Dip Your Toe In (The 10-Day New Year's Journaling Challenge - Day 1)

The start of last year seemed momentous, for no particular reason other than that maybe we all like round numbers and repeating patterns and 2020 just had a nice ring to it.  We dove headlong into the year only to realize that the water was shallow and infested with electric eels and there was a rip current.  We dashed our brains out on the rocks and got shocked repeatedly as we were dragged further and further out to sea.  

But then the seawater disinfected our wounds and we survived.  Though mangled and perhaps forever disfigured, maybe we are washing up on a new shore.  Maybe we have a second chance.  Maybe this time I'll just dip my toes in the water and wade in slowly.

The creator of The Isolation Journals, Suleika Jaouad, is kicking off the New Year with a 10-Day journaling challenge.  I'm giving it a whirl.  Here's Day 1.

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 January 1. Reimagining Resolutions, by Michelle Akin

Your prompt:
Imagine that you are the main character in a novel, the plot of which is going to unfold over the next year. Where will you go? What will you do?

Now write a summary of that novel as the jacket copy for the back of the book.

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Advance praise for Dancing Cheek to Cheek:

"I thought there would be more doodoos in this one, but I'm into it." - Taro Gomi, author of Everyone Poops

"If you like to watch boring, awkward people seek liberation and find humiliation, you won't be able to put this down.  Exhilarating."  - F. M. Jones, author of 50 Shades of Beige

After a brief hiatus from, well, everything, the antihero of the critically acclaimed Full of It, or It Happens:  A series of unfortunate scatological events is back in action.  Never one to crave human interaction, much less tolerate a stranger's touch, Katie has undergone a curious transformation since we last checked in on her.  After months of forced isolation, Katie and her equally-reticent life partner venture out to their old favorite bar to sit ass-to-elbow with strangers and make small talk.  A mysterious young woman dressed in neon and covered in glitter takes a shine to them and brings them a round of drinks.  Will Katie and Andy stare into the bucket of truth and re-embrace the quiet life wholeheartedly, or will they dive face-first into rave culture, swingers parties, and occasional public nudity?  Readers will be at turns titillated and deeply uncomfortable.