Hey folks. Chapter 26 is in the queue for posting.
Most people probably know that I found an old and part written chapter a few months ago. One that was supposed to have gone in far earlier than I had got up to in the posting. Well, you all know what I did then in getting the story partially withdrawn and then reposting the chapters, most of them cleaned up, up to the new part. That was chapter 13.
Well, after that I got thinking. I needed to insert another brand new chapter, based on what had happened in chapter 13. It took me a while to write, and given that each chapter is set at a specific time in the calendar, I knew it needed to go in at 26, so I slowed my posting of subsequent chapters to give me chance to finish it and get it checked.
So, this is it. This is another brand new chapter. The next half dozen or so chapters are all reposts, so, probably starting next week, I'll post them about one a week until we are caught up.
The primary reason I'm posting so slowly, one chapter a month, is because when I started posting, I still hadn't finished four chapters. 45-48 of 49. Well, as I've inserted two, that now makes it 47-50 of 51. I had bad writers block. I've still got it, partially.
However I'm sure you'll be pleased to know that I have now managed to finish 47 and 49, and have got a lot further through 48. (Yes, I do mean finished 47 and 49 but not 48!) Just two and a half more sections. 48 is likely to be a very large chapter and I may split it into two, however I'll make that decision closer to the time. 50, however is still far from finished. 51, the final chapter is finished, but I'm not calling it finished as it's always possible I may need to change it depending upon exactly how I finish 50.
So, that's the current status of Maquis.
Aside from that, I work in IT and normally work from home 4 or 5 days a week, so from that perspective the current lockdown hasn't impacted me very much, apart from the fact I cannot visit my 83yo mother quite so often, just in case.
The 'just in case' comes from the fact that my wife is a staff nurse in a very busy A&E department in one of the worst hit areas of the UK outside of London. I'm not even allowed to hug her when she gets in from work until after she's had a bath. As you can probably imagine, life can be a bit stressful at the moment. And that's without the terminally bored and hormonal teenage step-daughters who are now around permanently instead of being at school during the day.
Mind you, on the up side, I've got a hell of a lot of gardening done in the last few weeks. :)
Ho hum.
Enjoy life, stay safe, and keep to the social distancing rules. Don't let the idiots who say it's a waste of time fool you. It works, it is working. Slowly! All power to the genuine front line workers who have to be out and about!!!!
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