Look what the amazing, fantabulous, incredible Amy Mebberson made for me! (PS: You totally want to track down and buy her comic book, Divalicious. I'll review it properly when I have time, but for right now, it's two volumes -- a mere twenty dollars! -- of sheer awesome, incredibly well-drawn, and fully rockin'.) But anyway:
That's Verity Price, front and center, looking like she's about to go and kick some serious cryptid butt. The three women behind her are the three generations that came before her. In red, plaid, and a rather rabid expression (she has grenades), we have her grandmother, Alice. In green, curls, and a deceptively placid expression (she has grenades, too), we have her great-grandmother, Fran. And in yellow, ruffles, and a manic grin (her husband has grenades, she has an army of devoted followers), we have her mother, Evelyn.
Did I mention that the cast of InCryptid is sort of scary?
Art is awesome.
That's Verity Price, front and center, looking like she's about to go and kick some serious cryptid butt. The three women behind her are the three generations that came before her. In red, plaid, and a rather rabid expression (she has grenades), we have her grandmother, Alice. In green, curls, and a deceptively placid expression (she has grenades, too), we have her great-grandmother, Fran. And in yellow, ruffles, and a manic grin (her husband has grenades, she has an army of devoted followers), we have her mother, Evelyn.
Did I mention that the cast of InCryptid is sort of scary?
Art is awesome.
- Current Mood:
ecstatic - Current Music:Weird Science, 'Feeling No Pain.'
So periodically, I spend time thinking about the best of all possible worlds -- I call it the world of sunshine and rainbows and zombie ponies, where it occasionally rains candy corn -- and what I'd like to have someday happen there. Beyond the million-dollar book deal, the New York Times best seller, and the death of the previously unknown, fabulously rich relative who leaves me the deed to his sprawling Victorian estate, I mean. Being an enormous comic book geek, I've actually considered who, in my perfect world, would get the chance to adapt my books. And because I'm a nice person, I thought I'd share.
Upon A Star should absolutely be adapted by Amy Mebberson (As If!, Divalicious, my princess icon). Not only is she a joy to work with, but her particular blend of gonzo-Disney and manga-inspired comic layouts would be absolutely perfect for illustrating the story of Corey Markham, accidental teen queen. It would rock my world in the most thorough of manners.
Lycanthropy and Other Personal Issues would ideally be adapted by Chynna Clugston (Blue Monday), whose Archie-gone-wrong approach would be fantastic applied to Clady and company. Given Clady's horror movie fixation, having a slightly comic edge to the illustrations would keep things from getting too-too-bloody. Plus, Chyna draws awesome plaid. Plaid is key.
Now that I've had the silly, let's have the sublime: I would absolutely love to have Discount Armageddon (and sequels) adapted by Carla Speed McNeil (Finder, Mystery Date). Who else could do proper justice to a large colony of pantheistic demon mice? Or to the various cryptids and horrible things that litter Verity's world? She'd be totally ideal. If you don't believe me, check out Finder and be enlightened.
Newsflesh owes a lot to Warren Ellis's Transmetropolitan, which was the work that introduced me to the idea of gonzo journalism (and unlocked a whole new world of possibilities). So I would totally want Darick Robertson, the man who drew Spider Jerusalem and company, to be the one to handle bringing the Masons into an illustrated universe. It would be insane. Insanely awesome.
Toby is the series I have the most time, energy, and love invested in; I guess that means it would naturally be the hardest to select someone for. After a lot of angst and waffling, I'm going to say Pia Guerra (Y: the Last Man) probably comes the closest to what I see inside my head. Although I could be totally wrong. I don't know. It'd make a gorgeous comic, but only if drawn right.
What works, of your own or other people's, would you like to see in comic form? And who would you want to see behind the pencil? Rock me.
Upon A Star should absolutely be adapted by Amy Mebberson (As If!, Divalicious, my princess icon). Not only is she a joy to work with, but her particular blend of gonzo-Disney and manga-inspired comic layouts would be absolutely perfect for illustrating the story of Corey Markham, accidental teen queen. It would rock my world in the most thorough of manners.
Lycanthropy and Other Personal Issues would ideally be adapted by Chynna Clugston (Blue Monday), whose Archie-gone-wrong approach would be fantastic applied to Clady and company. Given Clady's horror movie fixation, having a slightly comic edge to the illustrations would keep things from getting too-too-bloody. Plus, Chyna draws awesome plaid. Plaid is key.
Now that I've had the silly, let's have the sublime: I would absolutely love to have Discount Armageddon (and sequels) adapted by Carla Speed McNeil (Finder, Mystery Date). Who else could do proper justice to a large colony of pantheistic demon mice? Or to the various cryptids and horrible things that litter Verity's world? She'd be totally ideal. If you don't believe me, check out Finder and be enlightened.
Newsflesh owes a lot to Warren Ellis's Transmetropolitan, which was the work that introduced me to the idea of gonzo journalism (and unlocked a whole new world of possibilities). So I would totally want Darick Robertson, the man who drew Spider Jerusalem and company, to be the one to handle bringing the Masons into an illustrated universe. It would be insane. Insanely awesome.
Toby is the series I have the most time, energy, and love invested in; I guess that means it would naturally be the hardest to select someone for. After a lot of angst and waffling, I'm going to say Pia Guerra (Y: the Last Man) probably comes the closest to what I see inside my head. Although I could be totally wrong. I don't know. It'd make a gorgeous comic, but only if drawn right.
What works, of your own or other people's, would you like to see in comic form? And who would you want to see behind the pencil? Rock me.
- Current Mood:
thoughtful - Current Music:Ookla the Mok, 'Stop Talking About Comic Books.'
Current stats:
Words: 3,797.
Total words: 16,670.
Reason for stopping: chapter five is closed and done.
Music: mostly salsa music, actually.
Lilly: sacked out on the bed.
I've managed to break fifty pages (and then some -- the book is currently at sixty-one pages), introduce pretty much all my major characters and supporting family members, work in several scenes involving hyperactive religious mice, and drop Verity off several buildings. (This statement is not really a spoiler, as dropping Verity off buildings is currently one of my favorite occupations. It's soothing.)
My mother thinks this series may be the best thing I've ever come up with. I blame this on the fact that she's a huge fan of several reality-based dance competitions, and I use a reality-based dance competition in the series. (Book five is actually set at a reunion of the cast from Verity's year. Yeah, it's already acquired a book five. Don't look at me like that.)
Next up, I start beating people about the head and shoulders with plot, and probably throw Verity off a few more buildings. Life is good.
Words: 3,797.
Total words: 16,670.
Reason for stopping: chapter five is closed and done.
Music: mostly salsa music, actually.
Lilly: sacked out on the bed.
I've managed to break fifty pages (and then some -- the book is currently at sixty-one pages), introduce pretty much all my major characters and supporting family members, work in several scenes involving hyperactive religious mice, and drop Verity off several buildings. (This statement is not really a spoiler, as dropping Verity off buildings is currently one of my favorite occupations. It's soothing.)
My mother thinks this series may be the best thing I've ever come up with. I blame this on the fact that she's a huge fan of several reality-based dance competitions, and I use a reality-based dance competition in the series. (Book five is actually set at a reunion of the cast from Verity's year. Yeah, it's already acquired a book five. Don't look at me like that.)
Next up, I start beating people about the head and shoulders with plot, and probably throw Verity off a few more buildings. Life is good.
- Current Mood:
accomplished - Current Music:October Project, 'A Lonely Voice.'
Current stats:
Words: 3,893.
Total words: 12,873.
Reason for stopping: chapter four is ready to hit the dance floor.
Music: all Counting Crows, all day long.
Lilly: sound asleep on the filing cabinets.
The game's afoot, the gang's all here, and we've finally managed to break 10,000 words. I'm only two pages shy of breaking fifty pages, too, which is always an awesome feeling (second only to breaking a hundred -- every time a book reaches a hundred pages, I have the serious urge to throw a massive and debauched revel). I'm incredibly pleased with the way things are progressing, and I'm even managing to stick reasonably close to the series proposal outline. Which is something of a miracle.
Coming up with the bumper quotes that begin every chapter is far too much fun to be actually legal. They're just random little bits of 'family wisdom,' but they're awesome. The nice thing about bumper quotes is that as long as they fit the story and set the mood you're looking for, they don't have to flow; they're like darlings in amber, yours forever.
I estimate this book at two chapters from becoming substantially more difficult to write, as the heavy-duty plot kicks in, but it's all so much fun that I'm even looking forward to that.
Words: 3,893.
Total words: 12,873.
Reason for stopping: chapter four is ready to hit the dance floor.
Music: all Counting Crows, all day long.
Lilly: sound asleep on the filing cabinets.
The game's afoot, the gang's all here, and we've finally managed to break 10,000 words. I'm only two pages shy of breaking fifty pages, too, which is always an awesome feeling (second only to breaking a hundred -- every time a book reaches a hundred pages, I have the serious urge to throw a massive and debauched revel). I'm incredibly pleased with the way things are progressing, and I'm even managing to stick reasonably close to the series proposal outline. Which is something of a miracle.
Coming up with the bumper quotes that begin every chapter is far too much fun to be actually legal. They're just random little bits of 'family wisdom,' but they're awesome. The nice thing about bumper quotes is that as long as they fit the story and set the mood you're looking for, they don't have to flow; they're like darlings in amber, yours forever.
I estimate this book at two chapters from becoming substantially more difficult to write, as the heavy-duty plot kicks in, but it's all so much fun that I'm even looking forward to that.
- Current Mood: accomplished
- Current Music:Counting Crows, 'Angels of the Silences.'
As a rule, I'm working on a minimum of three projects at any given time. For 'working on,' read either 'writing' or 'seriously and intensively revising.' (There will usually be other projects overlapping, but they're generally the sort that require less constant attention -- processing light edits, outlining, setting up the continuity guide for a sequel.) Right now, those projects are Late Eclipses of the Sun (Toby four), The Mourning Edition (sequel to Newsflesh), and Discount Armageddon (Incryptid one). A month ago, they were Late Eclipses of the Sun, Newsflesh, and Lycanthropy and Other Personal Issues. What a difference a few weeks can make, huh?
I like working on multiple projects at the same time. When something is really on fire, I can buckle down and dig my heels in, and when everything is just chuckling along at a normal pace, it means I keep myself rotating so that nothing ever has the chance to get stale. I know something is going well when I start thinking about the next thing. I'm really comfortable inside a book when it's so familiar that it's practically transcription of things I already know, and that frees my mind to go pondering what happens next in the next thing in the cycle.
When I finished last week's chapter of The Mourning Edition, I was immediately thinking about a pacing problem in the last quarter of Late Eclipses, and finally figured out how it could be repaired. While I was dealing with Late Eclipses, I found myself thinking about Verity, and ways to keep things moving without losing the quixotic edge that makes her story so damn much fun to write. And now that I'm back on Discount Armageddon, I'm pondering what's going on in my happy zombie wonderland. As long as I know what happens next, my mind is free to roam, and the text is almost always the better for it.
People periodically ask me how I juggle things. It's one of those questions that sort of causes me to look blank and blink a lot, because I really just do. I write about as fast as I think, and I need to pause sometimes and think about what I'm going to do next; that's what the alternate projects are for. As for making sure each gets its fair share of my attention, well, that's why I keep to-do lists.
My week so far has looked like this:
MONDAY: Work on revisions to the end of Late Eclipses.
TUESDAY: Finish revisions to the end of Late Eclipses, process reader edits.
WEDNESDAY: Agent revisions to An Artificial Night, start on chapter four of Discount Armageddon.
Today, I'm finishing chapter four of Discount Armageddon, and tomorrow I'll be starting on the next chunk of The Mourning Edition, with a break to work on my story for Grant's Pass. My to-do lists are robust and sassy, and glad to assist me in making progress.
Life is good.
I like working on multiple projects at the same time. When something is really on fire, I can buckle down and dig my heels in, and when everything is just chuckling along at a normal pace, it means I keep myself rotating so that nothing ever has the chance to get stale. I know something is going well when I start thinking about the next thing. I'm really comfortable inside a book when it's so familiar that it's practically transcription of things I already know, and that frees my mind to go pondering what happens next in the next thing in the cycle.
When I finished last week's chapter of The Mourning Edition, I was immediately thinking about a pacing problem in the last quarter of Late Eclipses, and finally figured out how it could be repaired. While I was dealing with Late Eclipses, I found myself thinking about Verity, and ways to keep things moving without losing the quixotic edge that makes her story so damn much fun to write. And now that I'm back on Discount Armageddon, I'm pondering what's going on in my happy zombie wonderland. As long as I know what happens next, my mind is free to roam, and the text is almost always the better for it.
People periodically ask me how I juggle things. It's one of those questions that sort of causes me to look blank and blink a lot, because I really just do. I write about as fast as I think, and I need to pause sometimes and think about what I'm going to do next; that's what the alternate projects are for. As for making sure each gets its fair share of my attention, well, that's why I keep to-do lists.
My week so far has looked like this:
MONDAY: Work on revisions to the end of Late Eclipses.
TUESDAY: Finish revisions to the end of Late Eclipses, process reader edits.
WEDNESDAY: Agent revisions to An Artificial Night, start on chapter four of Discount Armageddon.
Today, I'm finishing chapter four of Discount Armageddon, and tomorrow I'll be starting on the next chunk of The Mourning Edition, with a break to work on my story for Grant's Pass. My to-do lists are robust and sassy, and glad to assist me in making progress.
Life is good.
- Current Mood: accomplished
- Current Music:Counting Crows, 'Miami.'
It's time for the September installment of 'Seanan's current projects,' the post where I explain what I'm working on and what its status happens to be! Please note that Rosemary and Rue and A Local Habitation have once again vanished from this list, as they have finished another stage in the revision process and been returned to DAW. The next input I'm gonna have will come with the ARCs. Ah, progress. It smells like fear. Newsflesh and An Artificial Night are also currently off the list; they're under review with my agent, and are thus not being actively worked on.
The cut-tag endures, because this list is getting slowly longer and longer. This is a natural consequence of living inside my head, where the darkness is. The darkness and the pumpkin pie and the bats. The bats have plague, by the way.
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The cut-tag endures, because this list is getting slowly longer and longer. This is a natural consequence of living inside my head, where the darkness is. The darkness and the pumpkin pie and the bats. The bats have plague, by the way.
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- Current Mood:
busy - Current Music:Children of Eden, 'Generations of Adam.'
Current stats:
Words: 3,130.
Total words: 8,980
Reason for stopping: chapter three is in the can!
Music: weird covers and We're About 9, alternating.
Lilly: standing guard by my chair.
Everybody dance now! No, seriously. With chapter three in the can, I'm getting a firm handle on my world, my situation, and best of all, my main character. (Especially when writing a first book with a new POV person, I can take a few chapters to really figure out what I'm doing. Which is what the second draft is for, obviously.)
Can I just note that this book is so damn fun to write? It should probably be criminal for me to spend this much time giggling to myself, and it's not just because of the mice. Also, it's a great excuse to go mucking happily around in cryptid biology. I am a very happy blonde right now.
I will now go eat tuna fish, watch television, and relax, all bathed in righteousness and glory.
Words: 3,130.
Total words: 8,980
Reason for stopping: chapter three is in the can!
Music: weird covers and We're About 9, alternating.
Lilly: standing guard by my chair.
Everybody dance now! No, seriously. With chapter three in the can, I'm getting a firm handle on my world, my situation, and best of all, my main character. (Especially when writing a first book with a new POV person, I can take a few chapters to really figure out what I'm doing. Which is what the second draft is for, obviously.)
Can I just note that this book is so damn fun to write? It should probably be criminal for me to spend this much time giggling to myself, and it's not just because of the mice. Also, it's a great excuse to go mucking happily around in cryptid biology. I am a very happy blonde right now.
I will now go eat tuna fish, watch television, and relax, all bathed in righteousness and glory.
- Current Mood: ecstatic
- Current Music:We're About 9, 'Writing Again.'
Current stats:
Words: 5,750.
Total words: 5,750.
Reason for stopping: I finished chapter two.
Music: the soundtrack to Weird Romance.
Lilly: standing guard by my chair.
I basically reset the word counter, because I had to rip up and re-do everything after I realized that I had started this book from the wrong point of view. Lots and lots and lots of work. On the other hand? The book is awesome now. First draft awesome, which means it's all going to change, and in six months I'll look back on this post and be all 'what were you smoking?' at myself, but still, I can see that it is awesome, and that it has the potential to rock my tiny world.
Every chapter begins with a little quote from one of the members of the extended family -- and it's very, very extended; I have four generations totally mapped, with options on generations five and six -- to sort of give you an idea of what sort of upbringing our dear Very is the product of. I love the book, but these quotes may be my favorite part. Well, those, and the mice.
So the first two chapters are now out for review, and I'm going to return to somewhat more pressing pursuits, like processing edits for Late Eclipses of the Sun and Lycanthropy and Other Personal Issues and The Mourning Edition and dear gods, I am clearly an android. But I'm a happy android. I have introduced people to Verity.
All good things will come from here.
Words: 5,750.
Total words: 5,750.
Reason for stopping: I finished chapter two.
Music: the soundtrack to Weird Romance.
Lilly: standing guard by my chair.
I basically reset the word counter, because I had to rip up and re-do everything after I realized that I had started this book from the wrong point of view. Lots and lots and lots of work. On the other hand? The book is awesome now. First draft awesome, which means it's all going to change, and in six months I'll look back on this post and be all 'what were you smoking?' at myself, but still, I can see that it is awesome, and that it has the potential to rock my tiny world.
Every chapter begins with a little quote from one of the members of the extended family -- and it's very, very extended; I have four generations totally mapped, with options on generations five and six -- to sort of give you an idea of what sort of upbringing our dear Very is the product of. I love the book, but these quotes may be my favorite part. Well, those, and the mice.
So the first two chapters are now out for review, and I'm going to return to somewhat more pressing pursuits, like processing edits for Late Eclipses of the Sun and Lycanthropy and Other Personal Issues and The Mourning Edition and dear gods, I am clearly an android. But I'm a happy android. I have introduced people to Verity.
All good things will come from here.
- Current Mood: accomplished
- Current Music:Dr. Horrible, 'Bad Horse.'
1) Return home from work basically a walking swamp, due to the summer deciding to have one last party here in California. Collapse into desk chair and download heaping piles of edits rather than doing anything that actually requires coherent thought.
2) Add some pages to the new Toby Wiki, as this requires little more than cutting and pasting, at least for now. Later, this thing is going to require heaping piles of effort and thought, but right now? I cut, I paste, I format, I get bored, I wander away to do something else.
3) Perform major surgery on Late Eclipses of the Sun, slicing the events of chapter three into four equal chunks and stapling them together in a new order before covering the scars with sticky tape and glue. Discover that the chapter is way, way better this way. Grumble.
4) Try to explain the continuity changes to the cat. The cat fails to care.
5) Send the new version of Late Eclipses to my proofing list. Get antsy. Start transitioning Discount Armageddon from third person to first person. Again, discover that the text is way, way better this way. Orders of magnitude better. 'There is no possible way you were wrong about the POV change' better. Grumble more.
6) Process some minor edits to Late Eclipses, including one that points out the fact that there is no such date as April 31st.
7) Decide to go watch Eureka with the cat.
2) Add some pages to the new Toby Wiki, as this requires little more than cutting and pasting, at least for now. Later, this thing is going to require heaping piles of effort and thought, but right now? I cut, I paste, I format, I get bored, I wander away to do something else.
3) Perform major surgery on Late Eclipses of the Sun, slicing the events of chapter three into four equal chunks and stapling them together in a new order before covering the scars with sticky tape and glue. Discover that the chapter is way, way better this way. Grumble.
4) Try to explain the continuity changes to the cat. The cat fails to care.
5) Send the new version of Late Eclipses to my proofing list. Get antsy. Start transitioning Discount Armageddon from third person to first person. Again, discover that the text is way, way better this way. Orders of magnitude better. 'There is no possible way you were wrong about the POV change' better. Grumble more.
6) Process some minor edits to Late Eclipses, including one that points out the fact that there is no such date as April 31st.
7) Decide to go watch Eureka with the cat.
- Current Mood: busy
- Current Music:Melissa Etheridge, 'Talking to My Angel.'
Current stats:
Words: 3,080.
Total words: 4,195.
Reason for stopping: I finished chapter one.
Music: weird covers and salsa music, mostly.
Lilly: asleep in the bed.
Good news: I have finished the first chapter of Discount Armageddon, part one in the story of Verity 'Very' Price, possibly the world's only professional salsa dancer-slash-cryptozoologist (which is a combination that very rarely comes up on Craig's List). Chapter one of a brand new book, all finished and shiny!
Bad news: Yeah, I totally wrote that from the wrong POV. I was trying to experiment with actually writing a book in the third person for a change, and while that's an awesome goal that will one day be accomplished -- probably with Nativity of Chance -- this is not the book to accomplish it with. Just for giggles, I translated a few paragraphs from third person to first person, and was suddenly handed a great big bucket of awesome. Let that be a lesson to me.
Good news: I figured out what I was doing wrong after 4,000 words, not 40,000 words, and with me, that's always a bit of a risk. So while I'm going to have to do a lot of revision and rewriting and reframing, it's going to be a lot lighter and less painful than it might otherwise have been. Again, this is the good news part of our program.
Bad news: The fact that I need to do this at all is going to set me back several days in my overly-ambitious personal timeline. But again, that's okay; it means I won't get another fifty pages of text finished and wind up going 'aw, shit' as I'm forced to tear it all out and throw it all away. Flashbacks and prior-to-current-generation material remains third person, everything else, going straight to first.
And that's a wrap.
Words: 3,080.
Total words: 4,195.
Reason for stopping: I finished chapter one.
Music: weird covers and salsa music, mostly.
Lilly: asleep in the bed.
Good news: I have finished the first chapter of Discount Armageddon, part one in the story of Verity 'Very' Price, possibly the world's only professional salsa dancer-slash-cryptozoologist (which is a combination that very rarely comes up on Craig's List). Chapter one of a brand new book, all finished and shiny!
Bad news: Yeah, I totally wrote that from the wrong POV. I was trying to experiment with actually writing a book in the third person for a change, and while that's an awesome goal that will one day be accomplished -- probably with Nativity of Chance -- this is not the book to accomplish it with. Just for giggles, I translated a few paragraphs from third person to first person, and was suddenly handed a great big bucket of awesome. Let that be a lesson to me.
Good news: I figured out what I was doing wrong after 4,000 words, not 40,000 words, and with me, that's always a bit of a risk. So while I'm going to have to do a lot of revision and rewriting and reframing, it's going to be a lot lighter and less painful than it might otherwise have been. Again, this is the good news part of our program.
Bad news: The fact that I need to do this at all is going to set me back several days in my overly-ambitious personal timeline. But again, that's okay; it means I won't get another fifty pages of text finished and wind up going 'aw, shit' as I'm forced to tear it all out and throw it all away. Flashbacks and prior-to-current-generation material remains third person, everything else, going straight to first.
And that's a wrap.
- Current Mood:
annoyed - Current Music:The Faders, 'No Sleep Tonight.'
(For purposes of this post, 'post-weekend' means 'Thursday night to now.')
Well, things continue to be hectic around here, which is exactly how I like them, so I really can't complain. Since Thursday, I have...
* Finished the initial revisions on Lycanthropy and Other Personal Issues. This was draft one-and-a-half, to let me fix all the continuity glitches and authorial stupid that had managed to creep in around the edges; now I'm ready to kick off draft two, during which I'll lose 10% of my hard-earned word count and hit all my characters repeatedly with a hammer. Because that's social. I'm feeling super-good about this book, and I love, love, love the fact that it's finally, blessedly finished.
* Purchased tickets to head for Seattle for my first pre-Conflikt rehearsal. Conflikt is the Pacific Northwest's own filk convention, and I'm going to be their Guest of Honor in 2009 (it's a January convention). I'm super-excited, but I'm also super-nervous. Rehearsal will make the nervousness become less while the excitement becomes more. It's a match made in heaven. Plus I get to hang out with all my awesome Seattle area friends, and that never fails to make me happy.
* Processed a bucketload of edits on Late Eclipses of the Sun, aka, 'Toby Daye book four,' aka, 'Seanan, if you just sold the first three, what the hell is wrong with you that you're working on the fourth one already?!' OCD cat is working marginally ahead of the curve, yo. OCD cat is also endlessly amazed by the editing process, because, well...I'm a pretty good author. I think I can say that without bragging, since, y'know, sold the trilogy and all. But give me a bunch of good proofreaders with machetes, and things become amazing. I'm watching this book just get better and better, and it's incredible.
* Finished the third chapter of The Mourning Edition, bringing me one step closer to world domination through zombies. I like world domination through zombies. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
* Entered about ten pages of data into my Toby Continuity Wiki, where it gleams in hyperlinked, clickable glory, thrilling my OCD heart to no end. It's gorgeous. I'm trying not to think about the part where it's the beginning of several hundred cumulative hours of work, because it really is going to make my life infinitely easier, and just dwell on the part where it's gorgeous.
* Started Discount Armageddon, book one of the Price series. Because I know you're gonna say it anyway, say it with me now: CHEESE! AND! CAKE! Also, ballroom dancing, snarky chameleon girls in fancy hotels, apartments sublet from Yeti, and La Parkour. It's good at be this kind of crazy.
My weekend was awesome. How was yours?
Well, things continue to be hectic around here, which is exactly how I like them, so I really can't complain. Since Thursday, I have...
* Finished the initial revisions on Lycanthropy and Other Personal Issues. This was draft one-and-a-half, to let me fix all the continuity glitches and authorial stupid that had managed to creep in around the edges; now I'm ready to kick off draft two, during which I'll lose 10% of my hard-earned word count and hit all my characters repeatedly with a hammer. Because that's social. I'm feeling super-good about this book, and I love, love, love the fact that it's finally, blessedly finished.
* Purchased tickets to head for Seattle for my first pre-Conflikt rehearsal. Conflikt is the Pacific Northwest's own filk convention, and I'm going to be their Guest of Honor in 2009 (it's a January convention). I'm super-excited, but I'm also super-nervous. Rehearsal will make the nervousness become less while the excitement becomes more. It's a match made in heaven. Plus I get to hang out with all my awesome Seattle area friends, and that never fails to make me happy.
* Processed a bucketload of edits on Late Eclipses of the Sun, aka, 'Toby Daye book four,' aka, 'Seanan, if you just sold the first three, what the hell is wrong with you that you're working on the fourth one already?!' OCD cat is working marginally ahead of the curve, yo. OCD cat is also endlessly amazed by the editing process, because, well...I'm a pretty good author. I think I can say that without bragging, since, y'know, sold the trilogy and all. But give me a bunch of good proofreaders with machetes, and things become amazing. I'm watching this book just get better and better, and it's incredible.
* Finished the third chapter of The Mourning Edition, bringing me one step closer to world domination through zombies. I like world domination through zombies. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
* Entered about ten pages of data into my Toby Continuity Wiki, where it gleams in hyperlinked, clickable glory, thrilling my OCD heart to no end. It's gorgeous. I'm trying not to think about the part where it's the beginning of several hundred cumulative hours of work, because it really is going to make my life infinitely easier, and just dwell on the part where it's gorgeous.
* Started Discount Armageddon, book one of the Price series. Because I know you're gonna say it anyway, say it with me now: CHEESE! AND! CAKE! Also, ballroom dancing, snarky chameleon girls in fancy hotels, apartments sublet from Yeti, and La Parkour. It's good at be this kind of crazy.
My weekend was awesome. How was yours?
- Current Music:Aqua, 'Cartoon Heroes.'
Current stats:
Words: 1,115.
Total words: 1,115.
Reason for stopping: I had to go to my epidural.
Music: the Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors.
Lilly: sacked out in my lap.
Please note the lovely new icon. What does the lovely new icon mean? The lovely new icon means there's a lovely new book in the neighborhood, kicking ass and taking names. And doing it in high heels roughly half the time, mind you. Meet Verity 'Very' Price, the eldest girl in the current generation of a family of cryptozoologists working to protect the cryptids of North America from mankind -- and mankind from them.
Discount Armageddon is the first of two books to feature Verity. The second is Midnight Blue-Light Special, but that is, thankfully, some distance in the future. Anyway, a thousand words is a drop in the bucket, but it's a drop that gives me something to work from, and more, it's letting me test my footing in this new universe. The only people on-screen so far are Very and the mice, and that's more than enough for the moment. Besides, the mice can take up a lot of screen.
Verity Price. Kicking cryptid ass with ballroom dance so you don't have to.
Words: 1,115.
Total words: 1,115.
Reason for stopping: I had to go to my epidural.
Music: the Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors.
Lilly: sacked out in my lap.
Please note the lovely new icon. What does the lovely new icon mean? The lovely new icon means there's a lovely new book in the neighborhood, kicking ass and taking names. And doing it in high heels roughly half the time, mind you. Meet Verity 'Very' Price, the eldest girl in the current generation of a family of cryptozoologists working to protect the cryptids of North America from mankind -- and mankind from them.
Discount Armageddon is the first of two books to feature Verity. The second is Midnight Blue-Light Special, but that is, thankfully, some distance in the future. Anyway, a thousand words is a drop in the bucket, but it's a drop that gives me something to work from, and more, it's letting me test my footing in this new universe. The only people on-screen so far are Very and the mice, and that's more than enough for the moment. Besides, the mice can take up a lot of screen.
Verity Price. Kicking cryptid ass with ballroom dance so you don't have to.
- Current Mood: accomplished
- Current Music:Helen Reddy, 'Candle On the Water.'
It's time for the August installment of 'Seanan's current projects,' the post where I explain what I'm working on and what its status happens to be! Please note that Rosemary and Rue and A Local Habitation have once again vanished from this list, as they have finished another stage in the revision process and been returned to DAW. The next input I'm gonna have will come with the ARCs. Ah, progress. It smells like fear.
The cut-tag endures, because this list is getting slowly longer and longer. This is a natural consequence of living inside my head, where the darkness is. The darkness and the pumpkin pie and the bats. The bats have plague, by the way.
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The cut-tag endures, because this list is getting slowly longer and longer. This is a natural consequence of living inside my head, where the darkness is. The darkness and the pumpkin pie and the bats. The bats have plague, by the way.
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- Current Mood: busy
- Current Music:Aqua, 'Good Guys.'
It's time for the July installment of 'Seanan's current projects,' the post where I explain what I'm working on and what its status happens to be! Please note that Rosemary and Rue and A Local Habitation have returned to this list after a brief vacation, because they've finished their initial review at DAW and are now entering the glorious revision process. Ah, progress. It smells like fear.
Also, this time we're cut-tagging, because the list has, as is so often the case with me, managed to get longer. My brain, ladies and gentlemen. Nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live here.
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Also, this time we're cut-tagging, because the list has, as is so often the case with me, managed to get longer. My brain, ladies and gentlemen. Nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live here.
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- Current Mood: busy
- Current Music:Aqua, 'Around the World.'
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