accomplishedTotal words: 85,743.
Reason for stopping: finished chapter seventeen and book three. Time to work on something else.
Music: random shuffle, with multiple replays of the new Ludo album and The Broken Bride.
Cats: all three are on strange cat errands elsewhere in the house, granting me a rare moment of peace.
As of tonight, the manuscript for Blackout is over 300 pages long, and we've entered Book III, "Foundations," which signals the book coming into the home stretch. I'm already starting to see the parts I'm going to need to tighten up or flesh out in draft two, which is always a good sign. Soon, I'll need to add the "words remaining" line to my word count template for this project. And that is wonderful.
Finishing a series is something totally new, and totally fascinating. I've never had to tie off all the loose ends and cauterize all the wounds like I'm doing right now. There may be other books set in this world (one of them, Rewind, is already in outlines), but there won't be any more about this particular set of characters, or this particular set of circumstances. So a lot of questions have to be answered, and a lot of endings have to be arranged. It's kind of awesome, in a soul-suckingly terrifying sort of a way.
I have loved my time with these people very much. They've taught me amazing things about how to be a writer. But it's time for me to let them finish.
This is where we have to Rise.
April 15 2011, 17:00:51 UTC 6 years ago
I'm going to miss my friends.
April 15 2011, 17:03:08 UTC 6 years ago
April 15 2011, 17:34:29 UTC 6 years ago