Good news: Chapter 18 is with my editor Jerry and will be published after he gets through with it. I have also finished outlining the rest of the story so I know more or less where I am going with it and where it will end: Spoiler alert: I ain't gonna tell yuh, okay, or what?
Bad News: My father is a lung cancer survivor; it has come back, and this time it is inoperable. The doctor thinks he has good chances of responding to treatments; my research on Pluera cancer makes me a lot less optimistic, but she is one of the best doctors in the country on that sort of thing, so I am hopeful that she understands it better than me; actually I'm sure she does.
Anyway, I was planning on starting writing chapter 19 this afternoon, and I am just not feeling it. I have this want to be distracted more and thinking less. I am hoping to work on it, maybe a little later today, maybe more tomorrow. It is kind of hard to be writing a story taking place inside a hospital at this particular second. But I don't know. I just know what I DON'T want to be thinking about.