The time for sweating poison out is just now comin' 'round

Here's today's progress on my fifth Clockwork Century novel - a book about teenage juvenile delinquents, hypothetical ghosts, and gangland mayhem within the walled city of Seattle ... now with Bonus! zombie Sasquatch and the return of everyone's favorite elderly cross-dressing Native American princess:

Project: Inexplicables
Deadline: September 15, 2011
New words written: 1262 (low count, but good words)
Present total word count: 81,283 words

Things accomplished in real life: Daily run/climb plus yoga; went to the bank to get quarters for laundry; picked up milk; did a difficult round of day-job work; exchanged copious business emails, and some personal emails too.

Darling du jour: "Rector didn't like the way Yaozu said 'please.' It didn't sound like a request. It sounded like a bullet."

Other: The word count is low, yes - but it's better than it looks. I actually culled about a thousand words, for one thing; and for another, most of the new count is material I massaged into the first half of my existing material. I'd been keeping notes re: "stuff to make sure I incorporate before I hand in this draft," and I was hitting a point where it felt weird to write forward without knowing my narrative foundation was secure. So I took the fiction-writing portion of my afternoon to go and address this problem.

Other, redux: I am still so tired I can hardly see straight. Last night was another bad night of sick husband serenading me with his snore choir. And it's not like I can take a quick nap during the day, not with all the construction going on. I may yet go utterly bananas.

Total narrative fiction word count for 2011: 81,283 words