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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yellowblackhaze

June 26 2012, 22:07:27 UTC 5 years ago

I wish I could watch new Eureka, for some reason the networks here refuse to show us anything beyond season 3. Is there an actual finite end to the Toby books? Or will it just keep going until Toby feels her stories are done?

pbristow

June 29 2012, 22:48:12 UTC 5 years ago

The kinds of book series I like the best are the ones with a definite beginning, middle and end... but with convenient loose ends left to *allow* the author to either drop something retrospectively into the middle of the series, or add a sweet and unexpected coda, *IF* and *WHEN* the author has a good/compelling enough idea...

seanan_mcguire

July 6 2012, 23:47:41 UTC 5 years ago

There's an end, but it won't come until I get there. I always try to leave myself a way out within two books, if it becomes necessary.