Word count -- Lycanthropy.

[seanan_mcguire]

Here go:

Words: 4,060
Total words: 63,080
Reason for stopping: finished chapter twenty-four.
Music: whatever happened to be playing at the time.
Lilly: asleep in my tank top drawer. Again.

I managed to find a) my additional word count, and b) Jason without his shirt on. I basically win at writing. I have defeated all those who might oppose me, and I have returned home with the finest spoils of battle. Said spoils are going to require whacking with a machete before they really qualify as 'awesome,' rather than just 'potentially so awesome it makes my teeth hurt,' but that's why I have a machete. Without a machete, there's so very much that you just can't do.

Almost everything that I have left in this book is wham-wham-wham-action-adventure-wham, which is always fun (and fast) to write. Especially when I'm dealing with Clady, who's seen every horror movie ever made, and is thus immune to many of the stupid horror movie girl cliches. She still makes mistakes. It's just that they're very different mistakes, full of unexpected badness. Putting a horror movie savvy character into a horror movie world is just so much fun. I should have done it years ago. Except that, had I done it years ago, it wouldn't have been Clady. So I suppose there's a reason that everything happens in its own time.

This book has, at most, 10,000 words left to go. And I am loving every single one of 'em. Whee!

Comments

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Even that 7,345th "the"?

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Yes. EVEN THAT.

[laurenthemself]

This is awesome progress. Although I did think 'wait, her tank has a top drawer?' before my brain actually woke up.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I did that! It took me at least 3 rereadings to work out that it wasn't the top drawer of her tank (I can quite believe that she has a tank, of the military variety, in case of zombie invasions).

The alarming thing is that it's perfectly good English and there is no way I can think of to disambiguate it apart from hyphenating tank-top, which is a horrible solution.

[laurenthemself]

I wouldn't be at all surprised if she had a tank, and that it had drawers specially installed for kitty sleeping places.

We could always just leave it ambiguous; surely that would be more fun!

[pensnuggles.livejournal.com]

I feel so mundane. I assumed she meant that her tank top had a drawer for Lilly to sleep in. Or that she had a new euphemism for "cats in racks".

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Meet English: the monster that's confusing your context because it can.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

If I ever get a tank, I'm installing a top drawer, just for you.

[laurenthemself]

*happydances*

Yay

[yolandasfetsos.livejournal.com]

Sounds awesome to me! :D

Re: Yay

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I'm so excited.

[biguglymandoll.livejournal.com]

I am *so* reading this book. If you don't have a zillion people in line for ARC-type copies, consider this a request! ;-)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Ha! I don't have that queue forming just yet (except that now technically, I suppose I do); we're looking to finish and sell the book before I start worrying about ARCs and who gets what/when/where. But yay on so reading it! I adore Clady and her gang, and I can't wait until other people get to start meeting them.