Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: accomplished
  • Music: Prince, "Cinnamon Girl."

Word count -- BLACKOUT.

Words: 7,010.
Total words: 50,805.
Reason for stopping: finished chapter eleven. I need to pause.
Music: random shuffle, lots of angry Goth rock.
Cats: Alice, sitting in the hall; Lilly, sleeping in my underwear drawer; Thomas, flat on the bed, cuddling his squid.

Okay, that was...a lull, brought on by needing to hammer my way through the editorial revisions of One Salt Sea. But I'm back on track now, and have broken both 50,000 words and 175 pages. Also, the phrase "zombie bear" is not inaccurate. I'm just saying. And I got to give another example of a weird post-zombie legal decision. It's sad that the legal system of this world fascinates me the way that it does, but imagine being on the Supreme Court when the first of these cases started showing up!

I have the upcoming weekend totally free, followed by a weekend full of book release party chaos. I believe that I can be calm about not doing any work next weekend if I can hit 70,000 words by the end of this weekend. So that's my totally reasonable, not-insane-at-all goal. 70,000 words by the end of the weekend.

There is something wrong with the way my brain is wired, I swear.
Tags: blackout, mira grant, word count, zombies
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beccastareyes

March 9 2011, 02:45:29 UTC 6 years ago

I just picture some appointed-pre-Rising Supreme Court judge going 'I spent decades arguing constitutional law, got to the highest court in the land, and now I have to listen to someone argue about whether we can allow blood tests for the zombie plague at polling stations'.

azurelunatic

March 9 2011, 03:06:40 UTC 6 years ago

I imagine that there is now a Constitutional amendment about prioritizing the survival of humanity as a whole.

ashabardon

6 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

6 years ago

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sheistheweather

March 9 2011, 02:59:55 UTC 6 years ago

I don't think it's sad that the legalities of the Newsflesh world fascinate you. It fascinates many of us as well. :)

yellowblackhaze

March 9 2011, 03:15:43 UTC 6 years ago

If you're personally interested in the legal complexities of the post-zombie world you've created I think it tends to make that world more real for the readers.

dornbeast

March 9 2011, 06:57:00 UTC 6 years ago

At the very least, I can state that it does so for one reader. The rest of the readership will have to decide for themselves

keristor

March 9 2011, 09:57:53 UTC 6 years ago

This is one of the things I like about Seanan's writing, she thinks about this stuff for all of her stories, so they do hang together and 'work'.

seanan_mcguire

March 9 2011, 16:36:59 UTC 6 years ago

True!

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seanan_mcguire

March 9 2011, 16:37:20 UTC 6 years ago

Cute but horrible!

paradisacorbasi

March 9 2011, 03:44:21 UTC 6 years ago

Just so you know...

doctor said it wasn't pneumonia. He thinks it's allergies.

But I'm becoming convinced that my body is trying to spontaneously convert.

seanan_mcguire

March 9 2011, 16:37:49 UTC 6 years ago

Um...

...yay?

Feel better.

paradisacorbasi

6 years ago

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glam_k

March 9 2011, 04:14:04 UTC 6 years ago

It isn't every day that you can string together the words "cuddling his squid" and thrust them into a sentence, you know. (Well, outside of Dr. Seuss. And that's a whole 'nother kettle of red fish, blue fish...)

Teh kittehs: there's nothing they don't make better. :D

seanan_mcguire

March 9 2011, 16:38:47 UTC 6 years ago

So true.

saoba

March 9 2011, 04:57:48 UTC 6 years ago

Thomas and The Squid Cuddlers should be the name of a band.

seanan_mcguire

March 9 2011, 16:39:25 UTC 6 years ago

They play aqua punk.

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seanan_mcguire

March 9 2011, 16:48:06 UTC 6 years ago

I Am Legend is best viewed as the aftermath of a successful act of bioterrorism.

Stupid Amazon stuff

keristor

March 9 2011, 09:55:13 UTC 6 years ago

OK, this confused me. Or rather Amazon UK did. Because on my orders page is an order for "Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy" due to be delivered on 6 June 2011, and so when I saw your post I was thinking "that will be some very fast writing!"

When I click the link on that Amazon order, it actually takes me to the page for "Deadline". So I really hope that they will actually be sending me that in June.

I swear Amazon's website organisation is getting worse every time I look at it, and soon tey are going to fail completely...

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pola_bear

March 9 2011, 11:00:22 UTC 6 years ago

They swapped the names, but the preorder page for the second book as Blackout was already up when this happened, so that's probably where the problem emerged. I plan to buy Deadline in a real bookshop, because I can and it supports the idea of these books being published in the UK more than Amazon (as the Newsflesh books are actually being published over here).

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seanan_mcguire

6 years ago

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qnofhrt

March 9 2011, 16:13:44 UTC 6 years ago

Current music: Prince, "Cinnamon Girl."

As in Prince singing Neil Young??

seanan_mcguire

March 9 2011, 16:48:47 UTC 6 years ago

I s'pose. Is that a Neil Young song?

qnofhrt

6 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

6 years ago

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jslinder

March 9 2011, 16:23:21 UTC 6 years ago

Speaking of Amazon, One Salt Sea is up for Pre-Order (dead tree edition only so far)..

seanan_mcguire

March 9 2011, 16:49:05 UTC 6 years ago

I saw that. Cheese and crackers.

ladytinyhelm

March 9 2011, 19:47:10 UTC 6 years ago

Just finished rereading Feed today (amazing as ever). My levels of excitement for this series are reaching epic squirmy levels. :D

seanan_mcguire

March 9 2011, 20:15:27 UTC 6 years ago

Hee. Yay.