I'm a wiener!



November 30, 2015 will go down as the day I reached 50K words after a thirty-day endeavour to write my first novel. November 30 is also Lucy Maud Montgomery's date of birth. As anyone who knows me can attest, I've always wanted to be LM Montgomery. 

Having achieved this goal, I feel like I have a leg up on my writing career. 

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