Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: accomplished
  • Music: Thea Gilmore, "You Tell Me."

Word count -- BLACKOUT.

Words: 3,477.
Total words: 7,921.
Reason for stopping: I have finished chapter two.
Music: random shuffle. A great many Browncoat songs.
Cats: Lilly, bed; Thomas, floor; Alice, sulking under the couch.

Chapter two is done. This book is officially off the ground, and while I have a long way to go before I can see the exit—like, somewhere in the neighborhood of 138,000 words of "a long way to go"—everything has a beginning, and this one is now solid.

Writing this book is going to be a really interesting exercise, because there's so much I can't talk about. Not won't or don't want to, actually can't, as any discussion would constitute spoilers for the first two books in the trilogy. Suffice to say, it's a challenge, and it's going to get harder before it gets easier, but I'm very, very excited to be writing it. I was nowhere near good enough to write this book three years ago.

Let's see if I'm good enough to write it today, shall we?
Tags: blackout, mira grant, word count
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  • 14 comments

trektone

November 23 2010, 04:52:55 UTC 6 years ago

Yay! Yay! Yay! I BELIEVE YOU ARE GOOD ENOUGH TO WRITE IT TODAY!

Um, like, yeah.

seanan_mcguire

November 23 2010, 15:07:39 UTC 6 years ago

Hee.

vixyish

November 23 2010, 04:57:28 UTC 6 years ago

YAY YAY YAY YAY ZOMG YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY I GET TO VISIT THE MASONVERSE AGAIN

seanan_mcguire

November 23 2010, 15:07:47 UTC 6 years ago

Yes!

tollers

November 23 2010, 15:31:12 UTC 6 years ago

Yes! I second this ZOMGYAYBOUNCE! :-)

seanan_mcguire

November 23 2010, 15:31:54 UTC 6 years ago

*giggle*

catnip13

November 23 2010, 06:41:58 UTC 6 years ago

Oh, see, now I'm gonna cry because I was trying to buckle down and work on One Salt Sea for you tonight, but I'm such a pathetic Mira fangirl that I'd rather read this.

seanan_mcguire

November 23 2010, 15:08:28 UTC 6 years ago

...so you know, statements like this may result in removal from one of the pools. Seriously, I need revisions on One Salt Sea, which I've been saying for weeks, while Blackout is a long damn time from due.

catnip13

November 23 2010, 15:32:05 UTC 6 years ago

You are right, my bad. Apologies.

yellowblackhaze

November 23 2010, 22:11:22 UTC 6 years ago

I'm still reading Feed. I'm very sad about the bit I read this morning. Seanan, you made me cry...on the train! Anyway still totally loving the book and very pleased that you're making progress on the end volume of the story.

seanan_mcguire

November 24 2010, 18:14:41 UTC 6 years ago

Yay, and thank you!

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seanan_mcguire

November 24 2010, 18:14:46 UTC 6 years ago

Hee.

yellowblackhaze

November 25 2010, 21:30:44 UTC 6 years ago

This seems like the appropriate place to put this. I finished Feed last night. Totally adored it. It made me laugh, it made me cry! I've done a review which is on my blog and my LJ. Eagerly awaiting Deadline and now I've read the blurb it's going to be a long wait to May.

seanan_mcguire

November 29 2010, 16:36:49 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you. :)