Literacy lesson learned. I spent 10 months of my life sleeping outside, all because I didn’t read a book.

If you read my last few posts, I made a pledge to sleep outside until I finished writing my first novel. The story was about a 12 year old boy who got stranded on an island off the coast of British Columbia. Without any survival experience, he had to rely solely on his imagination to survive from summer to spring.

I started sleeping outside- in June was it? or July? I forget. I thought...