urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire The Journal of Seanan McGuire Seanan McGuire 2008-08-04T14:45:46Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire:4028 2008-05-29T17:09:56Z 2008-08-04T14:45:46Z Hairspray, 'It Takes Two.' Today, I begin doing the major surgical adjustments to <i>A Local Habitation</i>. This is, honestly, one of my favorite parts of the writing process. The book is done -- for certain values of 'done' -- and I can see the entire shape of it, all stretched out upon my screen like a patient etherized upon a table. Now I can start determining which of its major organs it really doesn't need, which ones can be easily extracted, and which ones need a little more beefing up. It's a really rewarding period in the evolution of the text.<br /><br />I managed to get some work done on <i>Lycanthropy</i> yesterday -- not as much as I would have done on, say, a day when I wasn't down with Martian death flu, but since I'm sick, and a next-day review of the text has shown it to be pretty darn good, I'm a happy girl. Clady is just plain fun to write for. I can't wait until everyone else gets to meet her.<br /><br />Also on the happy-happy joy-joy side of things, when I finish the surgical adjustments to <i>A Local Habitation</i> and send it off, I should be able to take a month or so off from playing in Toby's backyard to address the changes I've been wanting to make in <i>Newsflesh</i>. Because everything is better with zombies. Even chocolate chip cookies. And since I have steadfastly refused to allow my love for the living dead to insert them into any of my other ongoing series (except for <i>Deathless</i>, but that's a special case, given my protagonist), I figure I deserve a little bit of a zombie break. ZOMBIE BREAK!!!!!<br /><br />Life is good. There's so much writing to be done!