Let's DO this thing!

As OlderKid would say.

If you know me, and odds are that you do, you know that I have a certain book I'm yearning to write. (And it does NOT have a subtitle ending with "In Nineteenth-Century Literature.") It's a book about a girl, and a dog and cat, and a pet-sitting business, and a mystery. Usually this project works as a kind of low-class Proust--it's the kind of thing I idly plan on getting around to some day, not quite yet of course--but I think it's time to change all that. I'm already writing one book; why not write another? If anything, it will help defend me from a day in which the ONLY sentences I write include the words "occlude," "capital," "aesthetics," and "vision," in various combinations.

Two needs: first, a title. What should a snarky and non-serious, yet intermittently thrilling, book about a pet-sitter who solves crime be called? Second, a stick to prompt to me to write a certain amount every day...like a national program...for writing amateurs...who value length over content...if only such a program existed right now, in November! What's that you say? It does? Well, then, super!