Gentle Reader,

I have a new resolution: do what I say I am going to do. My resolution for tomorrow (that is to say, today), what I am going to do, is tell you why I am going to do this. Anyway…

Ashleigh and I went on a wonderful date this evening.I told her that, tonight after we parted, I would go home and finish a blog post. Then I would work on my story that I am currently writing.

The blog post was just posted. Check it out. Comment on it. Argue with me. Agree with me. Or just read it. Or don’t comment on it because it might be total crap when I read it in the morning.

I’ll let you know when the story’s done. It’s got another one hundred fifty hundred words.

I’m now off to walk Matilda at three-thirty in the morning. Provided she wants to go.

Since this was posted so quickly after the previous novel, it should interest you to know that Matilda has already been outside once this night. She was a very good girl and returned quickly, shivering with nervous, excited guilt like someone who has violated curfew.

I think that counts. If not… there’s still plenty of time to do what I said I was going to. But after I sleep.