quick note

I was going to say “quick note, not wordcount-related”, but that’s not true, as I’ve now blown past the halfway mark in the book, so yay me. The 2/3rds mark feels Very Far Away right now, which is sort of depressing. (It’s not *that* far away, about 13.5K, but that feels like a lot just now.) But on the positive side, I’m vacillating between “oh god, I don’t have enough book left for this story” and “oh god, I don’t have enough story left for this book”, which may not…

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blossoms!

We have wee little apple blossoms on our apple tree! And a wee small rhubarb popping up! Hooray! Woot! The fifth Walker Papers books has a title! It will be DEMON HUNTS, and I am having a very good time writing it right now. Yay! Dude. You guys came up with some fantastic casting choices for the Negotiator trilogy. I wish I had about fifteen copies of the anthology to send out, because you did *not* make this an easy choice! I’m going to have to do something cool for…

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*happy*

I have just finished writing the scene you didn’t even know you were waiting for, but can’t wait to read, and I am Happy. ♥

oh NOT BLOODY FAIR!

I have been working ALL DAY on a VERY SLOW chapter with no fastness in the writing at ALL and I have FINALLY finished it and now I’ve discovered that I am 149 words away from 30K on the book. ARGH! *goes to write another 150 words, grumpily* eta: there. for pity’s sake. another 289 words, the book is past 30K, and I wrote like 3800 words today. I’m going for some ice cream, man. *grinchy face* ytd wordcount: 104,100 miles to Minas Tirith: 175.5

what, was it too hard?

Was yesterday’s contest thingy too hard, or is everybody off doing non-internet-related things? V. few responses! Or maybe it’s just nobody’s read TQB… :) I’m going to go start work on the latest Walker Papers (which is currently untitled and will therefore be referred to as Jo Vs. The Cannibals until it gets a title) in a few minutes. “Start work” in this case may mean “going to go re-write the synopsis in much more detail, because it has occurred to me that the books that have gone most smoothly…

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