Yea we're the all time winners and here we go again
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: 2571
Present total word count: 94,009
Things accomplished in fiction: Made a plan; drove out into the boonies; threw a seance by the light of a touring car's headlamps.
Next up: Probably ought to discontinue this section, right about now.
Things accomplished in real life: Neighborhood jaunt with dog; Writer Business emails and whatnot, largely related to BuboniCon at the end of this month; did some yard work that's gonna make me hurt tomorrow.
Other: Tomorrow, Greyson's getting a playdate with wee adorable Fiona - and I'm hanging with my old friend friend Mikhaile. (There will be pictures, no doubt.) That'll go down in the morning, though. I'll still have time for work later in the afternoon.
Yardwork Other: So....things had gotten pretty out-of-hand at the old herb garden corner. It'd been entirely taken over by crabgrass, even across the pea gravel path. Given another few weeks, it all would've overtaken the roses, too, and eventually our cute little Saint Francis statue. So I grabbed my hoe and yanked all the grass out, mere moments before the bottom dropped out and the whole scene got soaked down good. Before that happened, I also did a bunch of weeding, pruned back the old rose tree (it was reaching toward the power lines again), pruned the beautyberry bush and the quinces, and transplanted some of the coleus to another container (it was getting crowded, and something else died - making room).
Bonus Other: Had a pretty great 30-minute thunderstorm - and as it petered out, we had sun + rain in the back yard, and dry-but-gray-skies in the front yard. And this.
Number of fiction words so far this year: 127,402
Project: Chapelwood
Deadline: October 1, 2014
New words written: 2571
Present total word count: 94,009
Things accomplished in fiction: Made a plan; drove out into the boonies; threw a seance by the light of a touring car's headlamps.
Next up: Probably ought to discontinue this section, right about now.
Things accomplished in real life: Neighborhood jaunt with dog; Writer Business emails and whatnot, largely related to BuboniCon at the end of this month; did some yard work that's gonna make me hurt tomorrow.
Other: Tomorrow, Greyson's getting a playdate with wee adorable Fiona - and I'm hanging with my old friend friend Mikhaile. (There will be pictures, no doubt.) That'll go down in the morning, though. I'll still have time for work later in the afternoon.
Yardwork Other: So....things had gotten pretty out-of-hand at the old herb garden corner. It'd been entirely taken over by crabgrass, even across the pea gravel path. Given another few weeks, it all would've overtaken the roses, too, and eventually our cute little Saint Francis statue. So I grabbed my hoe and yanked all the grass out, mere moments before the bottom dropped out and the whole scene got soaked down good. Before that happened, I also did a bunch of weeding, pruned back the old rose tree (it was reaching toward the power lines again), pruned the beautyberry bush and the quinces, and transplanted some of the coleus to another container (it was getting crowded, and something else died - making room).
Bonus Other: Had a pretty great 30-minute thunderstorm - and as it petered out, we had sun + rain in the back yard, and dry-but-gray-skies in the front yard. And this.
Number of fiction words so far this year: 127,402
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It's awards season, so here comes the shameless self-promotion
Hello everyone! It's awards season and this is my job, so please click through and take a peek if you are so inclined. Don't worry - it's short! I only published a couple of things this year, and I in
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