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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  • 48 comments

natf

June 13 2011, 02:19:14 UTC 6 years ago

I have just finished Deadline and I already cannot wait for Blackout! I am going to have to reread Feed and Deadline until Blackout comes out. I adore the characters, the premise and plot and …

seanan_mcguire

June 13 2011, 14:14:44 UTC 6 years ago

Hee.

Yay.

natf

June 13 2011, 15:47:14 UTC 6 years ago

Sorry, that was a bit fangrrl! I hope you are feeling better…