urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire The Journal of Seanan McGuire Seanan McGuire 2012-10-09T00:30:38Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:seanan_mcguire:472121 2012-10-09T00:30:38Z 2012-10-09T00:30:38Z Delta Rae, "Country House." Total words: 122,700.<br />Chapters: Thirty-one.<br />Pages: 412.<br /><br />Reason for stopping: draft one is finished.<br />Music: Delta Rae.<br />The cats: Lilly, bed; Alice, unknown; Thomas, bed.<br /><br />Did somebody get the number of that truck?<br /><br />Well, there you go. Draft one is done. I have edits to process, corrections to make, structural elements to adjust, and lots and lots of trimming to do&mdash;the book is currently somewhere between five and eight thousand words longer than it needs to be, the length of a short story, if you wanted to write a short story made up mostly of "just," "that," and assorted wishy-washy modifiers. But the words are on the page to be mucked about with. The first draft is <i>finished</i>.<br /><br />I am exhausted and I feel sort of beaten, but the draft is <i>done</i>. Tonight, I will drink deep from the keg of victory. BRING ME THE FINEST MUFFINS AND BAGELS IN THE LAND!<br /><br />Draft!