I know at least a few people care about my return! @galenkp @mindtrap @riverflows @journeyofanomad @audiefaith @lordgreene8080 .... Tag... YOUR ALL IT!!!

Lol, thank you for all your continued support and to all the rest of the STEEM community!

While I was away, my beautiful @audiefaith, gave me a little outside-insider info about how well the community has been doing. I was so excited! Was shadowboxing in my cell, like, HU-HU-HU-HUOAAAWWW!!! I afterwards smiled to myself at how buffoonish I probably looked. On second thought, I was alone. No one really saw me, except me, in the reflection of my distorted steel plate mirror, which was recklessly bolted to the wall. Now, I've told on myself and broke my cardinal rule, JUST FOR ALL YOU GUYS! I hope you enjoyed the visual. I did.

As I had planned, I have come to some solid goals for this new year. I will continue moving forward with STEEM, of course. I also plan to write and sell some music using Spotify and other stores. The most challenging goal that I have set, however, is this: I am going to write a full novel.

I already have the whole story line up in my noggin and I have begun writing. I nearly filled an entire legal pad with words in the last week, and already have some written from before I took my little, sabbatical. I am shooting for no less than 120,000 words, which I believe will be no problem to fulfill. In fact, the story may require more than one book to be written.

The story itself has me so mentally wrapped in it, that I am actually excited to write each new piece. Thank you again, @journeyofanomad for your encouragement in suggesting that I do this. I am already enjoying it. I learned a lot about structuring larger pieces of writing through the journalism I did for the Beyond Rejection, post. Although a 120,000 word piece is a much taller order than a, 4,000 word article, I am confident that I am prepared to do this. It will be a challenge and challenges are what create growth. It's just like working out to improve your physique. You must challenge your muscles, tearing them, so that you can build them up stronger. After you break yourself down with work, you fill yourself with the things your body needs (proper proteins and nutrition), so that you can heal, and do it all over, again. Each article that I have written on STEEM has, in a way, been that preparation, for me.

This platform has given me so much. I hope that you all enjoy the book when it is finished. I will not title it until I am finished, as I may change my mind in the next 100,000 words, lol. Also, I may post it's content in pieces on STEEM when I am done, so that those of you who don't want to pay to read it can still follow along.

Thank you everyone, and CHEERS to STEEM!

-By Jonathan Caleb Williams @badseedalchemist

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The universe is always singing songs of wisdom. To grow, we must listen closely, and spend time, perfecting our own silence.