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I took a look at The Dead Isle this morning -- I've now successfully excised Dr. Bland, sorry Dr. Bland, you were awesome in real life -- and happened to glance at the word count in the status bar. I have sixty-eight thousand words still to edit. To put this in perspective, Nameless, the entire book, was sixty-eight thousand words when published.

This is gonna be a big book.

I keep cutting stuff, but it never seems to get any shorter. I kind of wish I could split it in half, but there's no real Major Crisis Climax I could use for the first half, unless you count Jack landing the airship, and I don't. Besides, it would be quite a bit more expensive to buy "Dead Isle, The Two Book Set" than it will be to just buy the one GIANT BOOK. I shall look at it as a chance to push Lulu's manufacturing boundaries and see how well they do.

When I was writing originally, I decided not to worry if Dead Isle wasn't great literature; I gave myself permission to write a pulp adventure novel, where logic and realism don't necessarily play a major part, and I have to say I'm not regretting that decision. Sometimes when I get bored of editing I skip ahead; the ending is incredibly unrealistic, but it's so thrilling to me I find it hard to mind. And frankly if I wrote it realistically, there'd be another sixty thousand words tacked on.

Anyway I will never be tired of Jack "Just because electricity CAN stop your heart doesn't mean it ALWAYS WILL" Baker. He's my verison of "ninjas attack". Hit a writing block? Make Jack say something irrelevant. Need tension? Jack blows something up. Deus ex machina? JACK CAN BUILD ONE.

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I finally watched the second two episodes of Sherlock! SORRY I'M SORT OF LATE. (That's what Sherlock said. OH YEAH I WENT THERE.)

Spoilers behind the cut, but if you've dodged spoilers up to this point you're a more diligent person than I.

Six things about Episode 2.02, ( Hound Of The Baskervilles )

6a. Two things I kept thinking during both episodes was "I LOVE YOU MRS. HUDSON" and "Aww, John". I mean, that sums it all up, don't you think?

And six things about Episode 2.03, ( The Reichenbach Fall )

6a. The temptation to write a story in which Sherlock shows up in Neal Caffrey's living room after the finales of Sherlock S2 and White Collar S3, so that they can have one last game of chase, is well nigh overwhelming. Though it just wouldn't be the same without John and the Burkes watching them.