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, their now-teenage children, and their own parents - 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: 2106 (yay!)
Present total word count: 14,756
Things accomplished in real life: Walked the dogs; cleaned up NO dog pee today, yay!; sat around with my notebook hashing some stuff out for the next chapter; took a little nap I desperately needed; cleaned the kitchen.
Things accomplished in fiction: Finished chapter five; introduced the third of four main characters, Nick Serrano - a lawyer who successfully skips a corporate team-building exercise of “laser tag” without telling anybody why.
Darling duJour: Eh, my favorite line today is a spoiler so I’ll leave it out. Oh well.
Other: This is my best word day in ages! Ordinarily, I’d just call it “satisfactory,” since 2k/day is a generally healthy (but not stellar) pace for me when I’m drafting. But I got soooooo burned out after [work for hire project redacted] this spring, whereupon I was writing 5-6k a day for a month, and I just… haven’t yet recovered. This is a good sign, though! Let’s see if I can do it again tomorrow…
Approximate number of fiction words so far this year: 85,300