Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: happy
  • Music: Hairspray, 'It Takes Two.'

Adventure of the morning!

Today, I begin doing the major surgical adjustments to A Local Habitation. This is, honestly, one of my favorite parts of the writing process. The book is done -- for certain values of 'done' -- and I can see the entire shape of it, all stretched out upon my screen like a patient etherized upon a table. Now I can start determining which of its major organs it really doesn't need, which ones can be easily extracted, and which ones need a little more beefing up. It's a really rewarding period in the evolution of the text.

I managed to get some work done on Lycanthropy yesterday -- not as much as I would have done on, say, a day when I wasn't down with Martian death flu, but since I'm sick, and a next-day review of the text has shown it to be pretty darn good, I'm a happy girl. Clady is just plain fun to write for. I can't wait until everyone else gets to meet her.

Also on the happy-happy joy-joy side of things, when I finish the surgical adjustments to A Local Habitation and send it off, I should be able to take a month or so off from playing in Toby's backyard to address the changes I've been wanting to make in Newsflesh. Because everything is better with zombies. Even chocolate chip cookies. And since I have steadfastly refused to allow my love for the living dead to insert them into any of my other ongoing series (except for Deathless, but that's a special case, given my protagonist), I figure I deserve a little bit of a zombie break. ZOMBIE BREAK!!!!!

Life is good. There's so much writing to be done!
Tags: a local habitation, book status, deathless, editing, feed, lycanthropy, toby daye, writing
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raelee

May 29 2008, 17:27:02 UTC 9 years ago

ZOMBIE BREAK!!!

Oh, I need that t-shirt. Hmmmmm.

seanan_mcguire

May 29 2008, 17:31:53 UTC 9 years ago

I need to find my 'Zombies are the New Black' T-shirt. Lilly's hidden it again.

raelee

May 29 2008, 17:38:34 UTC 9 years ago

Well, can you blame her? If you get your paws on a 'Zombies are the New Black' t-shirt, you hide it with your other precious treasures.

seanan_mcguire

May 30 2008, 00:15:32 UTC 9 years ago

Sadly, all her precious treasures belong to me...

raelee

May 29 2008, 17:41:57 UTC 9 years ago Edited:  May 29 2008, 17:42:13 UTC

I'm totally picturing a comic of: [panel 1] Seanan taps away at the keyboard [panel 2] Seanan running away from dancing with Zombies and the words ZOMBIE BREAK!! exploding across the top [panel 3] Seanan back to tapping away at the keyboard

I think you're infecting me.

seanan_mcguire

May 30 2008, 00:15:44 UTC 9 years ago

I may well draw this. JUST FOR YOU.