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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: 3975 (2-day total)

Present total word count: 37,103

Things accomplished in real life: Walked the dogs; cleaned up some dog pee (pee pad + towel, but a bit got onto the carpet anyway); cleaned the entire house and then some - even busted out the carpet shampooer and took the dog beds outside to clean them good.

Things accomplished in fiction: Got hurt in the process of observing a poltergeist-type event; got dragged to the ER; inadvertently therefore “got the band back together” when everyone showed up at the hospital.

Darling duJour: Not today.

Other: Lucy has peed for several days in a row, but it’s all been on the pee pad + towel so I’m not complaining. (The rescue group from whence we adopted her used towels rather than pads - so Lucy won’t do her business unless there’s a textile on the floor. Therefore, we put down a pee pad, then add a folded towel on top.) It’s a little extra laundry, but hardly the end of the world.

Bonus Other: I realize I’ve talked about Lucy and her pee issues a lot lately, but the vet said I should try to track it a bit, so that’s what I’m doing.

Subsequent Other: Today I was reminded (courtesy of Twitter) that it’s been ten years since Boneshaker came out. That book changed my life in a lot of great ways, and I am very grateful for it—and for everyone who helped make it happen. It’s been a busy decade, with its ups and downs both personally and professionally, but that’s life, man.

Bride of Other: Speaking of, there’s a “things I’ve accomplished in this decade” meme going around the internet, and okay. I’ll take a swing at it: I bought my first house, adopted my first dog, adopted a foundling kitten, adopted a second dog, lost the beloved eldercat at an improbably advanced age; moved back to Seattle with my husband; we bought a house here - then sold it this summer in favor of something that suits us better (let us leave it at that); volunteered for a political campaign; wrote for a triple-A video game franchise; wrote for a massive IP that I’ll never mention in public so don’t ask; published 15 books; joined the Wild Cards consortium and published half a dozen pieces through that fine cabal. I don’t know. I’m sure there’s a lot more, but that’s the stuff that sprang to mind.

Approximate number of fiction words so far this year: 107,647

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