I have been CHALLENGED.

Good evening, dear readers!

I am both happy and somewhat frightened to report that I have been challenged to complete the second book in my Camlain quartet. My dear friend Mary Beth is dragging me graciously allowing me to go with her to Savannah in June while she has to do some work for pharmacy school, and I plan to use the week as sort of my own writer's retreat. Originally, I was going to work on Autumn of Discord while at the beach that week; however, upon her re-read of Summer of Betrayal, Mary Beth decided that she needed to read what happened next and proceeded to challenge me to complete Autumn of Discord before our trip to the beach so that she had something to look forward to during her long hours of being endlessly drilled about names of obscure drugs.

So here I am, just under two months away from this deadline she challenged me to meet. I have the first five pages that I wrote back during NaNoWriMo when I thought I would be able to bang out a first draft, and tonight I plan to sit down and at least broadly outline what happens in Autumn of Discord.

Tomorrow, I begin writing. I will continue to blog through this process, hopefully every few days/week, in order to keep myself accountable. (Yeah, yeah, I know you've heard that before. I keep coming back, don't I?)

Let's see if I can do this.