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For my editor, anyway.

Dorable, my muse, has been flitting around and whispering in my ear. I just sent out another chapter of Park This! to go with the chapter of Community that went out yesterday. With any luck we should have something new posted in a day or two.

In the meantime, I'm stuck at home have limited mobility, so what else do I have to do but write? Hope you folks enjoy the result.

Trying to hold off on the painkillers for a bit. Surgery's three weeks off, which means, likely, that I have three more weeks of lounging around the house. Miss Dorable's been flitting around my ear pretty regularly, keeping her suggestions flowing.

That's pretty good from the standpoint of writing, but I honestly enjoy my real job and miss the interaction with my co-workers.

In the meantime, another chapter of Park This! is on its way through the editing process and should post in a couple of days.

To all you who've written about Cindy's mom in Community, be advised that several of you prodded me into bringing her back into the story, and you didn't say what to do with her, so this is the result. You write, I do pay attention.

Thanks-

So I post Chapter 59 of Community and there's a major plot twist as I drag a character back into the story and tie her into a theme with one of the major protagonists. For you fans, that means Cindy's mom shows up after being essentially off-screen for a couple of story years.

And I twisted it.

I admit it. I did it on purpose. I didn't know I was going to do it, so it's murder 2, not murder 1. Wasn't premeditated. Just started writing and that's where it ended up.

I've had what is a happy thing for me, a hack writer - a little avalanche of comments, 99% of which are 'Wow! I love it! What happens next?'

And any second now I expect my friend Anna Siciliana to poke a hole in my little balloon with one of her Horrible advice for talentless writers blog posts. (Luvya, Anna!)

But then, that's fun, too, and that's why I do this stuff.

And before it was pointed out and edited, 'pot twist' had NOTHING to do with this post.

So I'm dealing with nerve pain here and various doctors have prescribed a smorgasbord of painkillers. Sometimes about half an hour after I take the prescribed dose I reach a crossing point where the pain goes down and there's this warm happy glow.

The muse, she likes it.

That's why there's a chapter of Community posted today and another chapter of Park This! queued up for tomorrow and yet another chapter at the 20% mark.

Anyhow, as the saying goes, "One man's pain (mine. Literally.) is another man's gain.

I sort of jumped out of my sequence this time. I usually post one chapter of one of the two active stories after one from the other.

This week I broke that. I got kind of wrapped up in Park This! and wrote two chapters back to back. Well, not really. I was flipping back and forth between chapters of both stories.

Cindy's mom shows up in Community, so I was excited about that, and I was also excited about the trio in Park This! and couldn't leave either of them alone.

I just posted Chapter 3 of Park This!. It should hit shortly. and I just sent Chapter 4 off to the editor, so that should hit in a day or two. Further, I'm at about 75% of that chapter of Community, so in a day or two it should go out.

And as always, I appreciate all the kind comments and story suggestions. You guys are great!