No new work yesterday, because I was cleaning the house and running to the grocery store and getting ready to host a handful of friends + pass out candy. Halloween gets a mulligan, I don’t even care.
So here's today’s progress on my modern gothic ghost story about the fallout from a school shooting 25 years ago, told from the POV of four survivors - with Bonus! memories both faulty and true, intergenerational violence and grace alike, and a boarded up school with thirty-two ghosts who know something the police never figured out. This bad-boy is one part The Haunting of Hill House, one part The Frighteners, and one part Bowling for Columbine. Wish me luck.
Project: Kill Me Now
Deadline: none ::throws confetti::
New words written: 2273 (respectable)
Present total word count: 17,029
Things accomplished in real life: Walked the dogs; cleaned up NO dog pee for the third day in a row, yay!; cleaned up all the Halloween decorations (even the stuff outside) and/or the leftovers of last night’s shenanigans/the kitchen/etc; laundered all the bedding.
Things accomplished in fiction: Finished half of chapter six; drummed up the courage to attend a political stump speech/rally and recalled not-so-fondly the fellow we knew in high school who is presently running for mayor.
Darling duJour: Eh, my favorite line today is a spoiler so I’ll leave it out. Oh well.
Other: So…for the first time ever, I’ve signed up for NaNoWriMo. I’ve let this project cook long enough, and I would really love to finish Draft Zero before the new year. Not sure if I can credibly swing that or not, but the daily accountability can’t hurt/might help.
NaNoWriMo Other: Because I only just now updated the “projects portion” of the site, it shows me as having zero words done today - which (as you know if you’ve read this far) isn’t true. At any rate, if you want to add me as a “buddy” over there, go ahead. I’ll add you back eventually.
Approximate number of fiction words so far this year: 87,573