So he told them his scheme for a saviour machine

Here's recent 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: 4243 (multi-day total)
Present total word count: 98,252



Things accomplished in fiction: Planned an escape; tried to recover from a ghostly setback.

Things accomplished in real life: Neighborhood jaunts with dog; writer business including (but not limited to) arrangement details re: BuboniCon and the Santa Fe event; started getting ready for an old friend's visit; had a different old friend over with her wee dog Fiona for a playdate and catching-up time. Many dog-cuddles were delivered upon that day.



Other: I didn't get any writing done yesterday, so my word count is a 2-day total between Thursday and today. It's better than a 1k/day average, but not much better. I'd really like to crack 100k tomorrow (preferably beyond that), in order to clear up a little goofing-off time for my friend's visit; mind you, I'll still need to take an hour or two each day for business (at least), but I don't know how much actual writing will occur while she's here. And remember: the goal is to have a full Draft Zero of Chapelwood before I leave for Albuquerque on the 27th.

Yardwork Other: I've excavated the vast majority of the pea gravel from the former herb garden, and relocated it for weed-control purposes to the foundation plants against the house. That doesn't sound like much, but it was a couple of hours in the summer heat with a shovel and a wheelbarrow, and now my back hurts like hell, so...yeah.

Number of fiction words so far this year: 131,645