Words: 4,780
Total words: 49,140
Reason for stopping: finished chapter nineteen.
Music: the mid-80s section of my Lycanthropy play list.
Lilly: trying hard to ignore me, because I made her stop licking the keyboard.
And then we had our FIRST BIG BOOM. Because everybody needs a FIRST BIG BOOM. I have all my primary characters at this point (including the seemingly obligatory Major Character I Didn't Anticipate Being A Major Character), all my guns are on the wall and all my plot points are rather firmly in place, and I'm merrily anticipating the downhill slope from here to the conclusion of the book. It's been somewhat hampered by deadlines -- both self-imposed and external -- on the Toby books, but with the first two of those out of their really heavy lifting phase, I'm finally able to concentrate a little more tightly on Clady.
(And yes, Newsflesh remains high on the priority list. It's just that it's still in that lovely 'settling' phase while I try to figure out where to make the changes that need making, while Clady's story, well...I want to know what happens next!)
The delays have actually been really good for the story, overall; I now know everything that happens in book two (Sit, Stay, I Love You) a lot more intimately than I did, say, six months ago. But wow, do I feel accomplished today!
May 30 2008, 01:05:02 UTC 9 years ago
Have a lovely day! :-)