Here's today's progress on my subtropical (art)deco mystery about a young medium in a historic spiritualist community teaming up with a 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: 2678
Present total word count: 63,271



Things Accomplished in Fiction: We meet at last! (No, we meet at first!)

Things Accomplished in Real Life: Neighborhood jaunt with the dog; went to post office; took a panicky break to try and help catch Luna, Greyson's best friend - who got loose from her harness and went on an adventure; hosted a dog playdate when the wanderlusty little lady was finally corralled; took my meds like a good girl.

Personal Other: I feel less like crap than yesterday, and it's only day 2 of the antibiotics. Hooray.

Cat Other: Little old lady cat only got up three times last night. Not ideal, but it beats the 8-10 times per night we receive - when she's really on a tear.

Dog Other: Greyson and Luna were super happy to see each other. The weather here has been really wet and miserable for the last couple of weeks, so they had a lot of pent up wrasslin' energy to work out of their systems. All of this wiggly, joyful dog energy sometimes makes them tricky to photograph. But sometimes, I get lucky.



Number of fiction words so far this year: 53,897