hi yes so as some of you may know from my twitter bitching, I am currently on Mega Deadline of Doom to finish the sequel to An Accident of Stars, which is due in the next four days and is not yet done
that distant mosquito noise you hear is my INTERNAL SCREAMING
because the thing is, I have a toddler, and I don’t know if you’ve got much experience with the species, but they are NOT conducive to getting work done; however, I also have a spouse who will mind said spawn tomorrow while I go to the university library and type until I collapse, frothing at the mouth and yelling about continuity
so while I technically have four days left, in every practical sense I have one, i.e. TOMORROW, and let me tell you I’m gonna be trying to pull at least a solid 10k out of my ass, which is technically possible but not necessarily likely
(my record for words written in a single 24 hour period is 17k, when I was finishing An Accident of Stars; never let it be said that I am not, on occasion, fucking crazy)
basically the ms right now is a smidge under 96k words, all of which has effectively been written over - if I consult my calendar/wordcount records - 54 days since April 18th, which averages out to roughly 1700 words a day, for each of those days, because the past thirteen months have been a clusterfuck of depression and childcare and moving countries and househunting and waiting for furniture to be shipped and international con attendance, and now I have no more time
so if you felt moved to offer up a small prayer for my being productive tomorrow to the deity, universal function or anthropomorphic entity of your choice, I would greatly appreciate it, because at this point I’ll take whatever advantages I can get, and also I would like not to spend my wedding anniversary, which is this week, in a state of authorial despair
tl;dr: I AM THE LIZARD QUEEN
UPDATE:
Yesterday I wrote 10,200 words, so thank you for everyone who sent good vibes! It definitely worked. The book still isn’t finished, but I’m a metric fucktonne closer than I was.
Now I just have to manage about 20k more over the next three evenings.