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Words: 14,505.
Total words: 25,647.
Reason for stopping: ...uh. I think my brain just ran out my ears.
The cats: All three, eating. Mom fed them to make them stop circling my ankles.
Music: random shuffle, mostly Glee MP3s and modern country.

Um. I appear to have just written more than 14,000 words in a single day, with a break in the middle to walk to the grocery store (and another break to eat dinner, a lovely salmon and nectarine salad). I just what I don't even what. I feel like this book got tired of living inside my head and decided to get out with a jackhammer, if that was what it took.

I also feel, sadly, like this is me finally finding equilibrium with being home all day (I had the memorial service, and then I had two sick days, when my body simply said "okay, that's it, we're done" and shut down). So I have hit my groove, I have found my sweet spot...and I get to go back to work on Monday. Which is going to reset things all over again.

But in the end, that's okay, because I added the equivalent of two full short stories to this book today. And I'm going to try to do the same, or close to the same, tomorrow, allowing me to spend Monday night working on actual short stories while the Machete Squad recoils in terror from their inboxes.

Bed now.

Bed FOREVER.

Date: 2012-07-08 05:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scarybaldguy.livejournal.com
Hail the Priestess of Unprecedented Wordsmithing and the Festival of Bed Forever!

Date: 2012-07-08 11:25 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] laurenthemself
Hail!

Date: 2012-07-09 05:27 pm (UTC)

Date: 2012-07-08 05:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jess-faraday.livejournal.com
14K in one day?

You officially win writing. ::impressed::

Date: 2012-07-09 05:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
I'm a little stunned myself.

Date: 2012-07-08 06:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] herewiss13.livejournal.com
As a reward for good behavior, you've apparently been picked as "writer of the world" by Making Light (no, not an award, just a descriptor):

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014134.html

Date: 2012-07-08 02:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pickledginger.livejournal.com
Oh, you beat me to it!
http://makinglight.livejournal.com/712226.html

All hail the author of our world's woes?

Date: 2012-07-08 03:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladymondegreen.livejournal.com
I find the comment where someone comments on your recurring fear that everything since December of 2008 has been a dream to be recursively meta, but kind-of reassuring.

Date: 2012-07-09 05:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
I saw that!

Hee.

Date: 2012-07-08 06:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angharadd.livejournal.com
Oh wow, that's... a lot of words.

Date: 2012-07-09 05:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
Yeah, seriously.

Date: 2012-07-08 07:25 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ironed_orchid
That is impressive.

Date: 2012-07-09 05:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
10% of a Toby book in one day!

Date: 2012-07-08 07:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonsally.livejournal.com
I'm feeling for your poor hands - that's a lot of words.

Date: 2012-07-08 03:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pickledginger.livejournal.com
Point. Those forearms probably are still aching for an ice bath.

Date: 2012-07-09 05:28 pm (UTC)

Date: 2012-07-08 01:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tenebrosia.livejournal.com
Well done, that's a fantastic word-count!

Date: 2012-07-09 05:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
I'm chuffed.

Date: 2012-07-08 01:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kimuro.livejournal.com
Wow.

I'm impressed. That's ...

Wow.

Date: 2012-07-09 05:29 pm (UTC)

Date: 2012-07-08 03:48 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] archangelbeth
That is a huge word-count, from my point of view, and the only thing to do is quietly wave pompoms while you collapse in the bed.

Date: 2012-07-09 05:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
It's a huge word count from my point of view, too.
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Date: 2012-07-09 05:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
I am a non-Newtonian fluid.

Date: 2012-07-08 04:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vincentursus.livejournal.com
Wow.

That's amazing.

Date: 2012-07-09 05:30 pm (UTC)

Date: 2012-07-08 05:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pointedulac.livejournal.com
You are a writing machine. It's amazing. Stupid work on monday messing with your groove though.

Date: 2012-07-09 05:30 pm (UTC)

Date: 2012-07-08 10:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhoda-rants.livejournal.com
Um. I appear to have just written more than 14,000 words in a single day

0_0

My mind, it boggles.

Date: 2012-07-09 05:30 pm (UTC)

Date: 2012-07-08 10:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yellowblackhaze.livejournal.com
14,000 words in a day? That's just phenomenal.

Date: 2012-07-09 05:32 pm (UTC)

Date: 2012-07-09 03:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melchar.livejournal.com
All hail the Day of the Much Abused Keyboard and Leavening Agent of Paper Reams! ... This day shall be celebrated with alphabet cereal ... unless we can get cake!

Date: 2012-07-09 05:32 pm (UTC)

Date: 2012-07-09 04:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] celticdragonfly.livejournal.com
Um. Wow. Enjoy bed. I am a bit out of touch just now - memorial service? I wish you well with whatever it is you are going through.

I was seeing a post about a Blizzard panel at this Comicon, and thinking ah, poor Comicon, only two more years to go.

Date: 2012-07-09 05:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
And then the zombies come!

Date: 2012-07-09 04:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vettecat.livejournal.com
Bed FOREVER.
Let's wait on that for a while...

Date: 2012-07-09 05:32 pm (UTC)

Date: 2012-07-10 02:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashi.livejournal.com
Wow. I'm happy when I can read that many in a day. Though I did make it through reading Blackout in 2 days... :)

Date: 2012-07-19 03:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com
I'm still a little staggered.

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