Alone in a darkened room: The Count

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: 4170 (YEAH)
Present total word count: 30,276



Things accomplished in fiction: The surviving hotel guests/staff/visitors barricaded themselves inside. The lights went out. Shit got weird. No, not that kind of weird, you pervs.

Next up:

Things accomplished in real life: Daily jaunt around the neighborhood with the dog; made a very tasty lunch; answered some emails; cleaned the kitchen.

Other: Great word count today! Now if I can keep it up for the rest of the week maybe I'll draft this bad-boy out by the end of the month after all! Fingers crossed for this deathmarch, y'all. I'll try to get a head start tonight, and cough up a few more. I need a break, though. Maybe a snack. Hmm...

Number of fiction words so far this year: 22,696