THE QUEEN’S BASTARD is now Officially The Longest Book I Have Ever Written. I just crossed the threshold of 511 pages, and the HEART OF STONE manuscript, previously the longest book I’d ever written, was 510 pages. Given that that was a final draft after about 234098707 revisions, and this is a rough draft, the truth is that TQB has been the biggest book I’ve ever written for about forty pages now, ever since I passed the length of the HOUSE OF CARDS rough draft at 470ish pages. But this…
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five more miles…
Much, much less painful writing day today. Did 5200 words in about 5 hours, and hit 500 pages. I was kind of planning to finish the damned chapter, but I think the end is another 15 or 20 pages away, and that seemed like Too Much Work. I only have to do this three or four or five more times… Got the COYOTE front matter off. Doing an edit pass on a proposal ‘s putting together (her new book is out today! go! go forth! buy it! details at her…
Remember to send
MUST REMEMBER to send the front material for coyote this evening, or adam will kill me
*splat*
Somewhere around 900 words this morning I caught a cold, and by 1500 words I had to take some cold medicine, which has resulted in a very floaty head. I can’t tell if it’s now wearing off, causing my head to be newly floaty, or … that’s probably it, but man. Woogh. Uh. Man. Having a hard time focusing. Took about 3 hours to get the first thousand words this morning, which was just awful. I seriously wanted to give up and just crawl into bed, which would have been…
like pulling teeth…
One. Slow. Word. After. Another. Forty. Thousand. Times. Having a bit of rough going getting it *one* thousand times, much less forty. I’ve got this sloggy bit here and I’m convinced, CONVINCED I TELL YOU, that if I can just bloody well get through it that the rest of the book will just fall into place and I’ll charge through the writing of it. I think I’ve been thinking that for a hundred and twenty pages… And the aggravating bit right now is that if I’m right and once the…