We Have a Winner!

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On Friday (10/23/15), we had our first subscriber drawing for a $10 Amazon gift card. Congratulations to Greg, our first winner!

When I do a drawing, I'll always have MailChimp send a congratulations message to the winner at the end of the day. If you are the winner, I'll just need to confirm that I have the best e-mail address for having Amazon deliver your gift card. I'll also ask permission to mention your first name in a post on the site.

Once again, congratulations, Greg! Everyone else, please sign up for the newsletter to be included in the next drawing and stay tuned for additional announcements, giveaways, and other special offers!

Writing Underway. . .

It seems like we aspiring authors have a tendency to allow a myriad of items to prevent writing each day.  For me, the classic excuse is always something related to setup. . .I don’t have the blog set up, I need to get my Chromebook ordered and setup, I want to set up a Google script to automate daily word count logging (it turns out that zero words are easy to count, btw).  What it all comes down to is good old-fashioned procrastination.  If you read any successful author’s blog, you see the same advice over and over:  sit your BTU down (as my grandfather would say) and WRITE. . .consistently. . .every day!  Otherwise, forget about making progress and forget about improving your skills.  So, even though I have allowed a number of superfluous items to delay progress over the past few weeks, I have a daily goal in mind (initially a modest 500 words) and plan to stick to it.