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

thegreenyear

June 29 2012, 03:28:30 UTC 5 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 5 years ago

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

thegreenyear

June 29 2012, 03:42:52 UTC 5 years ago

The Feast of Hell Yes, Now On To The Next Project?

wendyzski

June 29 2012, 20:03:34 UTC 5 years ago

The Festival of Word Count is an irregular celebration, based on the writing progress of the colony's priestess. It generally takes place at intervals of 5000 words, and is a rather quiet event involves a ritual dance involving a great deav lof hand-waving. This is thought to derive from the human gesture of shaking out writer' cramps that was common in the days when most writing was done by hand. This is followed by a long nap/

There is a special variant of this Festival reserved for completion of a book. This is a much more elaborate event, resembling a Feast.