The Importance of Challenges

Joining a challenge now and again really gets me motivated to accomplish something. I have been slacking off on blogging so for April I'm doing the A-Z blogging challenge over at Prissy Fit. I also need to increase my word count so I'm doing an April Writeathon. My goals for the Writeathon is to

1. Finish a 3k short story for an anthology
2. Add 15k words to Dark Marco
3. Add 35k words to The Saint of Petersburg

Yesterday was the first day of the challenge and I had a great start. I finished that short story at just under 3k with 2772 words. Since 3k was the maximum, I think it is perfect. I'm aiming for another 2k words today on one of my other projects.