Sweetheart I'm telling you - here comes the zoo

Here's recent progress on my modern gothic ghost story about a salvage crew trapped in a doomed southern mansion - now with a crunchy murder ballad center and Bonus! clandestine cemetery where the stones don't match the bodies (and were never meant to). As inspired by a (semi)true local legend:
Project: The Family Plot
Deadline: January 15, 2015
New words written: 6623
Present total word count: 102,834 [final Draft Zero tally]



Things Accomplished in Fiction: DRAFT ZERO! [:: ticker tape parade ::] [:: confetti blast ::] [:: tee shirt cannon ::]

Things Accomplished in Real Life: Neighborhood jaunt with dog; grocery shopping; not much else - this ate the whole day.

Other: Yes, it's shorter than projected - but 110k was an arbitrary number anyway, and revisions will probably plump it up a bit further. We shall see. Still, it's COMPLETE and I am HAPPY WITH IT and I can set it down until after Christmas - when I start cleaning it up so I can chuck it to my editor before January 15.

Bonus Other: YOU GUYS. I've officially cracked a quarter million words for the year! Personal record, y'all! [:: dies and is dead ::]

Final Other: Pardon me, but now I'm going to go take a nice hot shower and then have a nice stiff drink and just...not...you know. THINK about anything for a bit. [:: collapses ::] [:: dies some more ::] [:: remains dead again ::]

Number of fiction words so far this year: 254,212