Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: busy
  • Music: Beth Orton, "It's Not the Spotlight."

Word count -- BLACKOUT.

Words: 23,601.
Total words: 134,426.
Estimated words remaining: 16,000.
Reason for stopping: finished chapter twenty-nine/book IV. Now is the time of bed.
Music: random shuffle, lots of Counting Crows.
Cats: Alice, unknown; Lilly, sitting next to the chair; Thomas, sitting in the hall.

Let me make it clear that I did not actually write 23,000 words today. I just haven't managed to make a word count post in a little while, which means I had some catching up to do. There; now consider me caught up. And since I have no further travel this month, I should be able to stay caught up. And that's terrifying.

Not counting the time needed to revise and process edits, I should finish this book in between four and ten days; probably somewhere in the seven to eight day range. It's been harder than I expected, because it's...it's like graduating high school. It's not just math class, it's the LAST math class. It's not just lunch, it's the LAST lunch.

It's not just a zombie. It's the LAST zombie.

But I shall persevere. The end is in sight, and on the other side of it is revision and rewriting and also buckling down on Ashes of Honor, which will be so refreshing you don't even know. All I have to do is get there.

All I have to do is rise.
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trektone

June 2 2011, 05:07:05 UTC 6 years ago

BLACKOUT! BLACKOUT! BLACKOUT! BLACKOUT! BLACKOUT! BLACKOUT! BLACKOUT! BLACKOUT! BLACKOUT! BLACKOUT! BLACKOUT! BLACKOUT!

seanan_mcguire

June 2 2011, 18:39:16 UTC 6 years ago

...please don't explode.

herewiss13

June 2 2011, 05:24:24 UTC 6 years ago

It may be your last high school zombie, but no one is saying you can't, someday, have a collegiate zombie or two.

seanan_mcguire

June 2 2011, 18:39:22 UTC 6 years ago

Hee.

msagara

June 2 2011, 05:40:26 UTC 6 years ago

Let me make it clear that I did not actually write 23,000 words today.

Too late. I already had the heart attack.

seanan_mcguire

June 2 2011, 18:39:30 UTC 6 years ago

Whoops.

yellowblackhaze

June 2 2011, 05:47:56 UTC 6 years ago

Yes, I read the 23,000 word count and thought: she really needs to cut back on the caffeine.

seanan_mcguire

June 2 2011, 18:39:40 UTC 6 years ago

If caffeine did that, I would BATHE IN IT.

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seanan_mcguire

June 2 2011, 18:39:47 UTC 6 years ago

Okay!

notalwaysweak

June 2 2011, 06:00:35 UTC 6 years ago

I'm sorry, but my brain just crosswired high school and zombies and now I'm picturing the Glee kids fighting off zombies with slushies. Dear self, some crossovers just should not happen.

queenaeron

June 2 2011, 12:20:34 UTC 6 years ago

I'm so tired this morning that I read that and for a second thought "Hmmm, interesting concept!"

I really need to go to bed early tonight!

kippurbird

6 years ago

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notalwaysweak

6 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

6 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

6 years ago

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Singing Won't Fix This, 1/2

notalwaysweak

6 years ago

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Singing Won't Fix This, 2/2

notalwaysweak

6 years ago

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Re: Singing Won't Fix This, 2/2

ladytinyhelm

6 years ago

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notalwaysweak

6 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

6 years ago

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dornbeast

June 2 2011, 06:27:01 UTC 6 years ago

"But I shall persevere."

YAY!

It takes a good book to keep me from paying attention to other things, like eating dinner. Deadline kept me reading past dessert.

seanan_mcguire

June 2 2011, 18:40:05 UTC 6 years ago

Dude.

kshandra

June 2 2011, 06:34:56 UTC 6 years ago

While speaking matters Newsflesh, will "Countdown" eventually be available anywhere other than your journal? Because at the moment, my post in hugo_recommend is a little ungainly, given all the links....

(If there are any details I should correct in the post, please let me know.)

seanan_mcguire

June 2 2011, 18:40:14 UTC 6 years ago

Look, a bunny.

kshandra

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mlerules

June 2 2011, 07:35:33 UTC 6 years ago

Started FEED this morning. Just finished it. Wow. Thank you for that. It's been a while since I've read anything that compelling and I really do love the experience.

seanan_mcguire

June 2 2011, 18:40:24 UTC 6 years ago

Wow.

Awesome.

mlerules

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seanan_mcguire

June 2 2011, 18:40:33 UTC 6 years ago

Awesome!

smoooom

June 2 2011, 14:31:39 UTC 6 years ago

Finished DEADLINE yesterday and now have to wait another year for BLACKOUT. You are BTW made of awesome. Because DEALINE was awesome, and so much more. I'm getting better at waitng because books are teaching me that I don't have any choice.

seanan_mcguire

June 2 2011, 18:40:42 UTC 6 years ago

That's fabulous.

Torturing the kids for fun and profit (with Deadline deprivation)

l_holcomb

June 2 2011, 16:00:59 UTC 6 years ago

My kids and I have been awaiting Deadline anxiously. SO I sort of ran away from home this week, so I could torture the 2 teenagers by refusing to buy their copies until I get back. Bwahahaha. (They are as usual too broke to buy their own until adequate chores get done, hence the profit in the torture.) I ran off to stay with the oldest kid, who does have money (mine), but also has homework, including an engineering final on Friday. SO I won't let her go to the bookstore til after the final. And she knows I have it on my Nookcolor, but the powercord just disintegrated. And she doesn't know the password to my computer or BN account. But I got to stay up all night and read Deadline first. Bwahahaha! Sometimes, it's good to be Queen, er, Parent, anyway. Also, wow. I generally hate zombie stories as a genre, but Jenny A and Cate (aka she who is being tortured by lack-of-deadline) persuaded me to read Feed, so it's really all Jenny's fault. You can tell her so at the next leprecon. Oh, and now I get to experience the agony of waiting a whole year for Blackout. Unless you need an extra proof reader?

Re: Torturing the kids for fun and profit (with Deadline deprivation)

seanan_mcguire

June 2 2011, 18:40:56 UTC 6 years ago

Alas, I really don't. But yay, torture!

bzarcher

June 2 2011, 16:15:09 UTC 6 years ago Edited:  June 2 2011, 16:17:21 UTC

I finished Deadline this morning. I also hit the enter button too quickly.

I cannot WAIT to see what you've got for us, but I'm still SO WTF at the ending / Coda.

I'm torn between bringing you cookies at Context, or wanting to go "WHAAAAAAAAT?" very, very loudly.

seanan_mcguire

June 2 2011, 18:41:10 UTC 6 years ago

Bring me cookies and then go "what."

bzarcher

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elorie

June 2 2011, 18:09:37 UTC 6 years ago

Go! Go! Go!

We could have a little baccalaureate service, in which you could be voted Author Most Likely to Make Zombie Haters Not Hate Zombies :D

(I personally got an award for "Most Unusual Fashion Sense" at my high school baccalaureate. No lie.)

seanan_mcguire

June 2 2011, 18:41:18 UTC 6 years ago

Hee hee hee.

paradisacorbasi

June 11 2011, 00:37:09 UTC 6 years ago

It just occurred to me to wonder:

Rick's wife Lisa had a reservoir condition.

And he said in FEED she took her own life.

But did she really? Or were The Bad Guys behind it and just made it look that way?

The book is not supposed to randomly whisper questions in my ear while I'm doing other things, Seanan.

Books are supposed to talk to you when you're reading them -- not a week and a half after the fact!

seanan_mcguire

June 13 2011, 15:57:02 UTC 6 years ago

Hee hee hee.