Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: exhausted
  • Music: Glee, "Moves Like Jagger/Jumping Jack Flash."

Word count -- CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT.

Words: 14,505.
Total words: 25,647.
Reason for stopping: ...uh. I think my brain just ran out my ears.
The cats: All three, eating. Mom fed them to make them stop circling my ankles.
Music: random shuffle, mostly Glee MP3s and modern country.

Um. I appear to have just written more than 14,000 words in a single day, with a break in the middle to walk to the grocery store (and another break to eat dinner, a lovely salmon and nectarine salad). I just what I don't even what. I feel like this book got tired of living inside my head and decided to get out with a jackhammer, if that was what it took.

I also feel, sadly, like this is me finally finding equilibrium with being home all day (I had the memorial service, and then I had two sick days, when my body simply said "okay, that's it, we're done" and shut down). So I have hit my groove, I have found my sweet spot...and I get to go back to work on Monday. Which is going to reset things all over again.

But in the end, that's okay, because I added the equivalent of two full short stories to this book today. And I'm going to try to do the same, or close to the same, tomorrow, allowing me to spend Monday night working on actual short stories while the Machete Squad recoils in terror from their inboxes.

Bed now.

Bed FOREVER.
Tags: chimes at midnight, toby daye, word count
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  • 39 comments

scarybaldguy

July 8 2012, 05:53:28 UTC 4 years ago

Hail the Priestess of Unprecedented Wordsmithing and the Festival of Bed Forever!

notalwaysweak

July 8 2012, 11:25:47 UTC 4 years ago

Hail!

seanan_mcguire

4 years ago

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jess_faraday

July 8 2012, 05:53:53 UTC 4 years ago

14K in one day?

You officially win writing. ::impressed::

seanan_mcguire

July 9 2012, 17:27:37 UTC 4 years ago

I'm a little stunned myself.

herewiss13

July 8 2012, 06:15:25 UTC 4 years ago

As a reward for good behavior, you've apparently been picked as "writer of the world" by Making Light (no, not an award, just a descriptor):

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014134.html

pickledginger

July 8 2012, 14:59:42 UTC 4 years ago

Oh, you beat me to it!
http://makinglight.livejournal.com/712226.html

All hail the author of our world's woes?

ladymondegreen

4 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

4 years ago

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angharadd

July 8 2012, 06:54:41 UTC 4 years ago

Oh wow, that's... a lot of words.

seanan_mcguire

July 9 2012, 17:27:54 UTC 4 years ago

Yeah, seriously.

ironed_orchid

July 8 2012, 07:25:41 UTC 4 years ago

That is impressive.

seanan_mcguire

July 9 2012, 17:28:05 UTC 4 years ago

10% of a Toby book in one day!

dragonsally

July 8 2012, 07:51:04 UTC 4 years ago

I'm feeling for your poor hands - that's a lot of words.

pickledginger

July 8 2012, 15:00:54 UTC 4 years ago

Point. Those forearms probably are still aching for an ice bath.

seanan_mcguire

4 years ago

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tenebrosia

July 8 2012, 13:33:14 UTC 4 years ago

Well done, that's a fantastic word-count!

seanan_mcguire

July 9 2012, 17:28:56 UTC 4 years ago

I'm chuffed.

kimuro

July 8 2012, 13:59:33 UTC 4 years ago

Wow.

I'm impressed. That's ...

Wow.

seanan_mcguire

July 9 2012, 17:29:02 UTC 4 years ago

Yeah.

archangelbeth

July 8 2012, 15:48:21 UTC 4 years ago

That is a huge word-count, from my point of view, and the only thing to do is quietly wave pompoms while you collapse in the bed.

seanan_mcguire

July 9 2012, 17:30:02 UTC 4 years ago

It's a huge word count from my point of view, too.

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seanan_mcguire

July 9 2012, 17:30:14 UTC 4 years ago

I am a non-Newtonian fluid.

vincentursus

July 8 2012, 16:48:53 UTC 4 years ago

Wow.

That's amazing.

seanan_mcguire

July 9 2012, 17:30:23 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you.

pointedulac

July 8 2012, 17:29:49 UTC 4 years ago

You are a writing machine. It's amazing. Stupid work on monday messing with your groove though.

seanan_mcguire

July 9 2012, 17:30:30 UTC 4 years ago

Agreed.

rhoda_rants

July 8 2012, 22:18:29 UTC 4 years ago

Um. I appear to have just written more than 14,000 words in a single day

0_0

My mind, it boggles.

seanan_mcguire

July 9 2012, 17:30:40 UTC 4 years ago

Mine, too.

yellowblackhaze

July 8 2012, 22:22:01 UTC 4 years ago

14,000 words in a day? That's just phenomenal.

seanan_mcguire

July 9 2012, 17:32:26 UTC 4 years ago

And scary.

melchar

July 9 2012, 03:35:04 UTC 4 years ago

All hail the Day of the Much Abused Keyboard and Leavening Agent of Paper Reams! ... This day shall be celebrated with alphabet cereal ... unless we can get cake!

seanan_mcguire

July 9 2012, 17:32:37 UTC 4 years ago

HAIL!

celticdragonfly

July 9 2012, 04:32:30 UTC 4 years ago

Um. Wow. Enjoy bed. I am a bit out of touch just now - memorial service? I wish you well with whatever it is you are going through.

I was seeing a post about a Blizzard panel at this Comicon, and thinking ah, poor Comicon, only two more years to go.

seanan_mcguire

July 9 2012, 17:32:50 UTC 4 years ago

And then the zombies come!

vettecat

July 9 2012, 16:39:06 UTC 4 years ago

Bed FOREVER.
Let's wait on that for a while...

seanan_mcguire

July 9 2012, 17:32:57 UTC 4 years ago

Hee.

ashi

July 10 2012, 02:44:35 UTC 4 years ago

Wow. I'm happy when I can read that many in a day. Though I did make it through reading Blackout in 2 days... :)

seanan_mcguire

July 19 2012, 15:26:19 UTC 4 years ago

I'm still a little staggered.