Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: ecstatic
  • Music: Glee, "Tongue Tied."

Word count -- CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT.

Words: 1,878.
Total words: 1,878.
Reason for stopping: it's time for bed.
Music: the Rock of Ages soundtrack.
The cats: Alice, bed; Thomas, bed; Lilly, cat tree.

It's official: as of tonight, Chimes at Midnight is properly and officially started. I've hammered through most of chapter one, I've established the initial conflict that kicks everything else off, and I've remembered why I am so damn in love with this world and the people that it contains. I know some people are frustrated by the fact that I've gone down to one Toby book a year to make room for InCryptid, and while I desperately hope that someday I'll be able to be full-time and write three urban fantasies a year, there's a beautiful homecoming aspect after having taken this long of a break that's just plain magical. It's like...this is where I wanted to be, and I barely even knew it. It's amazing.

Tomorrow night, I'll knock out another thousand or so words of the Rose Marshall story I'm working on (it's for an anthology), and then I'll finish chapter one of Chimes at Midnight. And then I'll probably cry, because here we go again.

Here we go again.
Tags: being productive, chimes at midnight, toby daye, word count
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katyhh

June 20 2012, 08:09:52 UTC 5 years ago

Wellll, I personally am overjoyed about any work you put into InCryptid, cuz I enjoyed Discount Armaggeddon immensely. It is more my kind of read ... granted, I've only read the first Toby book and found it very depressing, to be honest.
I know, I am likely a minority, but I kinda like my books better when they occasionally cheer me up a little. With Rosemary and Rue, I was about to cry all the time and curse the injustice that makes Toby have a shitty life. Now, please note, this isn't a "quality" criticism, because the book *grabbed* me and pulled me in. So, that's good! It just pulled in a way that I personally am not too comfortable with.
InCryptid is more "fluff" but it makes me laugh, so ... bring it on :)

seanan_mcguire

June 20 2012, 15:19:44 UTC 5 years ago

The early Toby books are super-depressing, Rosemary and Rue most of all, because Toby's just so wrecked. She does get better, but she never has that sense of joy that Verity has. I like voluntary heroes as much, if not more, as involuntary ones.

And I promise, the fluff doesn't last.