Stay on taaaarget…

As some of our twitter buddies probably noticed, Donna’s internet was out for a little more than a week, and it wrecked havoc on our productivity.  Donna and I do our best work when we’re not in the same room together, because we distract each other. A lot. But last week the only way for us to accomplish real work was for her to bring her laptop over to my house, and so we only did it once for a very tight deadline we absolutely could not miss.

However, her internet is back and this week we’ve been busting ass.  We want to turn in Sanctuary Unbound by the beginning of 2010 and we had the last little bit to write, and we needed to get it done in time to leave a little padding for cleaning it up on the other side of the holidays.  Especially since I’m going to have Christmas visitors for the first time this year!

We’ve written 12,810 words since Monday and last night we came so very close to finishing the book off!  Today we’ve got to tie up a climactic battle and the sniffly ending, and the book should be ready for edits & revisions before New Year’s.  WOOHOO!

It’s a little sad though, because this is the last we’ll be writing of these characters for the time being.  Adam and Gavin we get a tiny bit more of because they are dropping in for cameos once or twice in the spin-off series as much younger men, but today we’re saying goodbye to Keith, Abby, Brynn, Joe, Dylan, Sasha, Samantha and Cindy, and I’ll admit, that’s making me a little emo.  Luckily, I know we’re setting them up to have plenty of insane adventures in the future, so maybe we haven’t seen the end of them yet.  Goodbye for now, then.

And for those of you who are curious about the historical spin-off, there will be tiny hints and very sneaky cameos at the end of Sanctuary Unbound to give you some glimpses of Seamus and Joan, our hero and heroine.  We actually wrote the first half of the novella while covering some of Adam’s backstory and memories, because there were things that needed to be tweaked and woven together.  It was very interesting, writing Adam’s memories of an event while simultaneously writing the actual event from someone else’s POV.  It felt like juggling at the time, but now I’m quite pleased with the results!

So, enough rambling.  Time to go finish a book.  Woohoo!