Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: ecstatic
  • Music: We're About 9, 'Writing Again.'

Word count -- Discount Armageddon.

Current stats:

Words: 3,130.
Total words: 8,980
Reason for stopping: chapter three is in the can!
Music: weird covers and We're About 9, alternating.
Lilly: standing guard by my chair.

Everybody dance now! No, seriously. With chapter three in the can, I'm getting a firm handle on my world, my situation, and best of all, my main character. (Especially when writing a first book with a new POV person, I can take a few chapters to really figure out what I'm doing. Which is what the second draft is for, obviously.)

Can I just note that this book is so damn fun to write? It should probably be criminal for me to spend this much time giggling to myself, and it's not just because of the mice. Also, it's a great excuse to go mucking happily around in cryptid biology. I am a very happy blonde right now.

I will now go eat tuna fish, watch television, and relax, all bathed in righteousness and glory.
Tags: discount armageddon, incryptid, word count
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  • 4 comments

yolandasfetsos

September 10 2008, 07:15:14 UTC 8 years ago

Sounds great! Oh, and I had tuna for lunch today too. ;)

seanan_mcguire

September 10 2008, 12:33:55 UTC 8 years ago

I am an enormous fan of the tuna sandwich. Made with sweet relish, fat-free sour cream, and fresh crushed garlic.

bosswriter

September 10 2008, 16:15:56 UTC 8 years ago

I felt that way about my current novel oh so long ago, but now am really stuck on the third act. I need to make a chart of where my main characters are and flow it to the ending that I know I want and plot what each has to do to get there.

Once I do that, I think I can get the prose written and then begin the fun tasks of revision - yay.

seanan_mcguire

September 15 2008, 14:10:11 UTC 8 years ago

I think it's normal to start hating a book once you're half- to two-thirds of the way through. Then you start to love it again when you have enough momentum to roll the rest of the way down the big ol' hill.