Wednesday, April 11, 2012

FINISHED!

I don't dance around kitchens. But if I did, I'd be dancing around my kitchen right now.

I'm finished the book.

It's only the first draft, granted. And I've finished it twelve days after I expected to be finished, also granted. And with the schedule so horrendously packed, I'm gonna have to start the edit by Sunday. But none of that takes away from the fact that I have finished Kingdom of the Wicked, and I am one happy writer-bunny.

My editor called this afternoon. He'd read most of it, and was just calling to give me the thumbs up. This, I have to say, was a relief. I've never written a book as quickly as I did this one, so I was worried that the quality might slip. Apparently it hasn't. This makes me happy. It's also LONGER than any of the others. Please keep in mind that the finished product might be significantly shorter, but at the moment this one is clocking in at 130,000 words- that's about 12,000 words longer than Death Bringer.

I am so, so drained. I need to play video games. I need to watch movies. I need to spend more than an hour away from my computer. But despite how drained I feel, I am buzzing with that wonderful, wonderful feeling of accomplishment that I always get when I finish a book. I am truly great.


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Lavender Hope said...

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Sparky Braginski said...

Please.

Sparky Braginski said...

Uh...

Lav?

Lavender Hope said...

*laughs at failed attempt*
Guess that didn't work.

Sparky Braginski said...

Zathract?

Zathract Mist said...

Yes?

Lavender Hope said...

*gives up trying*
*sighs*
Mom's home, will be distant.

Sparky Braginski said...

Are you okay?

Zathract Mist said...

...

No.

Maybe.

I don't know!

*hurls second dagger at a tree*

Sparky Braginski said...

Uh...

Zathract Mist said...

What?

Sparky Braginski said...

That was just a little unexpected...

Sparky Braginski said...

*groans*

Zathract Mist said...

Aren't most things I do?

Sparky Braginski said...

Eh.

Lavender Hope said...

*notices*
Eve was gone more than an hour...

Zathract Mist said...

Reaction is up.
Whoop-dee-doo.

*growls*
*picks daggers back up and vanishes*

Lavender Hope said...

*tries to make more shapes with symbols*
*gives up on third attempt*
*sighs*

Zathract Mist said...

Hope. Email.

Zathract Mist said...

...SOMEONE SAY SOMETHING.

Zathract Mist said...

Damn you Caps Lock!

Lavender Hope said...
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Lavender Hope said...

...
*mutters*
stupid reason...

Lavender Hope said...

Oh, NOW I get the email for Pottermore. humph.

Zathract Mist said...

I didn't see the reason. Please reply to the email, Hope...

Lavender Hope said...

Well, I didn't even SAY the reason yet, so I WILL reply to the email to tell you. Bet you'll just laugh...

Lavender Hope said...

I don't even know if I WANT to give the reason...

So stupid...

Zathract Mist said...

Can you just send it please?

*is now waiting for an email from PotterMore*

...

Lavender Hope said...

Sent now.

*gets a new email from Pottermore*

Zathract Mist said...

Replied.

Lavender Hope said...

...

replied...

Zathract Mist said...

Replied again.

*punches a tree and waits for the email from Pottermore*

Lavender Hope said...

Saw it. Okay Mist.
*manages a small smile*

Lavender Hope said...

Oh, and thank you. :)

Sparky Braginski said...

Hello...

Zathract Mist said...

*growls*

I. Hate. My. Internet. Connection.

Zathract Mist said...

Oh, good it's working again.

No problem Hope.

Zathract Mist said...

...Hello, Sparky.

Lavender Hope said...

Hi Sparky. :)

Zathract Mist said...

Well this is a moving conversation.

Sparky Braginski said...

Mm...

*attention is elsewhere*

Lavender Hope said...

I was just going to say how quiet it was, then I refreshed the page...

Lavender Hope said...

Still, I'm distant...

Didn't I say I was distant already? Well, I still am.

Just so you know.

Zathract Mist said...

Okay.

Zathract Mist said...

I'm not angry at you anymore, Sparky.

It got boring.

Sparky Braginski said...

Then can you tell me why you were mad before?

Zathract Mist said...

...Um...

...No. I'd rather not...

Sparky Braginski said...

Please do.

Sparky Braginski said...

E-mail, Zathract.

Zathract Mist said...

Checking.

Zathract Mist said...

Replied.

Nixion Strange said...

nah nah nah nah nah

Zathract Mist said...

Hi to you too, Nix.

Sparky Braginski said...

Haven't gotten anything yet....

Lavender Hope said...

Hello, Nix! :)

Zathract Mist said...

I sent it...

Sparky Braginski said...

Still haven't gotten it...

Sparky Braginski said...

Replied Zathract.

Eve the ROCK said...

Wow. That was a long second Easter.

Nixion Strange said...

longer then the first?
Hi Eve

Lavender Hope said...

Hi again Eve!

That was more than an hour.
*smiles jokingly*

Eve the ROCK said...

I think so, yes.

Mist, hi! *hugs*

Zathract Mist said...

*bangs head on a tree hard*

Hi, Eve. *hugs back*

*slams head into tree again*

Eve the ROCK said...

Yes, well, Mum said we were going back home two hours ago. Yeah.

Eve the ROCK said...

Mist, what's wrong?

Zathract Mist said...

Replied....

Nixion Strange said...

i forgive to easily...

Zathract Mist said...

Nothing.

Ish.

Nixion Strange said...

i'm strange...

Eve the ROCK said...

*looks at Mist worriedly*

Nixion Strange said...

i'm exsane... or outsane, depending on yur outlook
...

Lavender Hope said...

You are Strange. Nixion Strange. :P

:)

Nixion Strange said...

that be me point
dar-doo dar-doo

Zathract Mist said...

I give...
What I need to give...
I take...
What I need to take...
I live how I see fit...
I choose to follow through.

Eve the ROCK said...

Um...

Zathract Mist said...

It's a song...

Zathract Mist said...

Sparky?

Eve the ROCK said...

*nods*

Nixion Strange said...

why is the rum gone?

Lavender Hope said...

What's the song called, Mist?

Eve the ROCK said...

You keep saying that...

Zathract Mist said...

Crime by Art of Dying.

Zathract Mist said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BnD7XqfBw4

Zathract Mist said...

*sighs*

I'm assuming Sparky isn't here anymore then.

*punches the tree*

*waits*

...

Better. OKAY.

*turns to Eve*

Hi! How was...where ever you went?

Eve the ROCK said...

*brightens* I went to visit relatives for Greek Easter! And I will never eat again!

Sparky Braginski said...

Replied.

Lavender Hope said...

I think Sparky's internet died...

She just signed onto Skype, but I think it was automatic whenever internet is detected.

Sparky Braginski said...

No, I shut my laptop and practised my trombone.

Lavender Hope said...

*looks quizzically at Eve*
Sparky's back, or she never left. :)

Zathract Mist said...

*laughs*

*reads email*

*stops laughing*

*sighs*

Yeah, yeah, whatever. Replied.

*stands still for the knives*

Lavender Hope said...

Oh, okay then. :)

Eve the ROCK said...

Why so quizzical, Lav?

Knives?

Zathract Mist said...

*nods*

The knives. Sparky is going to hate me now.

Sparky Braginski said...

*eyebrows slowly rise up my forehead*

...Replied.

Eve the ROCK said...

Oh. Right. I need more water. *takes a sip of water*

Zathract Mist said...

...Replied.

Eve the ROCK said...
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Zathract Mist said...

That wasn't funny...

Lavender Hope said...

Greek Easter? What's that like?

And you will never eat again? What do you mean?

That's why I looked quizzical.

Eve the ROCK said...

I know. *hangs head shamefully*

Amanda Moore/China Sorrows, now Zinnia Batty said...

*sucks in air*


I cannot breathe....

Zathract Mist said...

*feels bad*

...

*badDER*

Zathract Mist said...

Hi Val...

Amanda Moore/China Sorrows, now Zinnia Batty said...

It's Val, by the way



Amanda will pay...

Zathract Mist said...

Does anyone particularly want first?

Nixion Strange said...

Hi Val

Lavender Hope said...

Hi Val. :)

Amanda Moore/China Sorrows, now Zinnia Batty said...

Hey Mist. I'm still dying...

Zathract Mist said...

*hands her an oxygen mask*

Zathract Mist said...

4800th

Eve the ROCK said...

Greek Easter is just Easter when Greek people have it. You paint boiled eggs and you choose one. Then you crack it against other peoples eggs and if the paint coating on yours doesn't crack at all, then you win. Yeah.

And my uncle and aunty, they ask you if you want a pork chop, and you say no thanks, and they give you two anyway. And they aren't happy until your plate is empty. It's torture. That's why I'll never eat again.

Nixion Strange said...

that was risky Mist

Lavender Hope said...

Yay, Eve! :)

Zathract Mist said...

I don't really care, Nix. I'm just waiting for the knives.

Amanda Moore/China Sorrows, now Zinnia Batty said...

I celebrate greek easter too


And an oxygen mask won't help when it's the fact that I think my oxygen is being cut off...

Eve the ROCK said...

Oh, okay.


I dedicate this page to Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiist!

And annoyingness!

And the fact that I am FINALLY ahead of Mist!

Zathract Mist said...

Then start breathing...

Lavender Hope said...

*just now reads comment*
The egg game sounds fun, and the food MUST have been torture.
*nods*

Zathract Mist said...

By one page. I was ahead by 15 pages before the start of the week.

Zathract Mist said...

And thanks, by the way. :)

Lavender Hope said...

Still distant btw...

Eve the ROCK said...

Yeah, but my egg never wins. :(

Amanda Moore/China Sorrows, now Zinnia Batty said...

stupid comment window...

Eve the ROCK said...

Exactly! Look how far I've come!

Zathract Mist said...
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Amanda Moore/China Sorrows, now Zinnia Batty said...

I can't breathe because Amanda forced me to put on the tightest dress ever and I swear it's cutting off my oxygen, but I can't just pull it off because that'd just be weird

Zathract Mist said...

You have done well, my young apprentice. Come far, have you, in the ancient art of first-getting.

Eve the ROCK said...

*folds arms and pouts* Let me have my victory!

Zathract Mist said...

Then get a towel, wrap it around yourself and THEN take the dress off.

Eve the ROCK said...

*points to deleted comment* Too late! I saw it! Be ashamed!

Zathract Mist said...

*is ashamed*

You may throw your knives now.

*is still waiting for Sparky to kill me anyway*

Eve the ROCK said...

I'm an apprentice? *does irritating super-confused face*

Amanda Moore/China Sorrows, now Zinnia Batty said...

I have to go now... bye!



(By the way, Eve, Amanda thinks your the creepiest person here and it's really funny)

Zathract Mist said...

Bye, Val.

Zathract Mist said...

*reads email*

...

...

...

Huh?

Eve the ROCK said...

I'm not throwing any knifes. Im saving them all for my excorcism ceremony for Kelvin when he gets possessed again.

Nixion Strange said...

bye Val

Eve the ROCK said...

I'm coming for you, Amanda...! *throws scalpels at her computer screen with mind*

Zathract Mist said...

Replied.

Eve the ROCK said...

Oh, and bye Valereno.

Eve the ROCK said...

Have you noticed how many comments I post that are just impossible to respond to?

Don't say no, I'm giving you an excuse to ignore me. Coz you didn't have one before...*waves fist angrily at everyone*

Lavender Hope said...

Bye Val!

Like I said, distant... very.

Zathract Mist said...

*tackles Eve*

Eve the ROCK said...

*laughs and gets tackled*

Eve the ROCK said...

Okesy, lav

Sparky Braginski said...

Not gonna kill you Zathract.

Nixion Strange said...

im watching ERBOH season 2

Zathract Mist said...

*pins Eve to the ground*

Yeah, I figured...But I still don't understand why you aren't angry at least...

Eve the ROCK said...

It took me two seconds to figure out what that stands for! A new record!

Nixion Strange said...

Two seconds!
*crowd cheering*

Nixion Strange said...

where did they even come from...?

Eve the ROCK said...

*struggles uselessly* It's times like these where I wish I had super strength.

Eve the ROCK said...

From Smurf Villiage, of course!

Zathract Mist said...

You do have super strength!

Eve the ROCK said...

I do? *pushes Mist off easily and sends him flying into the lake* I do!

Zathract Mist said...

*lands in the lake hard and doesn't resurface*

Lavender Hope said...

*laughs as Mist goes flying*
Wow Eve!

Eve the ROCK said...

*shrieks and dives into lake*

*pulls Mist out using super strength*

Lavender Hope said...

Ah, Mist not surfacing isn't very good...

Lavender Hope said...

My comments one comment too late. Ignore me.

Eve the ROCK said...

*drags him to dry land*

Nixion Strange said...

Hi Lynxia!

Eve the ROCK said...

Hi Lynxia!

Lavender Hope said...

Hi Lynxia who's comments are disappearing again and that I didn't get to see before it did! Hi! :)

Heh, sorry for the title.

Eve the ROCK said...

*chucks him into superdryer*

Eve the ROCK said...

...

*takes him out of superdryer and takes him into treehouse*

*lays him down on couch*

Lynxia Lost said...

Hi!

I don't wanna go to school tomorrow...

Lynxia Lost said...

Hi!

I don't wanna go to school tomorrow...

Eve the ROCK said...

Ha ha! Igo back in a week!

Nixion Strange said...

go on wednesday

Nixion Strange said...

Movie Villain Medley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExAt1pQ9IwE&feature=relmfu

This is weird...

Lavender Hope said...

I already went back...

Weekend now. Saturday.

Lynxia Lost said...

Lucky. I'd give anything for those extra two days. Well... Not anything.

Lynxia Lost said...

Already seen it Nix . Paint is amazing!!!

Lynxia Lost said...

Already seen it Nix . Paint is amazing!!!

Eve the ROCK said...

Eep! Gtg

Be back soon!

*kisses Mist on the forehead and bursts into oblivion*

Nixion Strange said...

I like Harry Potter in88 seconds best though

Nixion Strange said...

*99

Nixion Strange said...

Bye Eve

Lavender Hope said...

Bye Eve!

Nixion Strange said...

brb

Sparky Braginski said...

OMGG IN FINALLY KNOW WHAT HOUSE I'M IN!!!!!!!!

Nixion Strange said...

what are you talking about?

Lynxia Lost said...

Which house? I was one of the trial. Slytherin!

Lavender Hope said...

Cool, Sparky! I'm still in Diagon Ally!

Lavender Hope said...

Cool, Lynxia! Beta tester? Lucky!

Lavender Hope said...

No offense, but I hope I don't get Slytherin...

Nixion Strange said...

Oh, pottermore
Is it working again?

Lavender Hope said...

We're playing Pottermore, Nix. It's cool! And I'm finally on chapter 4! Diagon Ally! :D

Nixion Strange said...

im signing up now

Zathract Mist said...

I STILL HAVEN'T GOT THE EMAIL YET. AAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHH.

Lavender Hope said...

What animal did you guys get? I'm still choosing and I'm not sure...

Animal is the last on the list before I get a wand!

Zathract Mist said...

Aw, Eve left.

Bye, Eve!

Lavender Hope said...

Okay, I've chosen a tabby cat for me. :)

Nixion Strange said...

now i have to wait for an email...

Zathract Mist said...

I GOT IT!

YAAAAAAAAAAAY!

*goes to read email*

Sparky Braginski said...

GRYFFINDOR!!!

I'M IN GRYFFINDOR!!!!

Nixion Strange said...

told you that you're a Gryfindor

Zathract Mist said...

GUYS. WHAT ARE YOU USERNAMES?

Zathract Mist said...

TELL ME NOW.

And yay you, Sparky!

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