i believe in love and the darker it gets, the more i do

Happy New Year to those who celebrate it at this time of the year.

We're still here, all of us who are reading this. We're still here and isn't that wild? Like, we have defied everything that has tried to kill us, tried to keep us down and are still here for a little while longer.

I'm glad I'm here, there have been times when I wasn't glad, but right now, as I drink some coffee and type on this laptop, I'm happy I'm here and that you are too.

If I don't see you tomorrow, that's okay. The world is harsh right now, it's painful to exist against the landscape we're in right now, and if you can't handle it, if you can't make it to tomorrow for whatever reason, I loved knowing you. But if I do see you, if you read this and survive to see the sunrise/sunset, I'm happy for you.

Here's to a new year with new (and hopefully better) things.

Write Every Day: Day 1

Today is the start of my hosting WED, so below, find all that stuff.  Briefly, in related news, I got another story acceptance, which was super exciting, as it was a venue I really liked the look of.  I need to still sign the contract and such but I will be doing that tomorrow, so yay!

Anyway, onto the WED stuff...

What is Write Every Day?

Write Every Day is a challenge where you make the effort to well, write every day.  A host (me!) is responsible for putting up a post each day in a month for you to come check in, talk about your writing (or lack of), cheer people on and all that jazz.  The host will keep a tally of people who've been writing and will put up that tally on the next day's post as a way to encourage people ot keep a streak going..

Checking in every day isn't mandatory though!  However, if you want to come drop into the comments and flail about your troubles with writing, that's perfectly acceptable as well. 

What I personally enjoy about this challenge is that there's no minimum word count.  People do alibi sentences and that still counts.  The point is to chip away a little each day, so even if you only write a few words, it still counts and that is awesome.

Goals:

If you have some goals you'd like to share for the month, feel free to do so  This is a big writing month for so many people because of NaNo but I personally am not shooting for that goal.  Instead, I'm aiming to get four to six short stories drafted and edited by the end of the month.  We'll see how it goes but I have hope!

What are you aiming to accomplish this month?  And if you have no goals, that's fine too.  Do whatever works best for you. 

Today's Writing:

I didn't get much sleep last night, so I'm posting this early, that way I can nap.  I got about 900 words of my 'Queer lady makes friends with ghosts and eventually the living' story and talked about working on a few other things over the next few months with friends and for myself.

Not too bad, considering I was having a hell of a time starting my brain up today.

How did you guys do?  Anything interesting pop up in your writing today?   And if you couldn't get words out, what's got you stuck? Maybe someone in the comments might have some helpful hints.