Let the word metrics reboot, and recommence! I mean, they might as well, right? So 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: 1144 (meh)
Present total word count: 6336



Things Accomplished in Fiction: Got reacquainted with the story so far - jumped into a new POV, so the going was a little slow while I got the new voice sorted out. I think I've got a handle on it now.

Things Accomplished in Real Life: Last night - had a few friends over to watch the ball drop; today - neighborhood jaunt with dog, tweaks to the website, some housework, tying up last year's loose ends.

Other: I changed the target word count to 15k, as I think that's probably all I'll need for now - but we'll see what the agent/editor say. It's up for negotiation.

Other Other: Karl's funeral is tomorrow. I'll try to get some word metrics in, but no promises.

Somewhat Further Musings Upon Other: I have (in theory) four books coming out this year, so I needed to pull the Maplecroft-themed site for 2015. This new layout of mine is clean and open, which is nice - but I'll grant you, it's not very dark and spooky. In my defense, my vision is pretty poor; sometimes I find darker sites a little difficult to peruse, so...yeah. I wish I could customize it a tad further, but it's a free template and I don't have the money to pay anyone to drum me up something more Official Looking. So you get what my limited skills can provide. And that's all.

Number of fiction words so far this year: 1144 (just pitiful/better than nothing)


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Here's Greyson pausing on his morning walk, in order to wish his cat-friend "Watson" a Happy New Year. He's just gentlemanly that way...