Last night I passed the 32K mark.  I've never made it to 30K in one of these challenges so this is a huge milestone for me.  I've had to cut out most of my online activities to get to this point as otherwise the time would not have materialized.  I still have 18K words to go but I am encouraged that if I continue to forge ahead and the Lord blesses my efforts, I will make it to that coveted goal of 50K words in 30 days. 

This has been an extremely emotional journey so far.  You absolutely know this to be true when you read the week three "pep talk" email from Chris Baty and you start crying at the end of it.  At the same time I'm actually excited about diving into the editing stage of this manuscript next month.  Until then, I've got 18K words to bring this story to a close.

I would love to write more about the last few weeks but I feel I've used up every word available to me in this challenge.  Any creative flare has been pored into it and so I am left with choppy thoughts and ill-thought out sentences for this blog post.