Word count -- ASHES OF HONOR.: seanan

Word count -- ASHES OF HONOR.

Words: 17,558.
Total words: 71,958.
Reason for stopping: chapter seventeen is done, and I need to pack for Seattle.
Music: mostly Great Big Sea and random country.
The cats: Alice, sneering at the contents of her food dish; others, unknown.

So, um. That happened.

We've hit the all-important middle section of the book, where I throw things at the wall just as fast as I possibly can, and then go back to sculpt and scrub them until they resemble something that's actually shaped like the story I want to tell. It's a lot of "three steps forward, two steps back," but every step takes me a little closer to my eventual victory over the troublesome patches in the text. It's awesome.

Also, now that I'm over 70,000 words, I can actually start booking one night a week to work on Midnight Blue-Light Special, the sequel to Discount Armageddon, and a book I've been hugely looking forward to writing. So there's that. I love Toby, and I love InCryptid, and a good mix of them turns out to be an excellent way of keeping myself sane.

It's harder to write these posts than it used to be, because so many people are wonderfully, miraculously invested in this series, and I don't want to give more spoilers than I absolutely have to. But I'm super-happy with how Ashes of Honor is coming together, and I think you will be, too.

Yay.

mariadkins

September 23 2011, 04:32:29 UTC 5 years ago

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YAY

seanan_mcguire

September 23 2011, 14:24:16 UTC 5 years ago

Yes.

aineotter

September 23 2011, 04:55:09 UTC 5 years ago

Yes, yay! :-)
Are you going to have any public events in Seattle, or just visiting friends? ' Cause I'll come and bring my son, who's also a big fan of Toby, if you are.
Also, I read Feed almost two weeks ago, but just last night had zombie apocalypse dreams. But I think I mostly blame chili and chambord before bed for that...

September 23 2011, 14:24:32 UTC 5 years ago

Just visiting friends. I'm flying up for a Counting Crows concert.

yellowblackhaze

September 23 2011, 05:41:50 UTC 5 years ago

If you're happy where Toby is at, then I'm pretty certain I will be too. I haven't been disappointed yet.

September 23 2011, 14:24:38 UTC 5 years ago

Aw, yay. :)

glam_k

September 23 2011, 14:50:54 UTC 5 years ago

If you're happy, we'll be happy. That's the way it works. YAY!!

September 26 2011, 15:56:51 UTC 5 years ago

Yay!

serge_lj

September 23 2011, 15:07:21 UTC 5 years ago

Rocky the Maine Coon never sneers at his food. Neither does Agatha the Cat Genius and, if she decides not to finish the contents of her dish (especially if she's just brought down another dove), I have to put her dish away otherwise Rocky will do it for her. And if he doesn't finish his dish, Nahla the Basenji Dog will help herself to that.

September 26 2011, 15:57:06 UTC 5 years ago

Ah, cats.

And dogs.

pbristow

September 23 2011, 17:59:59 UTC 5 years ago

Here's the plan: You be cryptic (you seem to be pretty good at that), and I'll be forgetful (believe me, I'm an *ACE* at that!), and between us we'll thereby protect my future self from having the faintest clue what he's about to read. =;o}

Deal?