urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire The Journal of Seanan McGuire Seanan McGuire 2011-02-27T05:48:24Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire:327717 2011-02-27T05:48:24Z 2011-02-27T05:48:24Z Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Strip My Mind." Current stats:<br /><br />Words: 115,732<br />Pages: 427<br />Chapters: thirty-five of thirty-five<br />Started: February 15th, 2011<br />Finished: February 26th, 2011<br /><br />So it turns out that when I'm really focused and not working too much on anything else (largely because I knew that failure to handle my revisions would make me useless as far as finishing anything else goes), I can get from one end of the longest Toby manuscript yet to the other end in eleven days. In case I ever need to go in for land-speed trials or anything crazy like that.<br /><br />My timeline is fixed; my dialogue is tighter; my blocking is clarified; some questions have been answered; some new questions have been raised. I feel much more confident in <i>Ashes of Honor</i> now that I think I truly understand where the ground is at the end of <i>One Salt Sea</i>. It's a better book than it was eleven days ago. The Machete Squad has it now; I believe it will be a better book still when they're done with it. And then I can focus on the things yet to come, like Newsflesh three, and Toby six, and InCryptid two.<br /><br />Sleep is for other people. Not me, and not Toby.<br /><br />But it's a book, and I'm going to bed.