Well I'm back
Aug. 28th, 2010 10:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maryUm, hi journal-type environment! It's been a week since I updated! Largely this is because I have been writing Wolf House at any moment I wasn't studying, working, or sleeping -- and I skipped a bunch of the sleeping, too, which was an adventure I will not soon repeat by choice.
But after a week of telling twitter that writing is hard, writing is hard, why did I ever decide to do this, oh god life is pain... I have finished book 5. I don't know how long the final count is, but when I last checked it was twice as long as any of the other books. Which means it didn't actually make my workload any easier by paring the series back from an intended six to five, ha. But I'm glad I finished it with this one, with these point-of-view characters. I feel like I got where I was trying to go, and even if it's not perfect, it's a damn sight better than I expected it to be.
Except that, shit, now that I'm mostly done with the writing, I no longer have an excuse for not doing PR work about 'em. Urrgh. That'll be, um. Fun.
This whole thing started sitting with Audrey in the middle of the night in April of 2007. The adventure's not finished yet, of course, but I feel like it was apt that I wrote the last words of the main guts of it sitting with Audrey in the middle of the night, here in August 2010. Some things change, some don't.
Um, other news... I have a million billion trillion assignments to do! What a buzzkill, man. But when you've just written five novels it's hard to get too stressed out about eight thousand words of essays due. Bring 'em on, baby, I can do that with my eyes shut.
Plans for the LA trip are coming together, wheee! Lindsey is so awesome that her awesomes have awesomes attached. And SUNNY WEATHER AAAAH. WARMTH. I REMEMBER THAT. I CANNOT WAIT.
But after a week of telling twitter that writing is hard, writing is hard, why did I ever decide to do this, oh god life is pain... I have finished book 5. I don't know how long the final count is, but when I last checked it was twice as long as any of the other books. Which means it didn't actually make my workload any easier by paring the series back from an intended six to five, ha. But I'm glad I finished it with this one, with these point-of-view characters. I feel like I got where I was trying to go, and even if it's not perfect, it's a damn sight better than I expected it to be.
Except that, shit, now that I'm mostly done with the writing, I no longer have an excuse for not doing PR work about 'em. Urrgh. That'll be, um. Fun.
This whole thing started sitting with Audrey in the middle of the night in April of 2007. The adventure's not finished yet, of course, but I feel like it was apt that I wrote the last words of the main guts of it sitting with Audrey in the middle of the night, here in August 2010. Some things change, some don't.
Um, other news... I have a million billion trillion assignments to do! What a buzzkill, man. But when you've just written five novels it's hard to get too stressed out about eight thousand words of essays due. Bring 'em on, baby, I can do that with my eyes shut.
Plans for the LA trip are coming together, wheee! Lindsey is so awesome that her awesomes have awesomes attached. And SUNNY WEATHER AAAAH. WARMTH. I REMEMBER THAT. I CANNOT WAIT.