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Getting old sucks. I've spent the last few weeks under the weather with little or no mental energy for writing. I'm now beginning to see some of the Beth upcoming storyline again, so might begin writing soon. I'll keep you apprised.

Thank the stars for the time-waster that is YouTube. I've watched The Traveling Wilburys' 'Wilbury Twist' a pile of times. It always makes me smile, then get sad that we've lost three of the five of them.

Not particularly important, but I've put an update to the characters roster (Appendix 4) in the pub queue.

Found some writing time today and got it done. I don't know about subsequent chapters, yet.

I got well ahead in writing in Nov and Dec, such that I had as many as six chapters queued up at the same time. That helped a lot when I got little writing done over the holiday season. I've had little writing time in January, so I will almost certainly fall off what had been an every-four-days posting of the next chapter. I may get chapter 151 posted in January, but might not get any others up until February.

Every reader has favorite genres, topics, etc. I have a very narrow scope of story topics of which I'll even open the first chapter. Even most of the ones I open have what I would consider problems for me to continue reading them. I understand being disappointed by a story because it didn't go where a reader wanted it to go or presented scenes or info the reader doesn't care for. That happens to me all the time.

If a reader doesn't like something after a paragraph or a chapter, that person should move on. Surely the reader doesn't have so much free time that the reader has nothing better to do than flaming a writer that doesn't write the sort of stuff the reader wants to read. If someone does, I might be willing to trade. I could use a lot more free time (having just ended an 11.75-hour work day).