Here's recent 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: Brimstone
Deadline: March 1, 2016
New words written: 2105
Present total word count: 17,229



Things Accomplished in Fiction: Went back to Ybor City and to a very nice haberdashery; called an electrician and got nowhere at all; decided that a priest might be more useful, considering how weird the problem has turned out to be.

Things Accomplished in Real Life: Neighborhood jaunt with the dog; went to post office; grabbed lunch; answered some emails and achieved Inbox Zero; did some research.

Other: The count should've really been higher, but I went down a research rabbit hole. Tomorrow's might not be too high either - because I have a doctor's appointment in the morning, and a dog party lined up in the afternoon. But I'll see what I can do.

Dog Other: [Christmas throwback] Greyson survived the car-ride home from Kentucky without puking, but he was pretty pitiful all the same.



Cat Other: Cats are weird.



Number of fiction words so far this year: 4016