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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mythos_amante

June 20 2012, 14:18:37 UTC 5 years ago

I am ok with whatever doors you leave open to your worlds, whether it's one a year or what! I am re-reading the Toby series (again - it keeps taking longer every year!), and it's awesome. A Local Habitation is always the hardest one for me to get through. LOL, did you come to the local Fry's on your research foray? This Fremont city Toby is in being the one I am in, our Fry's has a Tesla coil. :D

seanan_mcguire

June 20 2012, 15:21:10 UTC 5 years ago

I love that Fry's.

mythos_amante

June 20 2012, 16:12:21 UTC 5 years ago

OH, and I hope the comment about ALH didn't come off badly - I think of it sort of like the up-ramp of a roller coaster: it gives me a lot of anticipatory dread that builds up and up and I KNOW the ride will get me to the end safely but I have to plummet and be thrown through the loop-the-loops and be afraid and see characters die. OK, that last was not like a roller coaster.(Hopefully!)

BTW, I'm very excited at what's developing in the storyline ALL OVER AGAIN!

seanan_mcguire

August 3 2012, 15:43:50 UTC 4 years ago

Not at all! ALH is the locked room mystery, and it's grim and depressing and possibly one of the weakest books in the series. You don't see most of those characters again until book six.

But I'm glad you got through it.