You're about as easy as a nuclear war

Here's today's progress on my subtropical (art)deco mystery about a friendly medium in a historic spiritualist community teaming up with a WWI shell-shocked haberdasher who's receiving love notes from hell ... as inspired by a real place and a real set of bizarre (otherworldly?) incidents:
Project: Cassadaga [working title]
Deadline: February 1, 2015
New words written: 1196 (meh again)
Present total word count: 7532



Things Accomplished in Fiction: Did a little restructuring, some rewriting, and only a little new writing. This one's a big shift in tone from the last thing I worked on, and I'm trying hard to get it off on the right feet.

Things Accomplished in Real Life: Neighborhood jaunt with dog(s); went to lunch; did several loads of laundry; tidied the house a bit, since I didn't do the usual Friday Cleaning yesterday.

Other: Karl's funeral was kind of hilarious. If you missed it yesterday, I wrote about it over here .

Four-Footed Other: We have a guest-dog again this weekend - the wildly misnamed "Cujo" from a few months ago. He's the three-legged gent with a heart condition and a really big smile. Such an easygoing, cheerful fellow - and always an excellent guest.

Other Project Other: Come Monday, I'll begin cleaning up The Family Plot for submission as a proper Draft One before the 15th. Which is to say, I need to send it off (a). in time to make the deadline, and probably (b). before I head off to ConFusion . This will surely mean continued slow-going on the Cassadaga project, but that's life. [:: shrug ::]

Number of fiction words so far this year: 2340 (ugh)


And here's Greyson and Cujo, semi-patiently waiting for me to LET THEM GO OUTSIDE, PLEASE. They are the funniest of dog-bros :)