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

[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.