Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: chipper
  • Music: Jill Tracy, "Evil Night Together."

Word count -- CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT.

Words: 3,104.
Total words: 11,242.
Reason for stopping: I am out of go. Time to watch Eureka.
The cats: Alice, eating; Lilly, washing her toes; Thomas, elsewhere.
Music: random shuffle, lots of Jill Tracy.

So I didn't quite finish chapter three, but as I have left absolutely no time for the poor Machete Squad to cope with things, I'm okay with that. I have a very ambitious word count schedule for the rest of the week, largely because I'm going out of town for the weekend to attend a memorial, and I'd like to have things ready before I depart. This way, I figure I can send lots of files to be reviewed, and come home to lots of things to correct. Thus is the circle of authorial life maintained.

I'm still getting comfortable inside this book (although it took like six words for me to get comfortable inside of Toby's head, because I've been living there for so long that it's practically my second address). I'll be hitting the main plot soon, and in the meantime, I'm trying to work the exposition and reminders into the text in an organic way. It's fun! And brain-bending.

And that is why I am now going to go and watch television. A girl's got to get her recovery somewhere, right? Right.
Tags: being productive, chimes at midnight, toby daye, word count
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jillheather

June 26 2012, 03:47:57 UTC 5 years ago

I have always liked your use of exposition and reminders -- the Newsflesh books, which I didn't reread before the next book, had enough to remind me what happened, while the Toby books, which I do reread, never bore me with a chapter full of ponderous recaps.

I had intended to ask: you said you are into Act II of Toby's story with book 10 (books I am delightedly looking forward to) -- but is this Act II of a two act play, or a five act one? (I ask this with some bitterness towards my grade five English teacher, who dinged me when I said plays normally had 2 acts, as every single one I had been to -- primarily summer stock musicals at that point -- had two acts. Apparently I was to know that 5 is the standard number, because Shakespeare did five acts.)

seanan_mcguire

June 26 2012, 17:50:56 UTC 5 years ago

I don't know yet. A five act play would imply twenty-five books. I'm not sure even I could sustain that. So it's likely to be either two or three.