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 15, 2016
New words written: 2672
Present total word count: 67,169



Things Accomplished in Fiction: Lunch and some shared concerns; a very weird reception; sinister portents all around.

Things Accomplished in Real Life: Neighborhood jaunt with the dog; tidied the house; went to lunch; tried not to take a nap; mostly succeeded.

Personal Other: Still feel like crap, and sometimes my right ear is so clogged up I can hardly hear out of it, but the antibiotics are on the case. I assume. They're messing with my stomach like crazy, so they'd BETTER be making themselves useful otherwise.

Dog Other: My dog, everyone.



Number of fiction words so far this year: 57,795