Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: accomplished
  • Music: Sara Bareilles, "Basket Case."

Word count -- BLACKOUT.

Words: 10,262.
Total 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?
Tags: blackout, mira grant, word count, zombies
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  • 15 comments

bigherman

February 15 2011, 06:16:34 UTC 6 years ago

One Salt Sea... droool... esssup! Hmm, yes, hmm, I can't wait! Late Eclipses was amazing and horribly tantalizing (and I mean that in the Greek-est sense) and sometimes I'm not sure if reading your latest is the best idea because it's so hard to wait for the next one and it just seems to get harder every time. Or something like that.

seanan_mcguire

February 15 2011, 15:34:30 UTC 6 years ago

That means I'm doing my job right!

tikiera

February 15 2011, 16:34:06 UTC 6 years ago

This!

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?

seanan_mcguire

February 15 2011, 16:44:00 UTC 6 years ago

Just remember to keep buying them opening week, lest my sales decline and I become a sad, sad bunny.

tikiera

February 15 2011, 16:57:26 UTC 6 years ago

It's the only time I actually go the bookstore these days. :)

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. :)

micheinnz

February 19 2011, 09:58:10 UTC 6 years ago

Some of us have to rely on the kindness of friends to mail us books from the USA, thanks to bookshops here not selling them (ALTHOUGH MARBECKS HAVE PICKED UP FEED, WHICH IS WONDERFUL), so we wait.

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... ")