If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll notice that today is the first of December. And that means that the November Challenge is at an end. And I FUCKING NAILED IT.

Every goddamn day, baby. A couple of days I posted TWICE. Just because I COULD. And because I may have FORGOTTEN WHAT DAY IT WAS.

It got hairy at some points. The first week went all right as I took the 3 or 4 good ideas I still had waiting to be writen and wrote them, and wasn’t embarrassed by what I had writen. The second week was tougher. I went on holidays from work, (that was planned before the challenge by the way; I’m not insane enough to take time off work to do an internet project) but for some reason that made it even harder to get stuff written.

By the time I actually came back to work last week I was dreading getting out of bed every day because I’d have to find time to write the bloody blog for the day. I began seeing the world in article-sized chunks, every single thing that I saw or experienced was assesed for its value as possible material. I would come up with hilarious rants in my head about how grass is basically the most redundant plant, or how some people should be able to be legally killed under a strictly defined set of conditions. I itemised the contents of my wadrobe, before deleting the whole thing, line-by-line, softly crying.

But somehow I posted something every damn day. For that I have to thank you guys.  Blogging can be a lonely business sometimes, the feeling that you’re just throwing words into a great sucking void.

But fortunately you guys posted comments and tweeted about it and posted articles to Facebook and even came up to me personally to say you were enjoying my writing. And let me tell you- to a writer, that shit is like crack cocaine wrapped in bacon. It is a high like you cannot imagine, having someone say they not only read your stuff, but liked your stuff. And then ask for more of your stuff. That is the fucking BEST. So thank you so much to everyone who commented and emailed and everything else. You made the November Challenge go from this-

to this-

Exactly like that.

I’d like to extend a special thanks to olilolo’s other main writer, Doyle. I actually didn’t tell Doyle about the challenge until I posted the first post on Nov 1 explaining what I was going to be doing. I basically hijacked the site for a month, after he’d kept it going for three months while I had a case of “writer’s block” (laziness). So thank you for putting up with me, you sexy, hairy man.

olilolo.com now goes back to its regularly scheduled programming, except we’ve never had regularly scheduled programming, so maybe we’ll go forward to regularly scheduled programming. Doyle’s going to start posting again, and I’m going to keep posting reularly, only not every goddamn day, because seriously, if I had to fart out another olilolo article I was going to put my fist through the screen. You wonder why so many writers have drinking problems? Deadlines is the answer.

So thank you once again, and please keep reading. I can’t promise the quality is going to improve, but if you’re still here you’re a sucker for punishment and you have my respect.