I'm participating in the #YourTurnChallenge …Yikes!

Dear MOM Squad:

Blame Tosinger oooo. Blame her! Last week she quietly knocked on my Twitter door, entered my mentions, and gently threw set down the gauntlet, asking me if I’d like to participate in the #YourTurnChallenge. I could have ignored her if not for the word “challenge” hanging on the end of the hashtag. Me to back away from a challenge? How!

Naturally, I said yes…without even bothering to find out what I was getting into. It’s  a reflex I have; like William Wallace chopping off the heads of English nobles. I just can’t help myself!

The #YourTurnChallenge isn’t nearly as grotesque as that, thankfully. It merely encourages bloggers to post something every day for seven days, starting January 19th. A year or more ago, this would be no difficult task at all. I used to write two posts a day without any real effort (one here and one on  Adventures). And then the trolls found me…After that, let’s just say my zest for writing was far less zesty.

Anyhow, I’ve devised my strategy to get through this challenge and to come out victorious! For the next seven days, I will be writing under the theme “What it feels like to…” wherein I will describe in very raw terms what it feels like to endure a particular event. One of the posts I’m most looking forward to penning is “What it feels like to have a boil on your arse.”

“Well, Malaka,” says you, “how would you know what it’s like to have a cyst upon thy buttocks?”

Oh don’t be so coy. How is a writer to write effectively about anything if she has not experienced it, or spent a great deal of time studying it? Clearly, someone very close to be has suffered a boil on their butt. Yes sir! This will be a week of hard hitting journalism and provocative topics! (Not really.)

Feel free to skip reading this week, MOM Squad. I just wanted to give you a heads up to prepare yourself for what’s to come. Hopefully, nothing of serious consequence will happen in popular culture or society at large that will cause me to deviate from my task.

See you tomorrow on Day 1, and if you’re on twitter, follow @Tosinger to see what she’ll be up to as well!