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.
Tags: blackout, mira grant, word count
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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!