The Epic Month of Posts

I thought I would begin this post by telling you all the story of Nano 2011. For me, of course.  I'm sure there were a million story's during nano 2011.  Anyway, this is my story of Nano 2011.

It was my second year of Nano, and my first year had gone relatively well.  (Okay, so I tripled the goal for the month...at the time I had absolutely no idea that I was even capable of such a thing.  Who knew.)  Anyway, as it was my second year and had managed to get so many words, I decided I was going to up that goal.  Just by a little bit, and I decided to set it at 200k words.

So, I was on about day three, and I had already written 30k words.  I was ahead of the game, and pretty happy with my progress thus far.  Then I started talking to one of my nano friends online.  She had decided that her goal that year was to beat me, and she already had 20k.

I'm told that this was the point where I overreacted.  I disagree.  I think what I did was perfectly rational, but I suppose I have to concede to the majority.

At this point, she was only 10k behind me, and I might be just slightly competitive, so I decided right then and there that 10k a day wasn't so bad, and I could keep that up for the entire month and write 300k.

I did it.  The girl who got me to raise my goal, she didn't even make the original 200k.  But it was a great month, and it's going to be something that I'm repeating this year.

So why am I telling you this now when nano hasn't even started?  Because of what else I did during Nano 2011 that will also be happening this year.

A friend of mine (not the same girl that managed to get me to write 300k words...) told me about a week before Nano started that she was going to write a blog post a day during the month of November.  I scoffed at her and told her she was crazy (I had only written about five blog posts total at this point).  Then I decided I was going to join her.

I didn't quite make it.  I ended up missing two days, and not all of it was good (more than a couple days was nothing more than 'here's my word count, I'm going to bed) but it was what really got this blog started.  It was because of those 30 days that I even considered getting the posts on a schedule of sorts.

Of course, last years we didn't have any rules.  This year we have a couple:

1) The post must be up on your site before midnight in whatever time zone you happen to be in.

2) All blog posts must be a minimum of 50 words to be considered a post (yes, this is short, but we might just up this count next year.)

This year we're also inviting other people to join us in our blogging efforts.  I'm keeping a list of all those involved on the sidebar on my site, and B. A. Matthews is doing the same.  So you can follow anyone whose going to be posting a blog a day and see who actually manages it.

Or you can sign up for it yourself, either by commenting on this post, contacting me via twitter (@DanniM86) or talking to B. A. Matthews.

We would also appreciate anyone who would like to spread the word.  I'm calling it the Epic Month of Posts, but feel free to come up with your own names for it.

I'm excited for this year (as I've upped my goal to 320k of my own free will, rather than being goaded in to it), and I can't wait to see the posts that come out of it.  I hope that we get a few of you to join, because it's going to be great!

The Next Big Thing

 I have been tagged in another challenge, and I thought it would be fun to post it.  So, here it goes.  I'm going to use the book that I'm currently editing and hoping to query in January.

What is the title of your book?

Pandora - Book 1 of the Jayne Pheare Series

Where did the idea come from?

I've never been a huge fan of this question, but that's mostly because I don't always remember where I get my ideas from.  Thankfully I do actually remember where this one came from, so I can answer the question.  Last nano I was hanging out in our chat room (which I may be slightly addicted to during November)  where we have an awesome name generator for all of those character naming emergencies you have during nano.  (If you've never done nano, trust me, these do happen.  More often than you would think.)  Anyway, one of the other regulars (we're having the room tested for drugs...so far it's clean) was randomly generating names.  I don't know if he was actually looking for a name, or just procrastinating, but regardless, many a name was being brought up, most of which were being made fun of or just out right rejected.  And then Jane Fear popped up.  I was hooked immediately.  I knew I had to make that character, though I honestly didn't know anything else about the character (as you may have noticed, I have since changed the spelling of the name.).  I took the idea and ran with it.

What genre does your book fall under?

Urban Fantasy

What actors would you chose to play your characters in a movie?

 Honestly, this is probably the hardest question on here, as I don't cast my characters before I write the book.  I prefer to imagine them exactly the way I want them, rather than equating them with a face that isn't exactly right.  But, as it's a question being asked on a challenge I've committed to doing, I suppose I'll do my best, though I guarantee nothing.

Jayne - Eriko Tamura

Dax - Chris Pine

Ashley - Brian Tee

Zane - Chris Hemsworth

Lashon - Kristen Bell

Mac - Rupert Grint

Reggie - Malin Ackerman

Jerri - Michelle Williams

Brooks - Michael Ealy

Yep, I was right, that took me longer than all the other questions I answered.  But that's my cast.  I thoroughly enjoyed casting my characters ^^

What is the one - two sentence synopsis for your book?

A conscience can make an assassin's job hell.

Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency?

I'm definitely hoping to be represented by an agency.  Not that I have anything against self publishing, and will probably self publish if the traditional route doesn't go anywhere, it's just that I don't particularly trust myself to do everything correctly.  To have a solid book that I wouldn't cringe while reading if I had bought it.  To be able to advertise it enough to make any kind of profit.  So, I would prefer to have an agent and publisher.

What else about your book will pique your readers' interest?

While assassins and werewolves have both been done, putting them together isn't something you see very often.  Add in a conscience, some sexual tension and a bit of a mystery, and I think this is a book any Urban Fantasy reader would love.

The Tags

Alright, so here are the tags.  The person who tagged me tagged three people, so I'll do the same:

B.A. Matthews
Eric Satchwill
Breeana Putroff

Happy 100th Blog Post

This blog post is - wait for it - The HUNDREDTH blog post I've written since I started this blog last year!

Just like with my writing this blog has been a journey for me.

It started when I read a blog post written by a friend.  I couldn't imagine the concept of writing my thoughts and sharing them with the world.  Maybe I just thought that no one would ever want to read what I'm thinking about.  My thoughts are random and not in the slightest bit interesting.

And yet...all I could think about was how much I wanted to write one.  Just one.  Maybe just do a guest blog somewhere.

He told me that I should start my own blog, and I finally did.  I gave in and started this very blog, using the nickname that had been given to me by my fellow nanoers.

That first week I think I wrote three blog posts.  None of them, I'm sure, made much sense, but I just loved the freedom of being able to write whatever I wanted.  To just tell the world what I was thinking, and not have to worry too much about what they would say about it.

After that, I pretty much forgot I had a blog.  Okay, I didn't actually forget, but I definitely ignored it.  I stopped writing blog posts, and I was sure it was just going to die a quick painless death.  No one was too invested, so it didn't really matter.

It was nano that saved my blog.  Strange, considering that's probably when most people fall behind on their posts.  Another friend challenged me to write a blog post a day.  We didn't have a word count minimum, and it didn't have to be about anything, so long as it was a post (our rules were rather lax, as it was our first year).

I decided I might as well.  It would be fun, right?

It was freaking hard.  I mean, there were days that I was sure I wasn't going to get a post up (and a couple that I actually didn't).  There were even days when all I did was post my current word count for nano, because I really didn't have the brain power to think up something to write about.  In the end, though, I had only missed two days, and suddenly my blog had actual posts on it.  Regular posts.

In December I decided that I wanted to make sure I was posting with some kind of regularity so that I never again fell into the pit of not posting for months on end, and started with a once a week schedule.  It didn't take me long to realize that once a week wasn't enough for me, and I pushed it up to twice a week.

I don't always remember to do my posts.  Take this one, for instance.  I was actually supposed to write it yesterday, but as sometimes happens, I ended up being too busy and not being able to find the time.  There were weeks when I just completely forgot about the post.  I'm getting better, though.  It's been a couple of months since I've let that happen.

Every post I make seems to bring with it new challenges.  New people reading.  New accomplishments, and I'm so glad now that I gave in and started a blog, even if it never gets huge.  I've been able to share my experiences with people, and that was all I ever wanted to do.

I can't wait to see where I am, and where the blog is when I hit the 200th post.

For the record, we will be doing the Blog Post a Day challenge in November.  We'd love to get all kinds of different bloggers joining us.  No sign up, but I would love to get a link if you decide to do it.

Is It July Already?

During nano I always find that time moves rather strangely for me. 

First the month starts slowly.  The first and second seem to have all the time in the world as I race ahead of the game, eager to shape the chart that I want to see at the end of the month.  I'm always surprised at how slow the month is going, because if the entire month goes by that slow, then I'll never have to worry about finishing my story.

In the middle of the month, just like the rest of the nano people, I lose my momentum, and the hours drag.  I see the time there, and I just know that if I could actually write something that didn't sound like it was coming out of the mouth of a two year old, I could get so much done.  Instead I just sit there, forcing out the worst words I'm sure I've ever written, and hope for it to be over.

The end of the month goes by so quickly that I'm never quite sure what happened.  In November this resulted in me having a crisis.  I had ten days left, and one more novel to write.  Despite the fact that I had done that very thing twice in the month already, I freaked out and decided that it was too much.  I couldn't do it.  Then I type furiously and hit my goal before that final buzzer sounds (or the time flips over to midnight of the first) and I get to relax.

One the first of the month, it always hits me.  Nano is over, and I now have so many more words.  I'm always a little amazed to see that stack of papers that prove I wrote a novel (or three) in a month.

In the first Camp Nano, I barely hit the 50k mark.  Even though that was really all I was aiming for, I was a little disappointed with myself.  I know I can do so much more, and I had to write furiously to even hit that goal.  Rather than feeling like I normally do with nano, I instead felt like I could have done better, and headed into another round instantly, determined to not lose sight of my goal.

In August I did even worse.  I believe I topped out at 17k, then gave up (both on the story and on the month of Camp Nano.)  Time slipped by slowly, taunting me with my inability to finish the novel, and I eventually decided that maybe Camp Nano just wasn't for me.  Maybe I just worked better in November, and why was I even trying to write in the summer.  I never intended to join Camp this year.  I was going to spend the time editing and querying, then plan for November.

It was a friend of mine that changed my mind.  She's pregnant and going to have three little ones at home this November, so she decided to do the camps instead of Nano, because she just won't have time.  Originally I still said no, but then I changed my mind (I've never been one to turn down a challenge.)  So I launched into June determined to write 75k and finish the novel I started in April and never finished.

Much to my surprise, I felt June starting to move into the same routine November does.  With the quick beginning, struggling middle and panicky end.  I didn't write furiously for the last week, though.  Technical issues aided me in deciding that I'd written enough and I was far too busy over the last week to attempt another 50k.

However, today I can't help but sit here and think about the fact that I wrote 125k last month.  I had been afraid I wouldn't finish the 50k, and then I went and wrote another 75 on top of it.  I started a novel I hadn't even known was going to exist, and I can't wait to finish it in August.  Camp Nano took me by surprise this year.  I certainly didn't write as much as I normally do in November, but considering how much I struggled last year, my final word count impressed me.

Today is the day to stop and take a breath.  Look around and realize that we only have a month to get our lives back in order before another round of Camp Nano starts.  In only 30 days it will be time to dive into new worlds, introduce ourselves to new characters, and prove to the world, once again, that we are writers!

Off To Camp We Go

First I would like to apologize.  I didn't manage to get a single blog post up last week.  I'm supposed to do two a week and failed utterly.  I'm going to blame it on my lack of computer the week before and therefore the overwhelming need to get caught up on my planning goals.  I needed to have a plot done by end of day Thursday, and I just barely managed it (finishing it at 11:52)

Anyway, onto the real point of this post.  Camp Nano.

In November every year (since I started in 2010) I do something called NaNoWriMo.  For any of you that don't know, nano was started by a non-profit organization by the name of OLL (Office of Letters and Light).  Their main goal is to encourage amateur writers to get those books done.  The entire idea behind it (and I'm paraphrasing here) is: You can edit crap, you can't edit nothing.  Yes, I use that phrase all the time, no I didn't actually hear it from the website.

Basically it just means, you need to get that first draft written no matter what.  Don't make excuses, don't put it off, get it done.  Because until you have that rough draft in your hand, you're never going to become the writer you want to be.  It's basically the first step.

Nano has done great things for me.  In 2010 I started off thinking there was no way I was going to reach the goal (which, in case you were wondering, is 50k words in a month) and ended up with three times the amount I needed.  It was crazy.  I discovered so much about myself that month.  That I'm actually quite competitive (I spent the entire month staring at a chart swearing that I was going to surpass that first place person).  That there are, in fact, other people out there like me (before that point it had been a while since I had met anyone who truly understood me).  And, of course, the most important thing of all, that I am a writer.

Why am I telling you all of this?  Well, last year OLL came out with another program (NaNoWriMo isn't the only program they have.  Next year I'm going to try Script Frenzy with some friends as well.  I'm pretty excited.)

They called it Camp NaNoWriMo.  Basically it's just Nano, but in the summer.  You have the same goal as in November, 50k words in a month, but the format is slightly different.  First, all of the pep talks that arrive in your mailbox is camp themed, as is the site itself.  Second, rather than forums and grouping us into our districts, we're assigned cabin mates.  Five other people who are going through the exact same things as you, just trying to survive the month.

Last year, unfortunately, we weren't given a whole lot of notice.  It was about a week before July first that they said 'Hey, by the way, we'll be doing camp this year.'  and nanoers, as a collective, kind of gaped at them like they were trying to tell a joke that simply wasn't funny.

They weren't joking, however, and I was talked into the endeavour by a fellow nanoer.

July I managed to hit my goal (just barely.  I wrote about 25k of it in the last weekend.  It was crazy).  August, I didn't even come close, barely scratching 17k before giving up.  Even the novel I was working on ended up getting scrapped with a barely there plot (they pulled a Lord of the Rings and walked a lot) and characters whose motivations were murky (not to mention the twins who kept switching ages on me...)  With that short of notice, the MLs didn't even have time to consider setting up additional write ins.

It was a tough two months.  On one hand I was glad that OLL decided to set up nano in other months as well (really, once a year just isn't enough) on the other with how badly I did, I almost felt like I shouldn't have even bothered.

This year, of course, we had much more notice (not to mention the fact that the two sessions of Camp are a month apart, running June and August this year).  I wasn't originally planning on doing either session, but a friend of mine won't be able to join us in August, and I wanted to nano with her.  So I wrote up a plot (okay, I started the novel in April and didn't have time to finish it, so that's what I'm working on.)

The title of this book is Pandora.  It's about a female assassin who happens to be a werewolf.  I've never written a character like her before, and I'm finding her to be so much fun.  I love the things she says, and the replies she gets from the people in her life.

So far, at three days in, I'm sitting at 27337 words (54774 words for the novel, as I had already started it) and I'm not even close to regretting the decision to participate.  And doing this session certainly doesn't mean that I'm not going to do the other ones.  By the end of 2012 I fully intend to have one novel out to agents, and five novels written.

I only hope that I'll actually get to sleep in December.

Happy camping to all my fellow nanoers!  I hope your muse smiles on you fondly this month.  May your word counts soar, and your plot remain strong.  Good luck!

How To Kill Your Characters

As a reader, I have a couple pet peeves when it comes to the books and series that I read.  One of those is when an author cops out.  When they set up huge battle scenes, but somehow every single character manages to survive.  This may seem like a good thing, because my favourite characters get to live!  Shouldn't I be happy?  The thing is, I would prefer being connected to the story more.  To get upset over the lose of a character.  I may be mad, but I will keep coming back to see what the author is going to do next.  I hate it when the author is unwilling to lose a character.  I understand the feeling, but sometimes the story just isn't as good if they don't make the hard decision.

On the flip side are the authors who kill off all of their characters.  Maybe they're overcompensating for keeping a small group of main characters alive, but whatever the reason their characters are slaughtered left and right.  Characters that I've fallen in love with and never wanted to see die.  I know, I know.  This sounds like a complete contradiction to what I was saying before.  The problem comes when all of my favourites are killed off.  It's no longer a question of wondering who's going to die, or thinking that it could be anyone, because at the end of the day nearly every character is being buried.

So, as a writer, how do I use these pet peeves to make my writing better?

I don't want to be the writer that my readers hate.  I don't want to kill of all of their favourite characters (but I really don't mind one or two).  I want my readers to get mad and throw my book across the room, only to go pick it up a couple of minutes later because they have to know what's going to happen.

Now, of course, I've managed to develop a bit of a complex.  I'm terrified to kill off a character, because what if it's the wrong character?  What if I lose my readers because that was the one character that kept them reading the books?  What if I don't kill any characters, and my readers get bored or annoyed because they're going through all of these dangerous situations and nobody ever dies?  How do I find that happy medium where the readers get mad, but don't boycott the books?

I've come to realize that this is an issue that most writers probably struggle with.  Who do you kill off, and who gets the happy ever after ending?

In the series I've been working on I have a character that has had a lot of ups and downs.  Originally I thought he was going to be one of my favourites, but have realized that he's not as great as I thought.  Often I find myself calling him a jackass, and basically wanting to punch him.  Near the end of the book he starts to redeem himself, and in the next one I know he'll probably get back up there as one of my favourites.  So, of course, he's going to be dying.

I'm terrified about this decision.  I know he needs to die, because I need that catalyst to bind the group together while still breaking them apart.  (I realize that doesn't make sense, but I can't explain it without ruining the book, which I refuse to do!)  I need to it happen, but I'm scared that he'll redeem himself too much.  that my readers will start to imagine his life, will start to hope for him to be with one of the other couples.  That killing him off will do more than just make them cry.  (Though, if they do cry, I think I would be elated.  Not cause they're crying, of course, but because I did my job as an author.)

While this fear makes me occasionally think that I'm not going to do it.  That I'm going to let him live, I know that I can't do that.  I have to stick to my guns.  The character needs to die, and I can't allow myself to back down from the challenge.

I've decided to give myself a goal, in order to help myself overcome the fear that I've managed to develop.  My goal is to kill off enough characters that my readers never know who could die next.  This is almost strategic in that main characters have to die.  Characters that they thought I would never kill off will have to be killed.  I still have to make sure, though, that I'm not killing so many characters that my readers become jaded.  That they start to think that everyone is going to die and just put the book down because what's the point.

It's going to be a challenge, but I'm up for it.  I'll have to say a few tearful goodbyes, but in the end, the story will be the better for it, and isn't that really what writing is all about?

Sad Scenes

I've been in hard core editing mode for the last couple days.  I've had to be.  My project, The Commons, is due out to beta readers by the fifteenth, and I'm not nearly done with it.  Unfortunately I've hit a little bit of a glitch.

Usually these glitches occur when I'm finding myself having to rewrite a scene.  I hate having to redo work that I've already done.  It doesn't matter that I know the scene will be so much better when I'm done the rewrite, it just kills me to throw out those words and start over fresh.

This time, though, it had absolutely nothing to do with the editing or rewriting.  It has to do with the scene itself.

This particular scene isn't one I enjoyed writing in the first place.  In previous projects I've had torture scenes that I've thoroughly enjoyed writing, but this one, well, nothing could be further from the truth.  I knew it was coming the entire book, of course.  I had it written into the very plot.  A character was supposed to die.

Here's the thing about books.  They never quite turn out the way you thought they would.  In fact, there's always some element that changes between the plot and the actual first draft.  In this project, that change was the character that had to die.

Originally that girl was a nobody.  Somebody that popped up for the simple sake of killing her off.  I wasn't supposed to get attached.  My characters weren't really supposed to get attached.  They should know her, but they shouldn't care about her.  Unfortunately that didn't happen.

Okay, I say unfortunately, but I don't really mean that.  The change was a good thing.  If my characters hadn't gotten attached, the death wouldn't have meant as much.  It wouldn't have had the impact that I know it's going to have on my readers, once it makes it that far.  I love how it turned out, and I wouldn't change it for anything.

The problem is, that's the same effect it has on me.  I loved her.  She was this quiet little girl who hung around in a library, but she had backbone.  Courage that nobody really knew she had until that last moment.  I loved her because she was afraid, and she still tried to do what she thought was best.  At least for her.  I loved her.

Editing that scene was so much harder than I thought it would be.  I found myself not wanting to read it.  It's a gruesome death.  Reading it made me cringe, which was exactly how I want my readers to react.  If they don't already hate the people who do that to her, I want them to as of that moment.

It just wasn't supposed to happen to me.  I wasn't supposed to be that effected by it.

I know I'm not the only one whose ever been through this.  I've heard other writers having the same problem as me.  We all want our writing to effect other people, but don't think about how we'll feel as we're writing or editing it.

It's one of the challenges we face as writers.  We have to get past those scenes.  At least enough to get it written well.  To make other people feel what we want them to feel.  But we need to distance ourselves, at least a little, from the books that we're writing so that we can do what needs to be done, to get that book to where it needs to be.

The Commons - A YA novel

Alright, I know that I just posted yesterday, but I have been shown a very interesting link by a friend.  One that brought me to a contest.  And, as I pointed out in my blog yesterday, I may be slightly competitive, and so find that I am unable to resist entering this.  Check out Brenda Drake's Blog for further details.  Unfortunately the contest ends tomorrow, but I'm hoping that at least some of you get to see this.  Anyway, the entry is requested on the blog as well as in the comments, so here goes:

Title: The Commons
Genre: YA dystopian
Word Count: 101,000

Pitch:  At the end of the Great War, the world split into two societies: The Commons and The Techs.  Now the two worlds are about to collide, and neither will ever be the same again.

First 150 words:

Once these streets had been filled with tall buildings. Large concrete structures where the people went to work every day. Streets that spanned for miles that were constantly jammed with an endless stream of cares. It was hard to believe that this was all that was left. Only one grey building stretched up to the sky, but even the top of that one was jagged and unstable. The rest of the street consisted mostly of piles of concrete.

It was an all too familiar sight to Arisa, who had been travelling to all the city ruins. Each one seemed to be worse than the last, until she had arrived here. She did not know what city it had once been, but from the remains she would guess it had been hit hard in the great war.

Arisa let these thoughts run through her head as she stared around herself.

The Epic Year of Querying

As some of you may have noticed, I didn't post last week.  I was planning on it, I truly was, but I was also at my grandmother's house, which doesn't have wireless internet.  So, instead, I decided to skip the week and take a Christmas vacation.

This year I'm going to be doing a few things different on my blog.  First of all, if you will kindly look to the sidebar, you will see a box entitled 'The Epic Year of Querying'.  This is where I will keep all of you updated on the progress of my writing/editing/querying.  I will update it every week along with my blog post.

Also, this year I will be doing my best to put my blog more in the eye of the writing public.  This means that you could see things such as guest blogs, character interviews, reviews on books, and participation in blog scavenger hunts.  I'm very excited for the first of these which should be happening in the next week or two.

This will be the year that I put myself out there.  That I look at my blogging as another step in my writing goals, rather than something I'm doing because it looked like fun.  Where I start to truly take myself seriously as a writer.  Where I don't give up on a writing project because I'm starting to feel like it needs far too much work.

It has been over a year now since I came to the realization that I am, in fact, a writer.  Since the beginning of nano 2010 I have written 9 novels.  5 of those have been pushed aside as not worth the time to edit, but the rest I'm going to do something with.  It may take a lot of editing.  It may make me want to rip the hair out of my head, but I am going to get them published!

I have two close friends also taking part in the Epic Year of Querying with me:

Eric Satchwill
B.A. Matthews

I'm excited to see how each of us do in this challenge.

I would also like to invite anyone else who wants to join in the adventure to do so.  Comment here and leave me your blog address.  I'll make sure to add you to the total counts!!

2012 is going to be an awesome year (right up to when the world ends, of course...) I can't wait to see what it will bring!

Challenge Accepted

At the beginning of the month I was challenged by a friend of mine to write a blog post every day of the month. And this is on top of my goal of 300, 000 words written for NaNoWriMo. I, being someone who has a hard time refusing such challenges, of course said yes.

Earlier in the month, that friend managed to miss a day. And, I’ll admit, I might have been a little petty in my taunting of her. After all, she was the one to issue the challenge, and she was the one who had missed a day. I was having a great time, making fun of her for missing that day.

Well, last night I forgot to post a blog. I can give you my excuses (I had been trying to get some writing done and had gotten really frustrated and tired, so I gave up and decided to give myself a bit of a day off. I figured I could catch up later and I ended up watching some tv shows and just going to bed.) but the fact of it is, I missed a day.

I actually went to bed, it was just after midnight, snuggled under the covers, and my eyes flew open as I realized that I had never posted anything…it was a saddening moment. If you had been there, you would have cried. I swear it.

So now I’m am blogless on the 23^rd, and I keep staring at my blog thinking ‘I’m only going to have 29 posts for November’ and there’s really nothing I can do about that. Except make two blog posts in one day, and I think that might be cheating. In fact, it is cheating, and who would be happy with that? Not me…

I’m expecting much taunting and teasing when I see her on Saturday, and I will accept nothing less. After all, we’ve both missed a day now. Neither of us can claim to have won this challenge. Perhaps it’s one we’ll try again next year. And if it is, I know that I’ll end the month with that perfect number 30 showing beside November.

What I do know is that I’ve already run out of topics to post about. Hence this post about a missed post. Who knows what I’ll write about tomorrow! Though it may involve monkeys…

Anyway, I am officially recommitting myself to this challenge. As of today I will not miss another day this month. That number will not fall below 29!

Next years New Years Resolution: Stop accepting insane challenges.