urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire The Journal of Seanan McGuire Seanan McGuire 2012-06-20T04:40:43Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire:448489 2012-06-20T04:40:43Z 2012-06-20T04:40:43Z Glee, "Tongue Tied." Words: 1,878.<br />Total words: 1,878.<br />Reason for stopping: it's time for bed.<br />Music: the <i>Rock of Ages</i> soundtrack.<br />The cats: Alice, bed; Thomas, bed; Lilly, cat tree.<br /><br />It's official: as of tonight, <i>Chimes at Midnight</i> is properly and officially started. I've hammered through most of chapter one, I've established the initial conflict that kicks everything else off, and I've remembered why I am so damn in love with this world and the people that it contains. I know some people are frustrated by the fact that I've gone down to one Toby book a year to make room for InCryptid, and while I desperately hope that someday I'll be able to be full-time and write three urban fantasies a year, there's a beautiful homecoming aspect after having taken this long of a break that's just plain magical. It's like...this is where I wanted to be, and I barely even knew it. It's amazing.<br /><br />Tomorrow night, I'll knock out another thousand or so words of the Rose Marshall story I'm working on (it's for an anthology), and then I'll finish chapter one of <i>Chimes at Midnight</i>. And then I'll probably cry, because here we go again.<br /><br />Here we go again.