First draft stats -- BLACKOUT.
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seanan_mcguireDate started: September 14th, 2010.
Date finished: July 10th, 2011.
Total words: 165,481.
Total pages: 605.
Total chapters: Forty.
Well, that's that. It's done. Three books. More than three years. My first finished series. And while this is only the first draft, it will go quickly through the next few cycles, becoming a finished book in the time it takes to blink. And then it will be over.
Mira Grant was born after this series. Newsflesh became Feed; a standalone became a trilogy; "that zombie novel Seanan keeps threatening to write" became the book that would get me nominated for a Hugo award. The Masons and their friends and their enemies and the science and the politics and the zombies, it all became...
It became...
It became so much bigger than I ever dreamed it was going to become. I am so grateful. I am so sad that it's over.
Alive or dead, the truth won't rest.
Rise up while you can.
Date finished: July 10th, 2011.
Total words: 165,481.
Total pages: 605.
Total chapters: Forty.
Well, that's that. It's done. Three books. More than three years. My first finished series. And while this is only the first draft, it will go quickly through the next few cycles, becoming a finished book in the time it takes to blink. And then it will be over.
Mira Grant was born after this series. Newsflesh became Feed; a standalone became a trilogy; "that zombie novel Seanan keeps threatening to write" became the book that would get me nominated for a Hugo award. The Masons and their friends and their enemies and the science and the politics and the zombies, it all became...
It became...
It became so much bigger than I ever dreamed it was going to become. I am so grateful. I am so sad that it's over.
Alive or dead, the truth won't rest.
Rise up while you can.
