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The Last Can Of Worms

If you didn't understand my last post, don't worry. Nobody else got it either. Life just doesn't make sense sometimes. Deal with it.

A week ago I sadly returned to work after being furloughed for six weeks. Hard to admit it here but I really didn't do anything constructive with my time. I sat around in front of the TV getting fat mostly. But finally, about ten days ago, just before I unexpectedly got a phone call telling me I was going back to work in two days, I wrote something. The first thing I've written in 18 months. Quite an event then.

This new thing has been a long time coming. I wrote quite a big non-fiction piece in 2013 that gave me a lot of trouble. I spent an awfully long time doing rewrites on it and then the situation changed and it seemed kind of no longer valid or obsolete or incomplete or something and I ran out of free space on my WP document as well so I just let it rest at the end of 2014 even though I was still far from satisfied.

That bug has been biting me ever since, and after almost 6 weeks of total bone idleness the time seemed right to dig up the old chestnut, re-read it, make a few minor improvements, and then basically write a follow up to it. This I did in the space of two days. On the third day I went back to the day job. The new thing is called "The Last Can of Worms" and runs to twelve and a half pages. It serves its purpose. I gave it three stars. Not bad then, but thank goodness the reputation of the entire series does not rest on it because it's hardly a classic. The new thing and its parent were earmarked for book three, but I have now decided to bring them forward to book two. Perhaps someday, God willing, you might read them and get your mind blown.

That's all I have for now. I will probably be back at some indeterminate point in the future.

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