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This is a MUST do.

I will be a published novelist, even if I'm older than Grandma Moses when it happens.  With any luck, I won't have to wait quite that long.

This has been a dream for as long as I can remember.  There are chapter books I wrote in fourth and fifth grade written on wheaty brown school paper locked in a box somewhere at my parents' house.  They'd be comical to read now, but I took writing seriously and did it every day - a habit I need to reestablish. 

There are 550 days until my fortieth birthday.  I vow to add to my working novel every one of those 550 days, even if it's sometimes just a sentence. 

 And there it is in writing, a vow to finish this novel before I turn forty.  Keep me on task, please.