What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

bring me the sweet release of death

fozmeadows:

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

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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.

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  1. tinybroodinggay reblogged this from fozmeadows
  2. gischtglas said: I bow before your wordcount. You’ve got this!
  3. talopine said: go team!
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  6. vitaganiedae said: My deeply ingrained genetic impulse is to send a casserole.
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  8. jsplayingfavorites said: You are a word champion! You can do the thing!
  9. killapunk said: GOOD LUCK!!!! I KNOW YOU CAN DO IT!!!!!
  10. fozmeadows reblogged this from fozmeadows and added:
    UPDATE: Yesterday I wrote 10,200 words, so thank you for everyone who sent good vibes! It definitely worked. The book...
  11. kissmeagainarthas said: I have faith in your ability to pull something awesome out of thin air!
  12. myriadism said: good luck!!!! you can do it <3