Your goal was to write and you've written. Congratulations.

Tomorrow I'll wrap up the month with some thoughts for those of you who reached your goal or who just got a significant amount of writing done. Today I want to take a minute to talk to those of you who think you failed.

There are examples and explanations that didn't quite fit into one chapter that you are able to use in another chapter. But at some point enough is enough. If you insist on using your left over material you will be harming your book and not helping it.

Connect with your reader. Think of what you know about your reader. Who are they? What do they like? How old are they? What experiences do they share?

Why don't we serve the pie first in our books. Not all the time. That could be bad for us. We might fill up on pie and never eat the vegetables or protein. But once in a while why not switch things up.

Read, think, discuss, and then play with what you've learned. As a "what if" or "how does that apply to this other situation" and the thought is no longer what it was when you first picked it up and looked at it.

You've spent this past month developing your habit of daily writing. Next week when you reach your goal you can stop and be fully satisfied with what you've accomplished. I want you to keep writing.

In the end, you are on every page of your book. People will know things about you that you never knew you were revealing.

Even in a book about coding, I do think of my code examples as characters. They grow in a way that, I hope, the reader will be interested in following.

At some point you'll find that your book has a life of its own.