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My muse was mostly absent for the past couple weeks that saw the number of chapters uploaded ahead of time dwindle from four to zero. I have Chapter 278 mostly finished, but it's not ready for prime time, so will probably be another day.

Perhaps only four more chapters to go to the end of _Beth_ as we know it. However, take heart. While it will be a while before I get enough chapters written of the follow-on story to begin posting it, I've got a few written already. The format will be different, as Beth will not be the sole storyteller, but the story will pick up the storyline immediately after the last chapter of _Beth_.

HOWEVER, I'll be spending a lot more time and energy on It's My Party for the nonce, so I can get that story up on its hind legs, given that it's the very first story idea I ever considered actually writing, much less publishing. Perhaps I can get the scores up, as it's obvious that many readers don't understand the nearly psychotic aspect of the protagonist's writing. Regardless, the protagonist is obviously NOT Beth and, except for age and sex, not at all similar to Beth.

Cheers, all, and welcome to the northern-hemisphere's backside of summer!

Chapters 271-273 are all uploaded and will publish on the 11th, 14th, and 17th, respectively. I've greatly revamped the Cast "chapter" and it should publish sometime on the 9th. I've also recently begun posting a satellite story -- A New Tree -- with Emma Smythe as the protagonist.

Hold onto your hats, folks.

While very similar in spelling and somewhat similar in meaning, clench and clinch do mean different things and are used in different situations.

Clench: contraction or tightening of a body part, such as jaws, hand (into a fist), and sphincter

Clinch: an embrace (the two illicit lovers were found in a clinch)

or, in sports when I was much younger, winning some aspect of play, such as a season, before that aspect of play was over

Formerly, "clinch" was used mostly near the ends of regular seasons (such as in baseball, American football) but before the season was over in situations that a team's lead was too large to overcome in the length of season remaining. Once the season was completed, "clinch" was no longer used. Instead, the team was said to have "won the league (or division or whatever)."

Now, however, it's become a synonym of "won."

Since I have chapters 265-268 uploaded, am deep into Chapter 269, and should have sufficient free time to write for a while, I decided to change to 3-day intervals rather than 4-day publication intervals. Thus, Chapter 265 will publish after 8 pm New York time on 23 June and the others at 3-day intervals after that.

Despite an old-person brain fart that enabled me to delete the 2/3 of Chapter 265 I had written yesterday before I had it backed up, I managed to re-create it well enough today. Thus, I have the next four chapters of Beth uploaded to begin publishing every four days (the usual interval) on the 12th (Chapter 262), with Chapter 265 publishing on the 24th. All but 265 are long chapters.

Overall, work continues to be slow, so I have lots of time for writing and hope to get a few more chapters ahead.