Comments | mizkit: holy carp.

mizkit

holy carp.

Nov 21, 2006 14:33

I've just turned in THE QUEEN'S BASTARD, which came in at 139,000 words. I sent it to my editor with the subject line of, "slightly late, but geologically speaking, right on time," which she thought was funny. :) I have to go get heavier paper to do the actual printout for submission, but it's TURNED IN ( Read more... )

writing, work, done done done!

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bellinghman November 21 2006, 14:47:02 UTC

Couldn't you just take him to Paris anyway? I'm sure he's been a sweetie enough over the past ten years to deserve it.

(Of course, you may get a better meal if you make him cook it rather than go all that way, but what the heck.)

mizkit November 21 2006, 14:56:03 UTC

No, the whole idea is I have to reach 400K. Going to Paris for dinner is my (our) reward for me writing that much. :)

bellinghman November 21 2006, 15:42:39 UTC

*grin*

That's a hell of a lot of writing, though.

And I just got the email that Thunderbird Falls and Urban Shaman have been dispatched, together with papersky's Tooth and Claw. Yay!

You submit on actual paper? dtm November 21 2006, 14:54:10 UTC

I don't understand this idea that you need to convert electrons into ink on paper. Why isn't printing it out nicely the job of your editor and/or publisher? After all, they're going to reformat it and reflow it however they want anyway when they turn it into compressed wood pulp objects for the mass market, right?

And, given that, I don't understand this distinction between "submission" that requires paper and "turned in" that apparently does not.

Re: You submit on actual paper? mizkit November 21 2006, 14:55:22 UTC

Don't be difficult. :)

jaylake November 21 2006, 15:16:41 UTC

Yay you.

mylescorcoran November 21 2006, 16:41:10 UTC

Wow. That's metric tonne of writing.

[makes awed noises]

Paris is in your sights!

dqg_neal November 21 2006, 20:42:38 UTC

Oh, on the side note of too much information...

While a lot of writing...assuming 250 words per page, it requires approximately 55 million words to fill a metric ton of paper.

And that was my brain regurgitating the useless data for the day.

On the bright side, I'd probably bring my wife to Paris for a meal after the sale of my first book... and it would probably cost me all the money I got as an advance to do it. *sigh*

sanguinepen November 21 2006, 18:27:03 UTC

That's cool of you to share you schedule. I'm hoping to have to write by one too someday. :)