…and that, my friends…

…is one. hundred. thousand. words on this book*. It is not done yet. I have at least two more chapters and possibly as many as five or six. That’s fine, whatever, I don’t care. But hitting 100K feels like a milestone I would never reach. I have revised this book six times to get this far. I have thrown out at *least* fifty thousand words. This is the worst way to write a book EVAR. However, with the exception of one scene which is acceptable in concept but needs work…

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a weird writer thing

So I have no problem being in the same room with someone who is reading one of my books. You know, a properly bound book and all that. If they laugh I want to know what bit they’re laughing at, but that’s no big thing. However. I. Cannot. Stand. To be in a room where someone is reading an actual manuscript. My parents are down to visit and to proof TQB. They’re downstairs reading it. I don’t even like being in the *house*! I want to run away! Blee! Blee!…

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Great!

I left the house today to work at a cafe in pen and paper. Transcription has netted me around 2K words (far more than I wrote) with another couple pages still to transcribe. I may do this again tomorrow. I was not, for the record, asking about whether people would follow the blog because I anticipate some kind of hideous, horrible thing happening because LJ has been bought. I don’t imagine much will change at all, and can at least wish that if things do change they will perhaps change…

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