Word count -- BLACKOUT.

[seanan_mcguire]

Words: 7,010.
Total words: 50,805.
Reason for stopping: finished chapter eleven. I need to pause.
Music: random shuffle, lots of angry Goth rock.
Cats: Alice, sitting in the hall; Lilly, sleeping in my underwear drawer; Thomas, flat on the bed, cuddling his squid.

Okay, that was...a lull, brought on by needing to hammer my way through the editorial revisions of One Salt Sea. But I'm back on track now, and have broken both 50,000 words and 175 pages. Also, the phrase "zombie bear" is not inaccurate. I'm just saying. And I got to give another example of a weird post-zombie legal decision. It's sad that the legal system of this world fascinates me the way that it does, but imagine being on the Supreme Court when the first of these cases started showing up!

I have the upcoming weekend totally free, followed by a weekend full of book release party chaos. I believe that I can be calm about not doing any work next weekend if I can hit 70,000 words by the end of this weekend. So that's my totally reasonable, not-insane-at-all goal. 70,000 words by the end of the weekend.

There is something wrong with the way my brain is wired, I swear.

Comments

[beccastareyes]

I just picture some appointed-pre-Rising Supreme Court judge going 'I spent decades arguing constitutional law, got to the highest court in the land, and now I have to listen to someone argue about whether we can allow blood tests for the zombie plague at polling stations'.

[azurelunatic]

I imagine that there is now a Constitutional amendment about prioritizing the survival of humanity as a whole.

[ashabardon.livejournal.com]

Oddly one of the things I like about Newsflesh are the weird legal examples :D

Ooooh Blackout ... can't wait!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Yeah, pretty much.

[sheistheweather]

I don't think it's sad that the legalities of the Newsflesh world fascinate you. It fascinates many of us as well. :)

[yellowblackhaze.livejournal.com]

If you're personally interested in the legal complexities of the post-zombie world you've created I think it tends to make that world more real for the readers.

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

At the very least, I can state that it does so for one reader. The rest of the readership will have to decide for themselves

[keristor.livejournal.com]

This is one of the things I like about Seanan's writing, she thinks about this stuff for all of her stories, so they do hang together and 'work'.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

True!

[ambelies.livejournal.com]

The phrase "zombie bear" is making me think about a zombie teddy bear. Complete with detachable limbs and a half eaten deer.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Cute but horrible!

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Just so you know...

doctor said it wasn't pneumonia. He thinks it's allergies.

But I'm becoming convinced that my body is trying to spontaneously convert.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Um...

...yay?

Feel better.

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Still able to type in full sentences. Pupils at normal dialation. No fever currently. It appears I have not contracted KA yet.

[glam-k.livejournal.com]

It isn't every day that you can string together the words "cuddling his squid" and thrust them into a sentence, you know. (Well, outside of Dr. Seuss. And that's a whole 'nother kettle of red fish, blue fish...)

Teh kittehs: there's nothing they don't make better. :D

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

So true.

[saoba.livejournal.com]

Thomas and The Squid Cuddlers should be the name of a band.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

They play aqua punk.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I Am Legend is best viewed as the aftermath of a successful act of bioterrorism.

Stupid Amazon stuff

[keristor.livejournal.com]

OK, this confused me. Or rather Amazon UK did. Because on my orders page is an order for "Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy" due to be delivered on 6 June 2011, and so when I saw your post I was thinking "that will be some very fast writing!"

When I click the link on that Amazon order, it actually takes me to the page for "Deadline". So I really hope that they will actually be sending me that in June.

I swear Amazon's website organisation is getting worse every time I look at it, and soon tey are going to fail completely...

Re: Stupid Amazon stuff

[pola-bear.livejournal.com]

They swapped the names, but the preorder page for the second book as Blackout was already up when this happened, so that's probably where the problem emerged. I plan to buy Deadline in a real bookshop, because I can and it supports the idea of these books being published in the UK more than Amazon (as the Newsflesh books are actually being published over here).

Re: Stupid Amazon stuff

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

It's Orbit's fault this time, sadly. But all will be well.

[qnofhrt.livejournal.com]

Current music: Prince, "Cinnamon Girl."

As in Prince singing Neil Young??

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I s'pose. Is that a Neil Young song?

[qnofhrt.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6GH_tA77cw

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Huh.

[jslinder.livejournal.com]

Speaking of Amazon, One Salt Sea is up for Pre-Order (dead tree edition only so far)..

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I saw that. Cheese and crackers.

[ladytinyhelm.livejournal.com]

Just finished rereading Feed today (amazing as ever). My levels of excitement for this series are reaching epic squirmy levels. :D

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Hee. Yay.