Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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Word count -- BLACKOUT.

Words: 4,226.
Total words: 146,291.
Estimated words remaining: 4,000.
Reason for stopping: I am sick even unto death.
Music: really, really LOUD rock and roll.
Cats: Alice, flat on the lower tier of the cat tree; Lilly, on the windowsill; Thomas, on the top level of the cat tree.

As expected, I did not finish the book today. Also as expected, the book is going to run a little over my first draft estimate, putting us, oh, probably closer to 155,000 than 150,000 words. That's fine. Soon, I will finish this draft, process my pending edits, and ship the whole messy thing off to the patient Machete Squad for hacking into bits.

I am truly and genuinely almost done with my first series as Mira Grant. I am getting ready to write "THE END" on this huge, sprawling, amazing story. I am delighted. I am terrified.

I am also sick even unto death, so I'm going to go sleep now.
Tags: blackout, illness, mira grant, word count, writing
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Write, Seanan, Write!

I just finished Deadline...and you are a cruel, cruel woman to leave it THERE and not have Blackout ready for me to read yet!

Even if Blackout were done and edited, you wouldn't be able to read it until next year! This way, no one else can read it either.