It’s coming. It’s long and bone-chillingly confessional. It’s almost here. But not yet.
The reason it’s not here yet is that I’m working frantically on The Magician King. Some fun facts about this as-yet-unfinished book:
– It was due at the publisher six (6) days ago
– It is currently 105,850 words long. I would guess I’ve got somewhere between 35 and 40,000 words to go.
– I expect I’ll have a decent draft by the end of October.
– I have suspended any attempts to control my caffeine intake during the month of October
– These days it is mostly getting written in this armchair:
– On a good day work goes from about 10 in the morning to about 8 at night. That’s a good day. What happens on a bad day? There are no bad days! Who are you? Get out of my office!
– Bands I’m listening to while I work on it include Metric, The Beta Band and Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians
– There is a small creature who lives in my house who actively sabotages work on my book. She looks like this:
Scary, right?
She is so cute! And oddly shiny.
I know. She may be a vampire.
look at that stare!! she’s seeing through all of your facades.
Your little saboteur is adorable. She stares well.
She’s beautiful! If she is as good a saboteur as my 5 (geez! how’d THAT happen??) you are doomed…
She is precious. And here’s reason #492 why you are a published author and I am not. I’d be holding the baby and leaving the book unfinished, depriving the world of The Magician King, which would be sad.
Lev, she is seriously beautiful. Also, she looks like she Knows Things.
great post! too funny…
Write strong, Lev. Write big.
I love your honesty about the process of being a writer. Especially in light of all the fears, obstacles, and loves a writer may feel on any given day from 10-8 pm. It must be an act of love or how can it be. Break a leg, (mozol tov in finishing your book. Gregory D. Rothbard
i refrain from doing this in public
but
“LOOK AT THE CUTE BABYYY!!!”
and so on
[...] count: 113,321. Which actually isn’t that much higher than when I posted about this a week and a half ago (it was 105,850 then). But these words are of significantly higher quality than those old words. [...]
Just so you know, I totally used this picture to sway my book club to read The Magicians. “You wouldn’t want to take food out of this child’s mouth, would you?”
@church The system works! I love that picture. She looks like the hypnotoad.