Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: sick
  • Music: Katy Perry, "Mannequin."

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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fayanora

June 10 2011, 07:39:22 UTC 6 years ago

Maybe you can clear something up for me: a friend of mine says the zombies in Newsflesh aren't dead and rotting, but I've read what seems like evidence that they are. So are they alive or are they the walking dead?

seanan_mcguire

June 13 2011, 14:14:02 UTC 6 years ago

They're alive, but they often have severe injuries and secondary infections, including gangrene. So some of them are rotting despite being among the living.

fayanora

June 14 2011, 01:46:13 UTC 6 years ago

Ah, okay. Makes sense.