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So, what's with all the irregular chapter posts?
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2024-03-16 09:07:10I do feel that I owe my readers an explanation as to why my chapters have been posted irregularly.
For the last six months, I have been sick and injured. I caught a cold towards the end of term 3 last year. I got better just before the school holidays and spent the first week of them in bed with the flu. I just got back to school in term 4 only to catch a gastro bug that was going around. Primary schools are Petri dishes of viruses, especially when you are a junior school teacher with little ones who need constant reminding to take their fingers out of their mouths and wash their hands.
My daughter brought Covid into the household, which surprised me because I thought if it were going to happen again, it would be me bringing it in, but no.
On the second to last day of school, I fell off a stool which was made for climbing, landing on my back, and spent six weeks on bed rest. Luckily, I only had lots of soft tissue damage and bruising. I could only sit at my desk for 5 minutes at the most before heading to the couch again, so not a lot of writing going on there. Just under two weeks ago, I fell down concrete stairs early in the morning when it was still dark. I like to start school at 6am when I do my best planning for the day.
I would like to say that it takes talent to be this clumsy, that and ADHD. Despite all of this, I am healing nicely and still working and writing. The writing only happens at the weekend since I am regularly at work for 10 to 12 hours, 5 days a week.
I have taken to doing a chapter dump every Friday or Saturday. Book 3 will be between 60 and 70 chapters. Book 4 is planned and started, and book 5 is planned. Other stories relating to this world are in the idea phase and will be started later. They won't be directly related to the main characters in this series, but the world is the same, and some of the characters are mentioned, such as King Daemon and Queen Adriana, Prince Cedric and Princess Lucienne, and Prince Alastair and Princess Alise.
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