urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire The Journal of Seanan McGuire Seanan McGuire 2012-02-19T06:48:19Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire:423267 2012-02-19T06:42:14Z 2012-02-19T06:48:19Z Counting Crows, "Washington Square." Current stats:<br /><br />Words: 8,464.<br />Total words: 101,114.<br />Reason for stopping: I sort of, well, ran out of book.<br />Music: lots of things, mostly Dave and Tracy.<br />Lilly, Alice, and Thomas: bed, orange cat tree, and beige cat tree, respectively.<br /><br />First draft stats:<br /><br />Pages: 347<br />Chapters: twenty-five, plus a prologue and an epilogue<br />Started: November 2, 2010<br />Finished: February 18, 2012<br /><br />So it turns out that finishing a Toby book and a Mira Grant book and doing lots of conventions and writing <i>another</i> Toby book and a couple of Mira Grant novellas and not sleeping makes me slow. Which is why this book took fifteen months to write (the first one took fourteen months, and I swore that this one would go faster). And yet. I am done with the first draft of <i>Midnight Blue-Light Special</i>, and <i>Discount Armageddon</i> is not yet on shelves, and that means I win.<br /><br />I am so tired. I am physically and emotionally exhausted, and my eyes hurt because I cried through the last two chapters. But I am done. I am finished.<br /><br />I will deal with a few pending edits and send the first draft to the Machete Squad tomorrow. But for right now? I sleep.<br /><br />For right now, I win.