I have finally gotten a jump on the next chapter and am making progress again. I'm writing during my commute, which seems to be a good space for me for some reason--whether it's because I think well with chaos going on around me or because I can tune the chaos out by writing, I don't know, but it works.

Meantime, our internet issues (*crosses fingers*) seem to have been fixed, and I managed to get my computer back online as well. I hope to get back to a regular update schedule, either weekly or bi-weekly, soon. Like today soon. I have the last part of the current chapter to post and that will hopefully happen tonight. There's just some polishing to get done and putting my HTML tags in place.

I think you'll like this next bit. It introduces Hailey's mother, and there's some fun character business I got to do with them. I'm really enjoying how they play off one another.

The next segment is going to be a bit of a gear-shift, even in comparison to what's gone before. We're going to learn a little more about the kind of world these characters occupy, and I'm finally establishing a time-setting for the serial, which I haven't done as yet. Bad of me, I know . . . but I wanted to keep things fluid in that respect until I was sure where (and when I was going with all this. :)

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In other news, yesterday at my in-laws' I was going through some old boxes and found a 3.5 disk which I believe has a goodly chunk of my old writings stored on it--including the first draft of the novel I've been struggling with for the last two years. So what did I do? I put it aside--and then promptly forgot about it and packed it away again. Duh. :-/ Oh well, at least I know where the damn thing is now.