Finished: August 11, 2008

I think this may be the longest shortest first draft I've ever written -- the book is less than half the length of Newsflesh, yet took over a year longer to finish. I blame this on the tragic fact that Lycanthropy and Other Personal Issues kept getting relegated to the literary status of 'other woman' -- the book I really loved, yet turned to only after I'd finished my obligations to more 'important' commitments. If I were Clady, I would have long since tracked me down and kicked me in the teeth, that's all I'm saying here.

The bulk of the work on this book was done in the past eight months.

I still intend to go back and flesh out some of the earlier sequences a bit more thoroughly now that I know what my overall pacing looks like; because of that, and a few continuity adjustments, I'm planning to declare a 'draft 1.5' and add to the text, before cutting ten percent with draft two. It makes sense if you're me (and is actually how I managed Newsflesh, which turned out to have two missing chapters). But it's done. It's finally done. And I think it's a better book for having taken the time, because I've learned so much in the past few years.

It's done. Tonight, I will sleep the sleep of the just and the joyous.

It's done.
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  • 34 comments
Congrats on the doneness!
Thank you!
Way to go, Seanan!
*dances around crazy*
Whoo hoo! Dino dance!
VELOCIRAPTURE TIME!

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Thank you!
Congratulations!
So fab. :)
::big hugs:: Congratulations!
Thanks, honey! (Next up, the post-book depression...)

scholarinexile

8 years ago

seanan_mcguire

8 years ago

scholarinexile

8 years ago

YAY!!!!
Wheee!
Congrats!!
Thank you!
Woohoo!!!
*beam*
Woot!!
Heeeeeeeee.
Woo! Finishing books is always good!
Absolutely. Especially when it's finishing books that have been in process forever.
Yay! Congrats!!!
Thank you!
"the longest shortest first draft"

It took me about three minutes to work out what the hell you meant there... grin.
It's a tongue-twister of a statement, but I stand by it.

talithakalago

8 years ago

seanan_mcguire

8 years ago

Congrats on getting the book done! Yay. :)
Thank you! And now...the hard part. Oy.
Congratulations, Seanan! Well done. (and good luck with edits & revisions)

Merry =^..^=
Thank you!

I've started early chapter revisions -- one advantage to a draft taking this long: the first few chapters are already distant enough to rework -- and it's going brilliantly well so far. Happiness.