urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire The Journal of Seanan McGuire Seanan McGuire 2012-07-09T04:28:40Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire:453030 2012-07-09T04:28:40Z 2012-07-09T04:28:40Z Counting Crows, "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby," Words: 9,016.<br />Total words: 34,663.<br />Reason for stopping: Bedtime.<br />The cats: Alice, floor; Lilly, bed; Thomas, kitchen sink (literally).<br />Music: random shuffle, the Counting Crows.<br /><br />9,000 words is a respectable day, even if it's several thousand words shy of yesterday, which was, let's face it, some kind of horrifying cosmic anomaly. I mean, no matter how you slice it, I just added 20,000+ words to this book in a single weekend, which means that most of the Machete Squad is probably going to want to bludgeon me to death when they open their email. Heh heh heh.<br /><br />I'm trucking merrily along on this book, and the speed has helped to quell the freefall feeling of not knowing what in the hell I'm doing. I'm not <i>supposed</i> to know what in the hell I'm doing at this stage; that's what first drafts are <i>for</i>. The Squad will point out my rough spots, and I will fix them, and in the meantime, I could literally finish draft one by August first if I was able to continue at this pace. I can't, and I won't, but wow. It's really awesome to be in this position.<br /><br />I was telling Brooke yesterday that it's weird to be in the books where things are starting to pay off. And it is weird. But it's also amazing.<br /><br />I am so excited.