Here's recent 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: 4003 (including weekend words)
Present total word count: 21,042
Things accomplished in real life: Walked the dogs; cleaned up NO dog pee after two days in a row of dog pee city; did more laundry; cleaned house; went grocery shopping; not much else.
Things accomplished in fiction: Introduced my fourth and final primary character; established how all four are connected; introduced my villain; now I just have to get the band back together ::thumbs up::
Darling duJour: “He’d always been an oddly shaped peg, not looking for a place to fit—but hunting a power position where he could anchor himself.”
Other: Since I started NaNoWriMo mid-project, I feel like there’s kind of a lot of math to keep everything current over there - but I’m sticking with it. Add me over there as a “buddy” if you want. (Click the nano link in this paragraph.)
Bonus Other: I cracked 20,000 words! It’s not really a milestone, but (for me at least) it’s when a project starts to feel like it has enough meat on its bones to start feeling good about it ::flexes little arm muscles::
Approximate number of fiction words so far this year: 91,586