Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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Word count -- ASHES OF HONOR.

Words: 12,669.
Total words: 38,337.
Reason for stopping: I have finished chapter ten. Now is the time of sleeping.
Music: mostly Pink, Dar Williams, and Ludo. Still.
The cats: Alice, eating kibble one piece at a time, like a weird raccoon. Others, unknown.

Before you freak out, no, I didn't write 12k in one night. I just missed a few word count updates, and that means I've recorded all the progress between now and then. On the other hand, the book is over a hundred pages long now, and it looks like I may break 50k by the end of next week. So you can get excited about that, if you want.

Ashes of Honor is starting to find its shape, beyond the necessary "and the plot requires that these seventeen guns be placed on their respective mantles" which always happens in the first few chapters (and gets deleted before the book ever sees a shelf). Characters are behaving in ways that make sense for them, if not for anyone saner, and things are going roughly like I expect them to go.

It's weird not to be thinking in terms of the Undersea, which was a wonderful, incredibly exciting playground for me, but which doesn't fit naturally into every story I tell. I do get to play more with April O'Leary in this book, which makes me happy; I love April. I may also get to introduce January's wife, Li, who was absent from A Local Habitation for very good reasons, but will be important later. It's exciting! I'm excited.

And now I, and my excitement, will go to bed. Later, all.
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...did you tell us (in the book) January had a wife, and I missed it or forgot it?

trialia

September 8 2011, 11:57:20 UTC 5 years ago Edited:  September 8 2011, 11:57:36 UTC

Nope, I don't remember it in there either (and I've read the lot five times each).
Nope. Li was not mentioned, both for reasons of time, and reasons of Jan didn't trust Toby until it was too late.
Sounds way great
I think I need another coffee. I read the subject as *Ashes of Horror*... errrr...
...er...
OMG excited!

(Which probably has something to do with the fact that I got nothing accomplished yesterday because BUSY! READING! which was ALL YOUR FAULT!)
me too. cover to cover.
Yay!
"Mira Grant/Seanan McGuire eats NaNoWriMo for breakfast. And is still hungry."

(*beth has a moment of disorientation about "January's wife," since Benjamin January, of Hambly's historical mysteries, is twice-married and to people with rather different names*)
Nom.
I'm excited, too! Yay!

Wish me luck if you have a spare second. Saturday, I'm taking my first writing class since college and I'm terrified. But, hey, while the spousebeast is away for Fantasy Football Draft Weekend and playing extreme croquet (yes, really. It involves fireworks and tequila shots) and just generally behaving like his inner 15 year old, I might as well do something other than drink chardonnay and eat cupcakes.

(Although there will be some of that, too)
Dude, luck!

You will be amazing.
Thank you! It went so well. I actually read and was stopped on the way out about half a dozen times by people telling me I should publish and asking if I had a book or a blog.

I'd forgotten what "writer's high" felt like. I came home and wrote and edited and wrote some more and....it was amazing.

Thank you so much. Your kind words helped me walk into that room. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Oh, that's amazing! I am so glad it went well. I had total faith that it would, but still. :) I'm so happy for you.

You are very welcome, and thank you, for being you, and being brave.
"It's weird not to be thinking in terms of the Undersea, which was a wonderful, incredibly exciting playground for me," leads me to rather inevitably to thinking of this: ♫ "Under the sea/Under the sea/Darling it's better/Down where it's wetter/Take it from me" ♬

Sorry :)
No, you're not.
(Friggin' no editing unless I pay...)

Powells:
Qty Store
7 Beaverton (this will be 6 after I get off of work ;) )

They only had 2 copies of Late Eclipses when it came out; someone's clued in that you are popular author and they should have copies on hand for your rabid followers fans.
i have one salt sea in my hand. i am about to put the computer down and crack it open while i eat a coffee cake muffin. so excited.
Oh, yay. :)
There was a wail of woe when newroticgirl opened up One Salt Sea and saw that Ashes of Honor is due out next year.

I just sighed forlornly. (Also started OSS last night, and in about 40 minutes of reading I'm up to page 90 something. I expect I'll finish devouring</i> reading it tonight.
That's what InCryptid is for! To take the sting off.
I finished it off Saturday morning, while I'll read InCryptid, I still want moar Toby now. ;)

I suddenly thought of the Honor Harrington book of the same name, which has been out for quite a while now. That's what I thought you were referring to.
There is no Honor Harrington book of the same name. Ashes of Victory and War of Honor, yes, Ashes of Honor, no.