Current stats:
Words: 8,464.
Total words: 101,114.
Reason for stopping: I sort of, well, ran out of book.
Music: lots of things, mostly Dave and Tracy.
Lilly, Alice, and Thomas: bed, orange cat tree, and beige cat tree, respectively.
First draft stats:
Pages: 347
Chapters: twenty-five, plus a prologue and an epilogue
Started: November 2, 2010
Finished: February 18, 2012
So it turns out that finishing a Toby book and a Mira Grant book and doing lots of conventions and writing another Toby book and a couple of Mira Grant novellas and not sleeping makes me slow. Which is why this book took fifteen months to write (the first one took fourteen months, and I swore that this one would go faster). And yet. I am done with the first draft of Midnight Blue-Light Special, and Discount Armageddon is not yet on shelves, and that means I win.
I am so tired. I am physically and emotionally exhausted, and my eyes hurt because I cried through the last two chapters. But I am done. I am finished.
I will deal with a few pending edits and send the first draft to the Machete Squad tomorrow. But for right now? I sleep.
For right now, I win.
Words: 8,464.
Total words: 101,114.
Reason for stopping: I sort of, well, ran out of book.
Music: lots of things, mostly Dave and Tracy.
Lilly, Alice, and Thomas: bed, orange cat tree, and beige cat tree, respectively.
First draft stats:
Pages: 347
Chapters: twenty-five, plus a prologue and an epilogue
Started: November 2, 2010
Finished: February 18, 2012
So it turns out that finishing a Toby book and a Mira Grant book and doing lots of conventions and writing another Toby book and a couple of Mira Grant novellas and not sleeping makes me slow. Which is why this book took fifteen months to write (the first one took fourteen months, and I swore that this one would go faster). And yet. I am done with the first draft of Midnight Blue-Light Special, and Discount Armageddon is not yet on shelves, and that means I win.
I am so tired. I am physically and emotionally exhausted, and my eyes hurt because I cried through the last two chapters. But I am done. I am finished.
I will deal with a few pending edits and send the first draft to the Machete Squad tomorrow. But for right now? I sleep.
For right now, I win.
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Date: 2012-02-19 05:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-19 07:43 am (UTC)Now is there anyway to convince you to have a rest if you are this tired ?
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Date: 2012-02-19 09:41 am (UTC)Well done! Now, if you can wrest back some of the bed from Lilly, I hope you can get some rest.
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Date: 2012-02-19 11:53 am (UTC)and that means I win
And so do we, but you've always been generous that way :).
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Date: 2012-02-19 04:42 pm (UTC)Sleep well. May your dreams have all the velociraptors and ponies you need.
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Date: 2012-02-19 11:54 pm (UTC)Was this crying because of what was being written, or the sadness of an ending?
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