Word count -- BLACKOUT.

[seanan_mcguire]

Words: 4,444.
Total words: 4,444.
Reason for stopping: I have finished chapter one.
Music: random shuffle. Lots of angry rock.
Lilly and Alice: flopped on the bed.

Well.

I just wrote an entire first chapter in one long sitting. Like, the whole thing. Beginning, middle, end. I'm just saying. That's a thing. Anyway, here we go again. I recommend hanging onto your seats, because it's going to be a bumpy-ass ride.

Rise up while you can.

Comments

[hanabishirecca.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. I'm excited to see your progress on this story.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Me, too!

[hanabishirecca.livejournal.com]

And by the way. Thank you. Thank you for your wonderful stories that inspire me to improve my writing. Thank you for your beautiful stories with faeries the way I they are meant to be written.

You and Brandon Sanderson started posting updates on completing your corresponding stories at the same time on Twitter. I decided to race the two of you with my fourth draft. I lost, but I finished weeks, perhaps months, sooner than I would have. It was a fun race. :D

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Awesome.

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

BLACKOUT BLACKOUT BLACKOUT *HOP*

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

YES!

[adularia.livejournal.com]

*cheers* ONWARD

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I love that comic strip so hard.

I WILL DO SCIENCE TO IT.

[tsgeisel.livejournal.com]

And, while it may not be a prime number, 4444 is cool too.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

True!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

<3

[artbeco.livejournal.com]

Feed was finally at my local Borders, face-out in the Sci Fi/Fantasy section, prominent. YAY!!!!

I'm halfway through. I love it, even though I don't normally do zombies. You are such a damned kick ass awesome writer, woman. :) And I don't say that to just anybody. Such an awesome page-turner! Such great plot development! Great characters! Great science, though of course I expected no less. ;) Can't get anything else done, damn you!!
*massive hugs*

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Yay!

That makes me happy.

[chuckmck1.livejournal.com]

Woot!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I am makin' progress, yo.

[tig-b.livejournal.com]

Very impressive,
and so good for Seanan fans!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Glee. :)

[oreouk.livejournal.com]

I just finished reading Feed this morning and am in that flailing 'OMG, what a good book' space at the moment. In a perfect moment of timing I also got to put it into the entry I did on Books that EY People Read that our Dutch practice puts on their Library newsletter.

Roll on May 2011. I has me a couple of minor niggles but will probably put them in a (properly spoiler cut) post of my own.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Totally reasonable. And I think niggles are inevitable. Hell, at this remove, I have niggles, and I wrote it.

[tezmillertm.livejournal.com]

Glad you're listening to Kasabian - they're my favourite band :-)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

[archangelbeth]

That's a lotta words! And if it's anything like the first chapter of the first book, it will rock.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I'm fond of it.

[goddesstriad.livejournal.com]

You go girl.:D But I guess it will be at least two or three years before its in print? ...Always hard to wait for the good authors and good stories.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Blackout is scheduled for release in May 2012. Y'know, after the second book comes out. ;)