Nice to meet you Southern Lady, I gather you are from the 'south' part of the USA, which means unlike us poor Canadians, you are not freezing your butt off right now...LOL. Read lots, write lots but comment more as the motto of this great site says, but most important is that you have fun. Nice to see new ones enter the Challenge, like Flopsy says a great way to get ones to read your stories, but I imagine nerve wracking as the month of voting went on and you wondered how your story was doing.

CS