[NOTE: This was actually yesterday's post. I have no idea why LJ opted not to post it; it was saved in drafts, but never actually went live. So. Whatever. Here you go.]


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: 1961 (better)
Present total word count: 9493



Things Accomplished in Fiction: Arrived at our destination only to get booted from the car and ditched in the road, along with all our stuff; met the mayor, who isn't quite what we expected; got served a light supper.

Things Accomplished in Real Life: Neighborhood jaunt with dog, who ran into every damn dog he knows so it took awhile; finished residual tidying-up from having not done a big Friday clean + having a Bonus! dog on-site for the weekend; sent some emails; sorted out some business.

Other: The Cooj went home last night, having had a most excellent visit at Chez Cherie's Doggie Day Spa. He's an easy guest, and he and Greyson are such a hoot together - it's like having your own personal dog entourage anytime you go from room to room...unless they're lounging around the yard, "guarding" the place (by which I mean "napping")...

Writing Stuff Other: That's all the writing I plan to do tonight, but I do need to sit down and start cleaning through The Family Plot - as mentioned with my last post. The draft is pretty solid (IMO) but it still needs a hardy read-through and tweaking before I impose it upon my editor.

Number of fiction words so far this year: 4301

And here's one last shot of the boys - lounging in the foyer just before Cooj's people came to pick him up.