Let’s Write the Seanan McGuire Way!

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Be warned. I am seriously jumped up. I don't know if it's better nutrition, or just overall happiness. Tonight is a kind of weeee!!! night.

In addition to Oliver Toddle and his pleasant reception today, I've gotten some good news that I can't tell you about because right now it is nothing real.

Coy is not a fair way to play with Tamago readers, but after a certain point in my author journey, I've decided not to thrill you with every almost that comes my way. The first few photos of baby walking were cute, but you don't want to sit through a whole album of the same picture. we all know how this works, because we've all been close to some almosts.

This is a pretty damned cool almost, though. I would especially like to thank Maggie Stiefvater for this almost. Even if nothing happens.

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As bouncy as I am tonight, I am having trouble working on the troll novel. Last night I was doing angsty Quartz stuff, and, well, happy is definitely the wrong mood to write that in, and I don't want to let this one go.

I'm going to try a new experiment in the interest of writing by the pound (all praise to Saint Julia, goddess of writing by the pound). Sometimes my brain needs to stop writing to do a little sorting, brainstorming, or problem solving. What I often do is lie fallow while this happens.

Then there's Seanan McGuire. Seanan works nonstop, like a golem. A sparkling, 10-carat, diamond golem. And what she does is that when she runs into a corner, she works on another thing. Let me show you a link to Seanan's most recent works in progress list.

*blinks*

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