I'm going to be slightly kind and reveal a few of the jokes in John so far. These are the chapter title jokes as well as the song joke in the chapter Wake Up Call. The one in Spot of Tea, Change for Me is actually a plot point in one of the upcoming side arc chapters so I think you can wait to hit me for that one later. Without further ado:

Run John Run - Reference to the movie Run Lola Run.
Master of the House - Reference to the song in Les Miserables.

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Finally, some good writing weather!

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I have yet to hear from anyone who has or thinks they have spotted the terrible music joke in Spot of Tea, Change for Me? and the one in the chapter Wake Up Call. One of them will be made very clear in one of the upcoming shorts. I don't doubt you will all be groaning when they are revealed.

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Much of the first side story for A Deer Named John is written. I am just not happy with how the ending currently stands. Want to do a bit more work on it otherwise I would have pushed to post it by now.

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Sorry the next chapter of A Deer Named John is not out yet. I am writing it, just not finished yet.

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I really want to release the first of the side story chapters for A Deer Named John in the next day or so but the Christmas runaround is greatly eating my time. The chapter currently lies in pieces with some unexpected chunks already written but nowhere near ready yet. Even added a small plot thread I hadn't considered before. But, because of a mess up yesterday in forgetting to take some stuff for Christmas Day to my sister and because of the failure of a person coming through for the gift for

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Even with the insanity of the past week and this week's sun having the desire to burn me off the face of the planet, I am doing my best to write the first of the side stories. Struggling with the P.O.V. at the moment while trying to make it interesting. Currently juggling it between John, Cremator and Boo. Trying to get the best choice and each has their own up and downsides. I would use John in a heartbeat but she keeps coming across as too passive in the test pieces, so we will see. Maybe I'm

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Progress is still the same with both Keepers of the Crag and Further Findings of Close Call.

This post is more about the Teapot Tales. First some background knowledge, then reasoning behind this post, followed by a question on presentation as I am of two minds on this.

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Okay, now that A Deer Named John has finished, people may be wondering where to next? And when will we get there? Will we see the guest characters again? Will there be a call for more guest characters? What about the other two story universes?

We'll start with where to next.

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The end of Arc 1 in the Teapot Tales has arrived with the posting of the final chapter. The shorts are coming with Arc 2 in the distance behind them.

Again, thank you all for giving such an odd little story, which was unintentionally given out in a fragmented way, a chance. I am truly humbled by the reaction to it.

See you for the shorts or maybe part of one of the other non-teapot stories again soon,

Tael.

Real life kicked hard this week with a medical emergency in the family. Spent a good chunk of Friday night in A&E acting as translator/assistant as I tend to do in these kinds of emergencies while waiting for explanations/results. Recovery for them is happening, slow but seeing the improvement. Was hoping to get the final arc 1 chapter of A Deer Named John done for the end of the weekend. It may still happen, but this will take precedence when needed.

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Okay, so those who saw the latest chapter of A Deer Named John and actually looked at the author notes will have glimpsed this already. But here it is in greater detail and for those who have not seen the note.

That right there is a work in progress commission from Mix-up. It also, when I saw it for the first time at five in the morning, made me barely able to comprehend what I was seeing.

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One, I'm sick. Unfortunately means the next chapter of A Deer Named John will take a little while. I'm really not happy about this, but not much I can do except rest and drink a lot of fluids. I'll still be around, reading, commenting and maybe giving some editing advice. Just creativity will be down.

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Truly a picture to sum up my mornings following writing a chapter and posting it. I don't get much sleep those nights.

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If anyone thought the puns in A Deer Named John were bad, I'm sorry.

I'm also sorry that they aren't quite as bad as the ones in the following video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK1OIXYnRgw&feature=emb_title

The painful horse puns start around the one minute marker.

Also, I am working on the next chapter but, if it grows too much larger, I may need to split it in two.

Working on the next two chapters of A Deer Named John right now. Had a few problems with these two in the past few days, but if things go as well as they have been today, expect them to drop sometime in the next 24 hours. The first could be in the next four to eight hours. These two have surprised me.

Update 1 - The first of the two chapters, Crossfire, is now posted.
Update 2 - And there's the second one, Wakeup Call.

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Living with a permanent anxiety condition is a frustrating roller coaster. Can have days where everything is normal, feel fine to the point of not even noticing how I am. Then there are days like yesterday and today. Days where I am mentally incredibly low and, for the life of me, I can't figure out the trigger that comes down to an otherwise simple word: why?

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