It's cold and lonely in the deep dark night

Here's today's progress on my witchy art-deco horror novel about Lizzie Borden thirty years after her parents' deaths - now featuring ghosts and non-ghosts alike, anti-Catholic conspiracy nuts, supernatural political shenanigans, the mafia, and a Bonus! space-worshiping murder cult hiding behind the KKK:
Project: Chapelwood
Deadline: October 1, 2014
New words written: 2192
Present total word count: 4975



Things accomplished in fiction: Reintroduced another familiar face, an inspector from Boston who's about to take a road trip to see if he can't solve an old friend's murder.

Next up: Local politician sees the light at the end of the tunnel, and it's definitely a train. Forces are aligning against this dude and his police chief, in a very, very bad way.

Things accomplished in real life: Neighborhood jaunt with dog; helpful email exchanges; tidied house; cooked lunch; not much else - it's been a long day that got off to a slow start.

Other: Christopher Golden is a prince among men. Because of reasons.

Cheerful other: Still trucking for 2014 - holding steady above that 1k/day average. [:: fistpump ::] I'd like to pull Chapelwood together a little faster than Maplecroft without driving myself bananas on a death march - partly because production is about to drop on another book, and next month I need to start rewrites on Jacaranda. I want to get ahead while I can, you know?

Number of fiction words so far this year: 38,386