Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: accomplished
  • Music: Glee, "Silly Love Songs."

Word count -- HALF-OFF RAGNAROK.

Words: 2,231.
Total words: 10,248.
Reason for stopping: I have a really tight schedule tonight, and it's time to switch books.
The cats: Alice and Thomas, on the hallway floor; Lilly, asleep on my suitcase.
Music: lots of Counting Crows.

I don't actually like stopping mid-chapter when it's not to go to bed or something equally pressing, but I'm flying to Hawaii for a memorial service tomorrow, and that means I have a really full docket tonight. I have made word count on this book, I have two edit files to process and another book to work on, it is time to switch worlds. I'll use the first edit file as a palate cleanser, then work on the other book, then hopefully be awake enough to chunk through the second set of edits before bed. If I can't, I'll work on the plane.

I am happy with where this book is going. It's slow so far, but I'm not very far in, and I figure editing and revisions will tighten that up into something awesome and acceptable. And Alex is having long conversations with the mice.

I am happy.
Tags: cheese and cake, halfoff ragnarok, incryptid, word count
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  • 27 comments

kshandra

June 29 2012, 03:27:10 UTC 4 years ago

I will be with you in spirit. (I got to give JSD a hug at BayCon; it was a goodness.)

seanan_mcguire

July 6 2012, 21:26:42 UTC 4 years ago

He needs hugging.

anne_d

June 29 2012, 03:27:23 UTC 4 years ago

And Alex is having long conversations with the mice.

That is awesome right there, all by itself.

seanan_mcguire

July 6 2012, 21:26:57 UTC 4 years ago

Hee.

thegreenyear

June 29 2012, 03:28:30 UTC 4 years ago

i feel like the mice should have a word count ritual. (i love the mice.)

cgbookcat1

June 29 2012, 03:40:27 UTC 4 years ago

Chocolate cake every 5,000 words? Accompanied by incense and funny hats?

thegreenyear

4 years ago

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wendyzski

4 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

July 6 2012, 21:30:53 UTC 4 years ago

They do, but it would take ages to transcribe.

Re: Memorial Sevice

starmalachite

June 29 2012, 04:56:00 UTC 4 years ago

I'm sorry you've lost someone.

seanan_mcguire

July 6 2012, 21:32:12 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you.

indilwen

June 29 2012, 05:21:56 UTC 4 years ago

I'm sorry to hear about the memorial :( Thinking of you with love♥

And yay, more words!

seanan_mcguire

July 6 2012, 21:33:29 UTC 4 years ago

Yay, words!

avahgdu

June 29 2012, 07:03:16 UTC 4 years ago

Sad for your loss. The Oracle loves you, always. Safe Journey.

seanan_mcguire

July 6 2012, 21:59:07 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you.

catsittingstill

June 29 2012, 11:12:25 UTC 4 years ago

I'm sorry you have occasion to go to a memorial service, but hope it goes well.

seanan_mcguire

July 6 2012, 21:59:17 UTC 4 years ago

It was beautiful.

kimuro

June 29 2012, 11:31:19 UTC 4 years ago

Discount Armegeddon is wreaking havoc with my current re-reading of Genesis. I'm working on transcribing a pdf file of the Book in Gaelic into a text file (why not, it's language practice right?) and as my mind susses out what I'm typing, I keep getting flashes of the Aeslin mice - with Abraham as the head mouse.

Very surreal.

seanan_mcguire

July 6 2012, 21:59:30 UTC 4 years ago

That...

That's AWESOME.

notalwaysweak

June 29 2012, 11:53:03 UTC 4 years ago

I am sorry about the memorial, but deeply proud of you for your ability to stick so tenaciously to your work. I hope Lilly doesn't eat your suitcase to prevent your departure.

seanan_mcguire

July 6 2012, 21:59:44 UTC 4 years ago

She did not, for which I am VERY grateful.

peachtales

June 30 2012, 14:05:19 UTC 4 years ago

HAIL THE NEW ARRIVAL!

I am definitely looking forward to this book. :)

seanan_mcguire

July 6 2012, 21:59:50 UTC 4 years ago

Yay!

ravens_shadow

June 30 2012, 18:17:20 UTC 4 years ago

You are in Hawaii. That is so rare and weird for me to have an author I love here. I am sorry to hear it's for such a reason as a memorial, though. My condolences.

~Sabrina

seanan_mcguire

July 6 2012, 22:00:08 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you.

I don't know what island you're on, but I signed books on Maui.

yellowblackhaze

July 1 2012, 22:10:12 UTC 4 years ago

I can imagine the mice could be quite difficult to converse with, having to break into religious observances every other sentence or so.Sorry for your loss, I hope all goes well at the service.

seanan_mcguire

July 6 2012, 22:00:17 UTC 4 years ago

It was lovely.