++ Update: We got out after all, and we did a crazy no-stops drive home overnight, and we're home. Victory!!!++

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Evening, folks! I'm now a week into working on To Serve In Hell as part of NaNoWriMo. I'm a bit behind on target wordcount by date, but I feel good about what's been written thus far. Good enough in fact to bust out this old clunker:

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In case you were wondering what Poignant Perfect looks like (in the mind of the author):

Special thanks to RoseGold for providing visual arts expertise.

Prompted by CreepyPastaSalad's request for a better video thumbnail.

I’m glad you asked!

Note the two lovely words on the right.

I wish you all a Merry Christmas[1], a happy solstice, an empirical Newtonmas, and a joyous Kwanzaa. I also wish you happiness in any other holidays—including fictional ones, ones from alternate eventualities, and those as yet undreamed of.

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I'm not sure how many times I repeated the phrase, "One chapter a day, every day, starting Halloween," during Ciderfest this past weekend. But Halloween is Wednesday.

That means To Serve In Hell is coming back in just 48 hours.

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Hey guys. Just want to let you fellas know I'm sorry for taking too long with the chapter. I'm not going to say the chapter is complicated, because that's not why it hasn't been published yet. I've been distracted lately and a bit busy with some RL stuff, been filling out job applications and such and so far I haven't gotten any response. It's a bit stressful, really.

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Remember these?

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After years of hemming and hawing followed by months of total insanity, me and mine are finally done moving house. Naught remains but the twin eternities of opening boxes and waiting for the Internet to be hooked up. Until then, I'll be subsisting as best as possible on cellular data and whatever housewares I can find.

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These last few weeks have been overwhelming, and not just from the busyness of the new house. In trying to make something of “a nu start” here, I've been diving head-on into some old anxieties, which is never entirely smooth.

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Well folks, it's been a heck of a June. Or as we're calling it around Coffee Central, month-where-Ireland-happened-then-suddenly-over. Like seriously, I keep thinking it's the 15th or something... but no, month's basically over. It took us 2+ weeks to get back into the swing of things. I'm running late on everything.

Which brings us to some good news and some bad news.

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To Serve In Hell generated over 20,000 words of cut content, representing more than a fifth of its final length. Not all of it is fit for presentation. However, a few bits still strike me as memorable or interesting, and I'd like to take a moment to share a couple of them.

There are spoilers ahead... but at this point I figure most people who are going to read Hell have already done so. For anyone else, maybe this'll spark some interest?

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As it turns out, our family will be traveling over much of the Thanksgiving week. And while I hate to leave people hanging... the truth is that I do, in fact, love a good cliffhanger. My hope is that you’ll feel Book 2 of To Serve In Hell ends with that.

So: updates will take one full week’s break due to the holiday. Look for Book 3 to begin with Chapter 20 on November 26th.

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(RCL NOTE: We’re attempting the hopeless task of choosing the fandom’s Single Best Story™ at a special panel at Bronycon.  Help us pick the competitors!  Details here.  Voting is open until July 13.)

Do not skip today's story.

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I know. "Again? Who cares! It's cut stuff from an old fic!"

I've realized something, though, as I've been gathering this up: I'm doing this for me. I'm laying something to rest. I'm letting go of a lingering sense of what might-have-been, which in its own way is a part of the story of what ended-up-being.

Maybe it's even the last part of the story.

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As I mentioned last time: there's a mountain of cut content from To Serve In Hell, including some nuggets that I very much regretted having to take out. I've already shared a couple of those stronger moments with you, and discussed the thought process that lead to both adding and ultimately removing them.

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I'm going to talk about stuff I have planned for the near future, but to do that I need to talk about stuff going on in the present first. Since that is probably depressing, here is a picture of Ocellus informing the other members of the Hive where the pollen is located:

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So hello everyone 'nother blog post here detailing random crap that comes to mind whenever I have thoughts or something crazy like that.

What I want to discuss is actually about the characters from Kirby, more specifically the Helpers or Partners that exist. At this point I do want to do something with them but at the same time I want to go through the main tale without deviating too far so I thought up something.

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Been awhile, huh?

Well, don't get too comfortable cause this blog will be short.

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