Note for new arrivals: The 10K Day starts on the morning of Thursday, June 18. Your exact starting time is up to you.
WELCOME TO ALL those plucky writers who are participating today!
This is the place to post your check-ins.
If you develop a case of writer’s block—or if you need some extra ideas about what to write—you’ll find all those 10K Day links compiled here.
DON’T FORGET TO HAVE REGULAR BREAKS!
You’ll regret it later (when you get burnt out) if you don’t take regular breaks. Even if you’re on fire with your writing, take your scheduled breaks. Every two hours is recommended. Breaks are also for posting check-ins.
WHAT SHOULD YOU POST FOR YOUR CHECK-INS?
Comment moderation will be turned off for the day so your posts should appear right away.
Keep check-ins fairly brief:
1. You can mention your word count if you want to. If you’d rather not, please provide a general comment about your progress thus far.
2. You can also describe what you’re working on.
3. Feel free to mention how you’re feeling and how the day is going for you.
4. It’s always fun to hear what people are drinking, snacking on or listening to.
5. Check-ins only. Please DO NOT post your writing! (The comment section will become unwieldy if everyone tries to posts their stories.)
6. If you have any special revelations or remarkable experiences, please give the mini-version. All of you will be invited to write about your 10K Day on my blog after it’s over.
Don’t forget to log out of forums, Facebook, Twitter, your email, etc.
Go gettum, Tigers! – Milli
P.S. As a ritual before you start writing, check out this poem from Sharon Kane written especially for my blog: The Gate Keeper. It can be used as a prayer to get in the right frame of mind for your 10K Day—in loving cooperation with the gatekeeper of your imagination instead of in a power struggle :~)
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RULES & TIPS
Survival Tips, Productivity Tricks
GOT WRITER’S BLOCK? TRY THESE . . .
Use the Whiplash of Your Inner Critic to Make It Across the Drawbridge
Here’s an example of doing the above but with a fictional character instead, by Patti Stafford (10K Day participant). Look for the second entry on this page; it’s entitled writer’s lament.
Four of Milli’s Fertile Material prompts
10 Tips for Using the Fertile Material Writing Prompts
New Writing Prompt: Sparkling Beasts & Glimmering Gods
Milli’s Zodiac Writing Prompts: Aries / Taurus / Gemini
Writing for Spiritual Growth
(Free e-course! When you sign up you’ll get the first lesson right away—but the first lesson contains an audio interview; either save it for later or listen in advance so it doesn’t cut into your writing time.)
7 Fun Writing Challenges from Sunflower Ranch
MOTIVATIONAL ARTICLES
Writing Dialogue: Don’t Freak Yourself Out
How I Am Overcoming My Inner Critic and My Fear of Success by Lois Eighmy
A Writer Kissed by Inspiration (helpful for memoir writers)
10 Things to Celebrate About Being a Writer
Rocky Balboa’s Speech to Writers




Time for 2nd break. Only reached 2,855 words, but after a night of insomnia I'm allowing myself to go at whatever pace works.
Right now feeling a big brain drain. Plus I'm still in my jammies. I might take a longer break, eat lunch, go for a walk in Mill Creek Park (always have to restrain myself from typing "Milli" Creek Park) and then have a shower/get dressed.
That's if I find the energy to do all that. Oh, yeah, finished the zodiac writing prompt and article for Elemental Musings and wrote four posts for my new (nothing-on-it-yet) blog, Milliver's Travels.
I'm at 7,550! *happy dance*
After my previous break, I started up again at 10:00 and wrote straight through 'til 12:30 with only really short breaks to make tea (I'm now back to my usual bottled water).
Jason has hung out with his new "friends" and has gotten high with them. That's very bad for a kid who's trying to figure out where he belongs and who he is.
He's gone on a date with Maddy and it went well, but he's about to run into the gang again…and maybe get into some trouble which just may make his life spiral out of control.
I'm about to post my progress on Blogger and LiveJournal, then I'm getting back to work.
Sounds like everyone's having fun with this! Keep up the good work, y'all!
Lois
Welcome, Jackie! deMented Mom) from BC. I was just writing about Canada for my new travel blog.
That makes us 16 now. What a great crowd!
BTW, with some of you coming up for third and fourth breaks, don't forget the free stretches e-book for your stiff backs and limbs. You'll find the link for it in the Survival Tips article (scroll up on this looooong post to the links area – it's in the first section).
Okay, lots happened–daughter came home from a sleepover. Pizza hut delivered. Hubby needed help putting together super-easy crock-pot food, and I took an hour break in there to have a half P'zone
So, my total for the last 3hours is: 1255
Which brings my grand total to 6446.
At least I'm almost to the gargoyle scene I've been wanting to write. It's coming up next!
Warmly,
Jenny:)
I'm about to get back to it, but thought I'd mention that I made an icon especially for this event. I'm so into this! Can you tell?
You can find it in my Blogger blog, in the most recent entry.
2,811! About to take a break and head to a Dr's appt, but hubby's picking up the kiddo so I can stop by the coffee shop for an hour after and plug away. I will do my absolute BEST to make this goal [the 10K, because the 5K looks in the definite works now]!! Even if I have to stay up until midnight! [that *is* allowed, right??]
~ Jimmy
Whew! This is fun. I've been restarting my novel about a boy who runs away from home and have been developing the scenes that lead him to the inescapable conclusion that flying the coup is his only hope. The inciting incident is looming. It's so much easier when I can't allow myself to agonize over how to present the material, develop the plot and sub plot, and make the words pretty.
I'm already over 2,000 words and it keeps spilling out. Bless the 10k originator and you, Milli for throwing out the hook!
Gotta move around before I grow chair roots and develop vining tenacles that wrap me into the computer and I get lost to the miggly world. (Miggly: what people call reality)
Saundra M
Way to go Lois! All that time spent writing since NaNoWriMo has certainly helped you in today's goal.
After an extended break (not of my planing), I'm just now getting back to my story. Deep breath…and heeerree we go!
Ok, back in the saddle. Glad that's over and that didn't really feel like a break but I did rest my brain.
Now, here's the dumb question. I am on Word and for the life of me I can't find a word count. Column, line, paragraph. So anyone have an average number of words per page? I feel really stupid. But I've been blazing out some pages. So I know I'm very productive and waiting for it to get harder. I got over the editing thing and really thinking of it more as pre-first draft.
Marilyn, to get your word count, highlight your block of text and then look in the menu at the top of the screen for Tools. When you click on Tools you'll see Word Count, usually second in the drop-down list. XOXO
OK, guys, I really cheated in the break. I *edited* a blog post and then uploaded it, taking the time to choose two images to go with.
In my own defense, one of my big goals today was to write a bunch of posts for my brand new blog, Milliver's Travels. I've got four so far . . . but I couldn't resist christening the blog by posting the first one.
Here it is for anyone who has a five minutes for some light reading:
Who's Milliver?
I was really, really tired earlier (night of insomnia) but now I feel revived!
I took a longer break than I had planned. I won't reach the 10K, but like I've mentioned it's not so much about the numbers for me. With that said, I've churned out 3426 words–ALL fiction. Which is 3422 words more than I thought I'd get out. LOL I expected to start with, "Once Upon a time", and that be the end of it. But I've got 2 flash fiction and another -something–it's more like a self talk but it does have a story line.
The main thing is I'm having fun and accomplishing something. My total writing time has only been roughly 3 hours, so 3400+ words is Awesome to me.
And I just looked at my portfolio on writing.com, so I should mention that it's been 3 years since I've written ANY fiction at all. So, I'm just extremely pleased.
This has been a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been a real emergency you'd be in a panic–but at least you'd have writing material. LOL
We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
Wow – everyone seems to be having such a great time – even when plagued with distractions we're all still getting those words out!
I've had another break too as I had to do school runs and then cook supper etc (I know we're supposed to get someone else to do these chores at such a time but I'm not very good at asking for "seemingly" no reason. Hub wouldn't understand so I just got on with it). Anyway… I'm now up to 6328. On a normal day I would have been happy with around 2000 – or even 1000 but this is not a normal day. So I'm going to give it one last blast and see where it gets me lol! Keep going everyone – you can do it!
Milli, I feel like such a dunce. Holly Cow! I've written 6,847!!! Wooohooo!. I don't feel so guilty for going to the store and wasting what I thought was too much time. I think I will take a little quick meditation break for about 30 minutes. Maybe I'll fall asleep.
3700 wqrds. And, more than that, I am getting a grip on this story. it's not well written but I am getting a sense of what I need to do to make it good.
BTW, Milli. Carolyn Howard-Johnson said for me to tell you hello.
~ Mindy
Hi! I have 3,091 words in 2 1/2 hours. Not bad for a start, I guess.
Hope everyone else is having fun!
:-):-)
Okay, I've seen an inquiry to the place that accepts flash fiction. Another major step. Plus added about 100 more words to a guest blog post I've been working on.
@Down the Rabbit Hole – I've actually been more productive word wise today AND still managed to get my daily home chores done too. It's almost time to start supper. I didn't make it to the store, but surely I can throw something together and still get more writing done.
Having a Blast!
You all Rock! Keep up the good work!
Hmm…our better or other halfs, however you wish to put it, might wonder why it is we can get so much done in one day when we don't normally. I think we should tell them we'll crash and burn in a little while, so don't disturb us then?
I've now spent a total of 4 hours on my story and have 1,986 words to show for it. Actually, this is the best I've done ever, with the most at @1,500 for a (coughing) school paper due the next day. Hi, my name is Maria and I'm a procrastinator!
Okay, this time it's really (almost) not my fault
I only wrote 1887 words. This time, I kept track though, starting a half hour into this last two hour block because it was getting crazy:
1:30—Fight over soda solved
1:43—Solved missing email from Molly to Jimmy and Faye
2:00—Took call from Molly’s friend (where’s hubby?)
2:08—share with Lori how filling Lunch was
2:16—UPS Delivery—Eddie Asks if Chicken Smells Good
2:24—Repeated request for AC turns into giggle fest and finally hubby turns it on
2:26—Rattling and funky smell mean new filter—which hubby doesn’t smell or hear
2:27—Hubby says, “I’ve got another idea.” Uh-oh.
2:28—Good idea hubby—Febreeze works!
2:31—Apparently requests for AC don’t include closing the windows and turning off the fans that are blowing hot air into the house.
2:34—Try to kill myself with the fan cord as I move it to a ‘cooler’ position
2:36—Rescue Molly who has sandwiched herself between the couch and wall—and kicked her brother in the eye as he tried to pull her out.
2:53—Helped Molly get set up with her watercolor painting at the kitchen table
3:02—Eddie’s carefully balanced fan falls and I hurry to pick it up—where’s hubby?
So my total as of right now is: 8333
Okay, off to try and work for another two hours–I think I've had more of a two hour break this time around, all the hopping up and down I've done!
Warmly,
Jenny:)
I did it!!!!!
I'm at 11,702 words currently, but I plan on reaching 15,000 by the time I stop!
In about an hour and a half, I've written 4,147 words. Woohoo! *happy dance*
Jason hung out with his friends, getting drunk and high, and then they went and stole cigarettes from a convenience store. They were discovered and Jason…ONLY Jason…was caught. His dad was called to pick him up. When they got home, his dad started beating him up, but he fought back. His dad grabbed his hunting rifle and shot at him and poor Jason was shot in the side pretty bad. Now his so-called "friends" want nothing more to do with him! Maddy's mother shut him out and won't help him. He's kind of wandered around, weakly, and found himself at the lake where Zane and Matheu have found him. They've taken him to Zane's house and he's being cared for. He's now unconscious, thankfully!
Next up: Jason and Zane have a good long heart to heart talk where Jason tells him everything that's been going on with him.
By the way, thanks Maria!
(That WAS you, wasn't it?)
Congrats to everyone for putting in the effort, whatever your word counts! You're all winners in my book!
And I'm not done yet. I'll be done when I reach 15,000!
Catastrophe has struck my house and I have to stop. A friend needs a shoulder to cry on, and it looks as if I'm it. Have to leave in ten minutes, and I'm still in my pajamas and my hair's not combed. Pitiful word count for today–4,444 words–but better than I've done in a long time. Keep working everybody, I'll check in tomorrow and feel properly ashamed of myself.
Sorry to hear about that, Maria. You know, you can do this any day you want. It doesn't just have to be today. I'd be willing to do it with you, if you'd like.
Lois
Maria, you did great! And I love the symmetry of your word count: 4,444.
I plan to do a 10K Day twice a month from now on. It doesn't have to be a huge event like this one every time–but now that my blog is set up with the how-to articles, I'll announce each 10K date in a blog post and anyone who wants to can join me.
Milli,
I just read your comment over on my Musings blog. Just wanted to let you know I've made another icon and it'll be up in an hour and a half or so…when I reach 15,000 words.
Good luck, everyone! Keep plodding (plotting?) away!
So far I'm up to 8030 and very tempted to call it a night now. It's far more than I would normally do in a day and it's been useful too.
Well done to everyone who has made it past the 10K and to anyone who hasn't yet, don't despair; you've already done something pretty awesome and tomorrow (or any other day) is another day.
4000 words –
I am sinning. There was something I needed to know for my story and, with a perfectly good 80,000-square-foot library around me, I did a little research.
I can't believe how into this story I am getting. I think this is the beginning of a consistent personal writing practice.
I should be able to speed up now.
~ Mindy
I know I'm not due to chime in for another hour yet–but I decided to take an hour and go for a walk. I needed the extra time today as I was a naughty girl and went to be at 11pm.
But I wanted to just say that I am so very, very thrilled to read everyone's progress. I think anything *more* than you would normally write, anything *new* that you learned about yourself, anything you *discovered* about your project(s) that you hadn't before–because you gave yourself persmission to be a writer today–is AWESOME!
That's what this is all about–not word counts–but challenging yourself to fulfill your potential, whatever that may be. If it's being slower at word count, but finding the depths you can reach as a creative writer, then that's what it's for. If it's knowing that you can push yourself to get it on the page, than that's what it's for.
I'm just bursting at the seams right now–so proud of everyone!
Warmly,
Jenny:)
Exactly what I needed to hear, Jenny :~)
Me being the organizer, and having broken the 10K barrier before, I naturally expected to have a productive day today. But I had such a bad night of insomnia last night, I've been struggling all day to keep my brain awake and my word count is pretty low.
But I am excited about all the blog posts and writing prompts I've written today. And I feel serene, so that's a really nice bonus.
Thanks, Milli, for admiring my 4444 word count, but this particular "anonymous" is Susan, your old Chicki's friend, not Maria, who, I'm sure, is a very wonderful person, too. Good news–the friend didn't need a shoulder, just an insurance agent. So I'm good to go for another hour or so and then I have to hang it up for good (for today). Thanks. This was great. I'll let everybody know my final word count when I pry my cold, feel-like-dead fingers off the keyboard.
Susan
Hi, Susan! I apologize for mixing you up with Maria, who is also posting as Anonymous (sorry, Maria!). I'm glad your friend found someone else to help her so you could continue, at least for another hour.
I'm so tired from my night of insomnia I keep threatening to quit. But I'm enjoying it, so I guess I'll keep going until I can no longer function or write coherently ;~D
Hey all, I just came to a natural stopping place in my story and low and behold, I am a proud writer now at 10,174. How about them apples. I think I'll bag it. Last night I made my husband bring something home for dinner and I feel I own him a home cooked meal since we have been out of town all week. I need to feed the dogs and the horses and then it will be time to start dinner.
Milli, thanks so much for being such an inspiration and such a great idea. I never dreamed I would write anything any way near 10k words. I feel proud and I feel I have really got a good start on the beginning of my Mikey Dog book.
Susan Maria, thanks for doing this with me. It really helped to have a local Fearer and we actually kept in touch with separate emails. I will be joining you Milli for the next ones you do and together, with all of you maybe I can actually get a book done.
Cheers to you all it has been so much fun being in touch all around the world! It is still mind boggling. Milli, go to bed.
4,000+!!
Being lazy and not checking the word-count exactly, since I'm adding to a fic I'd already been working on and dropped months ago. =ppp
But I'm very proud and still at it! Even if I stopped now I can proudly say – as my best friend does – "Well, that's 4K more than you'd have written if you hadn't done it, right?"
hehehehe
Oh, and a huge CONGRATS to everyone who's already made the 10K mark!! ^__^
My brain is somewhat mushy at the moment, so individual congrats are being lumped into one big, fat congrats to anyone who made the 10K and everyone who tried.
Yes, the brain is mushy but the words are still coming if I concentrate. It's almost 6pm here and I have 7420 words to show for my day at the laptop. I will make 10K, but I may need to do it in 1K increments. Like jogging a marathon and I'm at about the 23 mile mark (not that I've ever been in a marathon or ever will be LOL)
I have some funny stories from the course of the day to blog about & hope to get those on my blog in the next day or two. I'll be back at least once more tonight to make the official announcement of 10K.
Til then, happy writing everyone
Beth
Like Wow! You guys are the greatest – Hey, Mills, you must be so happy that the response to your bid to get a 10k day funlenge was so good.
It's 0802 her in Oz, Friday morning and I guess y'all are still tapping away and – yes, singing the Writehide song. You inspired me to: Get along little Dogie
Get along little keyboard
Get along
Put the letters in the words where they belong.
Just try not to edit
and you can get the credit
When the end of your ten K comes along.
I'm off to labor now, my show today is 1959 (www.2mce.org)
Write on, folks.
Write on.
Hey! break for dinner.
I can't put off walking out the door one more minute. I don't have much of a word count compared to the rest of you–AND I AM SO PROUD OF MY FRIEND, MARILYN, WITH HER 10K+–but I'm 4,878 words closer to the end than I was this time yesterday. I've been wrestling with the trauma of killing off my sweet old lady for the last several months. She's still not dead, well, she is, but nobody realizes it yet, but it took the better part of the last hour just to get to that point. Milli, thanks again. I promise to be a better email correspondent although that might have to wait until this wedding is over. This has been fun and challenging,and since I didn't really anticipate 10,000 words anyway, I'm happy with what I accomplished. Now I have a sore neck and if I don't leave soon, I'm going to be late for my dinner. Love to all.
Susan
I had another nice surprise, I got to chat with a friend online that I haven't talked to in awhile–so my word count is still the same, but I did send a query out and may be able to write some more this evening.
It's been an Awesome Day!
Congrats to everyone who's having FUN! Like it was said earlier, it's not the count—it's the FUN and accomplishment of celebrating being a writer. So if you've had fun, you deserve adoration.
I'll check in again later!
Write On!
Hi Susan, this is Maria. I agree with you, we may not have reached the 10K goal but we are closer than yesterday. I believe I am done for the day at just under 3,000 words. I have to go soon to 'supervise' my guys out in the yard and garden or else chaos may ensue. (Hey wait a minute, I haven't counted my postings. Hmmm, I wonder how many words this makes?)
Anyway, Milli, I'll be keeping an eye on the blog to see when your next 10K day will be. Thanks for the opportunity to get myself in gear and back into writing seriously.
Lois, congratulations for reaching your goal and then some. Also, thanks for the vote of encouragement. Stacey from the writing group at SweetBay also would like to try this, so maybe in between we can talk some of the others into trying it out as well.
To everyone else, it's been a fun day and I look forward to meeting up here again!
5000 words.
I didn't make the full count but this is the most words I have written at one time in years. Although I am stopping to get ready for my trip tomorrow, I am NOT stopping work on my story. My computer is going with me.
Thank you, Milli, SO MUCH for engaging my brain and motivating me to keep my kester in the chair and write. I don't have a single excuse for not continuing now.
~ Mindy
I reached my personal goal and surpassed it with a grand total of 15,410 words for today. Wow! I never, EVER thought I could write so many words in one day! I guess my muse is going strong and I type faster than I think!
Well, in this section, Jason told Zane all about what's been going on in his life since his mother died five years earlier. He's told him about the abuse from his dad and the moving around and such. He told him why his father shot him, too…including the fact that he was drinking and smoking pot with his former "friends." Zane's father has offered to let him stay with them for a while, until they can find some place more permanent for him.
It's Christmas afternoon right now in my story and Jason got to spend some time with Maddy, thanks to Zane calling her mother and talking her into letting Maddy visit for a while.
I don't know if I'll do any writing tomorrow, but if I do, it'll just be a little bit (boy, are my wrists sore!). It was fun and I would LOVE to do this again!
Congrats to everyone who reached the 10K mark. To those who haven't, just have fun and keep pushing forward. If you reach 10K, great. If you don't, you still have the satisfaction of trying and of writing words that never would have been written if you hadn't participated.
Hey, Maria! Glad you came and participated. It was fun to have someone I've met IRL join in.
Congrats on the almost 3,000 words you wrote today! It's cool that Stacy wants to participate, too.
It would definitely be cool if we could get the rest of the Yetis in on it.
I wish I could keep up with responding to everyone's fabulous news. I extend my most sincere congrats to everyone who has broken the 10K barrier!
I believe the best part about doing that is the way it shows you what you're capable. But I hear that same feeling come from others with lesser word counts. So the feeling is first (parody of a line from an ee cummings poem) and then the details of the achievement.
After a shower and dinner cooked by hubby plus a small glass of red wine, I've finally broken the 5K mark. Boo for insomnia, hooray for persistence and great writing companions!
That's awesome, Milli!
And having the hubby cook dinner is great! I think my guys would starve if they had to cook for themselves!
And on that note, I'm outta here to shower and fix dinner. I won't be online again until tomorrow morning, so I want to say an early congrats to everyone who hasn't reached 10K yet (or their own personal goals)!
5,837 words and Milli I'm right there with you! I'm still going to try to stay up as long as I can tonight just plugging away. Doubting I can make the 10K goal, but still astounded at how well I've done so far.
Thanks go to you Milli and all who posted – reading your updates were pleasant and uplifting, spurring me on even when things slowed down. ^_^
~ Jimmy
Go, Jimmy! 5,837 words is amazing for a writer who had to also work her day job!
I'm about to take my fifth break but I'm on a second wind now so intend to keep going. It looks like I might be able to knock over almost everything I included on my list of writing goals today. I've invented 11 new writing prompts and written 13 blog posts (most of them for my new travel writing blog so I'm very excited about that).
*Waving* at everyone who's still with us this evening.
Hey everyone,
We had a rough night here, but I finally reached my goal just now: 10179 words. Yay!
I only got 1846 words after the last time I checked in, but it's taken me this long to get through it. I'm proud that I did and looking forward to working on my book even more.
Kaylee rescued the "special" girl from an evil grandmother and stood up to the guards, getting beaten and bloody for her efforts. There's worse ahead, including MORE gargoyles, which is really cool
Logging off now, to watch The International and process contest entries for WRWA.
Take care everyone, congrats on your successes, and thank you Millikins, for as usual, you have been a wonderful hostess
Hugs!
Jenny:)
You'll never believe it…I finally made it! 10,642. Fiction up through 7,770 then nonfiction (blog post) to make up the difference.
Milli–fab idea. You've given me a story to mold and shape!
Everyone…thanks ever so much for coming along for the journey. Sorry this post is so brief–you can read all about my progress at my blog, so I won't repeat myself (I feel like I am!): The Day of 10,000 words
http://tinyurl.com/my5o2k
Keep the faith and keep writing. Stop by my blog and tell me how you did. I'd love to hear all about it
Happy writing,
Beth
I thought I was through for the day but sat back down in front of my computer as supper. My story was still open and I just couldn't close it. So now, I have broken the 3K barrier and have a whopping 3,393 words. I think the only time I've written that much in several day's time is at finals when I had 3 papers due the same week.
In my story, the frustrated young mother who wanted to write began a story about another frustrated young mother of two who just climbed out her study window one evening to get away from the stress of her life. The story lady goes on a sort of walkabout through the surrounding coutntryside only to end up in a small meadow several miles away. Since it's so late, she lays down to nap. At this point, the original writer lady wakes up, you guessed it, in a meadow at early morning. She has no idea how she got there or even where there is but eventually finds her way back home. When she gets there, she discovers the whole neighborhood and police are getting ready to look for her. Only she can't figure out what all the fuss is about. Her husband scoots her into the house as the neighbors whisper their best guesses as to why she was gone all night to each other…
The first rough draft is nearly finished (maybe around 4K). Obviously, there are still issues to work out for my main character. But if I can get to that point, it will be the first complete short story I've written. Maybe there's hope for me yet!
Thanks all and good night!
WOWOWOW!! Milli, you and these terrific writers are so impressive!!! What devotion and outstanding work habits!!! Everyone, I am in such awe of you all!! Keep up the great work!! Best wishes to you all for every success with what you've done today!! Congratulations all!!
Congratulations to everyone! We all did a smashing good job!
I only got about 3500 words in today, but the number wasn't my goal. My goal was to spend a whole (working) day on fiction, and I did.
Tomorrow is back to deadlines and articles, but now I know I can put in time for fiction and the world won't end. LOL.
Hope everyone had a fabulous day! Yes, we should do this once a month! Maybe the first Thursday of each month so we'd all know ahead of time and could plan. Any thoughts?
I'm calling it a night. Sweet Dreams All, or Good Morning/Afternoon depending on your location.
Had a blast!