urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire The Journal of Seanan McGuire Seanan McGuire 2010-11-29T15:57:02Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire:295222 2010-11-29T15:57:02Z 2010-11-29T15:57:02Z Talis Kimberley, "One Big Sea." Behold! For now I wear the human pants! I have processed all machete squad and agent notes on <i>One Salt Sea</i>, gone through the book end-to-end to make sure everything still makes sense, returned it to The Agent, and made final tweaks based on her commentary. Now it's finally off to have a nice nap on The Editor's desk while she's in Australia, which means a) I made my deadline, and b) I can finally get to work on <i>Ashes of Honor</i>.<br /><br />The current book stats:<br /><br />Pages, 420.<br />Words, 113,912.<br />Chapters, thirty-five.<br />Diet Dr Pepper consumed, probably equivalent to Loch Ness.<br /><br />Despite vicious trimming and dropping several sub-plots, <i>One Salt Sea</i> still wound up fifty pages/almost 7,000 words longer than <i>Late Eclipses</i>, because frankly, there's a lot of shit going on, and very little of it is "padding" in any sense of the word. Toby has matured a lot from where I first met her, in the short story that pre-dated <i>Rosemary and Rue</i>, and it shows. I've matured a lot as a writer, and that shows, too. This book is so much better than I expected it to be, and I'm so excited to have The Editor turning it into something even more awesome.<br /><br />In conclusion...<br /><br />...DINO DANCE PARTY!