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Sorry, readers, but work threw me a curveball recently, and one that has precluded me from nearly anything that I could consider free time. The sudden remote task I'm on is coming to an end, so hope to get back to writing very soon.

During late Dec and throughout Jan, writing was a breeze and I was nearly astonished at how much I got written and how far ahead I got. At one point in January, I was six chapters ahead in _Beth_ and single chapters ahead in both _A Tall, Young Girl_ and _It's My Party_.

Then February brought the doldrums, and it took me more than half the month to write Chapter 236, getting it done and uploaded only a half-day before it was posted on schedule. Fortunately, I'm nearly 6000 words into Chapter 237 which I expect to be 9000-10,000 words, and should have the first draft finished, edited, copy-edited, and uploaded tomorrow evening. I hope.

As some readers noted, I had some problems with 236, and some of those were due to buying a brand new laptop that likes to frequently move the cursor on its own, often to a place I can't find it. This causes much frustration when it inserts stuff elsewhere than I had intended for the currently active sentence and/or deletes stuff elsewhere because I was trying to delete stuff in the active sentence and/or puts the cursor into highlight mode wherever the cursor went. I've not been able to figure out how I'm causing this if I am, but I'm not doing anything different than I've done on all previous laptops (and they are legion). It's frustrating.

Official rant now complete.

Finally, I provide a heads-up about March. There's a reasonably good chance that I'll be traveling for work for some part of March. If I do, the project will be intensive and could very well cause a reduction -- perhaps a great reduction -- in writing time. However, the client is not yet sure it's going to pull the trigger. Typical. They'll want us there yesterday.

I have six chapters of three stories uploaded and scheduled this month with one of each to post over the next five days. Four of those chapters will post to Beth (chapters 227-230 on the 15th, 19th, 23rd, and 27th, respectively). Chapter 17 of A Tall Young Girl will post on the 13th and Chapter 2 of It's My Party will post on the 17th. And, no, Lesley Gore has nothing to do with that third story.

Chapter 222 was posted tonight, and 223 will be posted four days from now. I've uploaded Chapters 224-226. All are quite long (lots of things happening in BethWorld) and will post in four-day intervals.

My many comp days after returning from an intense field effort allowed me a lot of writing time. In addition to Chapters 218-221 which have already been posted, I also have uploaded Chapters 222-225, which will be posted every fourth day, beginning tomorrow evening -- the Western Hemisphere tomorrow evening.