Forgetting all I couldn't do today

Here's today's progress on my poltergeist-plagued hotel horror story, wherein everyone’s favorite steampunk Texas Ranger joins forces with a goth-as-hell gunslinger-turned-padre who may (or may not) have supernatural powers:
Project: Jacaranda
Deadline: March 31, 2014
New words written: 1297
Present total word count: 1297



Things accomplished in fiction: I have a start! It's a small start - but a start all the same, and I'm very happy with it. Introduced the first of three main characters. Rode in a cart. Read a letter. Heard a confession.

Next up: Ride a ferry; check into a hotel.

Things accomplished in real life: Morning jaunt around the neighborhood with the dog; went to lunch; went to the bank; spent a ridiculous amount of time troubleshooting my printer (and internet); tidied the house; took down the hanging flower baskets off the porch since they were dead and gross.

Other: I actually wrote about a thousand words on this over the weekend, but threw most of it out. Finally found the tone and thread I want to start with - and I'm very, very happy with it. But beginnings are always hard for me. I'm a little surprised this one came together as easily as it did.

Four-legged other: Greyson is going back to the dog park this afternoon. He also has a groomer's appointment on Wednesday, so that'll probably screw up some of our gentle conditioning ... but we've put it off too long. Mostly it's his feet that need attending; when he trots around on the house's hardwoods, he sounds like the Addams Family's "Thing" wearing acrylics and fuzzy mittens. (Besides, he has extra toes - and those nails don't touch the ground, so they don't wear down on their own. If we let them go, they'll just curl back into themselves and hurt him.) He doesn't particularly enjoy getting groomed, but he grudgingly tolerates it. Maybe we'll get him one plain cheese Krystal on the way home, to make up for the inconvenience.

Number of fiction words so far this year: 170,903