I'm sure you've all given up on my abilities to submit things. So have I, somewhat. After my last journal entry I started on something that was kind of a spur-of-the-moment project, and now I've been working on it for about a month and it's a little more than twenty handwritten pages thus far with another ten or so to come.

I wrote something else, too, that's considerably shorter, and I'll submit that when I'm done with revisions. If it's any consolation for my recent lack of presence, I do believe that my writing is improving.

There have been a lot of distractions lately, which I know is no excuse. My computer crashed. I went on two vacations. I've been sick. I developed an appreciation for Facebook. All of my family's birthdays fall between July 1st and September 30th, so there's been a lot of birthday party planning and whatnot.

I'm trying. I promise.