accomplishedTotal words: 43,795.
Reason for stopping: finished chapter nine, and it is so time for bed.
Music: random shuffle, lots of country music. THE MUSIC OF PAIN.
Cats: Alice, a large blue lump on the floor; Lilly, unknown; Thomas, a long blue line on the bed.
So four days ago I went "yay, I'm over 100 pages, yippee for me." Today, I am going "I am now over 150 pages, dude, what the fuck." (153 pages, to be precise.) I have finally hit the point where the book basically writes itself, and I have to type as fast as I can, just to catch up. This is the stage where I make the most fascinating word-substitution typos, the ones my spell check can't catch but my early readers thankfully can. (Tonight's gems include "assistance" for "assistants," and "dune" for "done.") This will last another 20,000 words or so, before I reach the bottom of the hill and have to start forcibly dragging myself upward again. And I can live with that.
In "my brain is an ecosystem" news, I got my editorial letter for One Salt Sea today. I'd been expecting it sometime this month, which is part of why I've been writing with such frantic focus, since Blackout will now need to take a backseat to revisions on the fifth Toby book, at least for a few weeks. But there's no way I'm going to let work stop completely. I couldn't, even if I wanted to; the book has too much momentum, and it's going to drag me along with it, whether I want to go or not.
I'm so amazed that we're finally here. I never dreamed we'd make it this far.
When will you rise?
February 15 2011, 06:16:34 UTC 6 years ago
February 15 2011, 15:34:30 UTC 6 years ago
February 15 2011, 16:34:06 UTC 6 years ago
Part of me wishes I had the willpower to wait until a couple were out, to decrease this.
Then I think, wow, can I even imagine waiting THAT long?
February 15 2011, 16:44:00 UTC 6 years ago
February 15 2011, 16:57:26 UTC 6 years ago
No, I understand fully the need to buy when the book is released... the one time I got ahold of a copy early, I went out and bought one on the correct day also, 'cause I didn't know of the early sale counted.
That's why the willpower is weak. I never figured out how one refrained from reading a book that one wants to read, when it is in their possession. I have lost so much sleep because I never learned this. :)
February 19 2011, 09:58:10 UTC 6 years ago
And no, I can't afford to buy from Amazon. I just recently got a budget that allows for book purchases at all, let alone ones that include international shipping.
(Yes, this is my way of saying "Yes, you have it easy. I live at the arse end of the South Pacific. You have SO many books there, SO cheap... ")
February 15 2011, 06:53:35 UTC 6 years ago
February 15 2011, 07:11:21 UTC 6 years ago Edited: February 15 2011, 07:12:48 UTC
Same here. However, I can listen to music in *other* languages while writing, even when I know what the words mean or know the language well enough to understand them. Weird brain facts FTW.
Edited for clarity.
February 15 2011, 15:34:52 UTC 6 years ago
February 15 2011, 13:20:56 UTC 6 years ago
Soon, I hope.
February 15 2011, 15:34:59 UTC 6 years ago
February 15 2011, 14:32:45 UTC 6 years ago
W00T!!!
(just how does one go about volunteering to be a beta reader?)
February 15 2011, 15:35:56 UTC 6 years ago
(One doesn't. I rarely mention them, because it's a completely closed group of people, and I don't enjoy telling thirty people "no, I'm sorry, but no.")
February 15 2011, 16:27:20 UTC 6 years ago
Will it be early May, so I can give it myself for a birthday present?
February 15 2011, 16:43:33 UTC 6 years ago