Thank you for your well-wishes. I certainly appreciate them very much.
Unfortunately, if you've read my update in Hot Topics
http://www.justusboys.com/forum/showthread.php?t=133361 you'll see that I haven't been doing much lately except parking myself in bed. I haven't been able to sit at the computer for more than a few minutes at a time and haven't even opened WordPerfect since Monday. I haven't written a single word in 4 days.
Don't worry. I'm not burning out on Watching Brad. I hope to continue it for quite some time.
jestertop said:
Just a little side note for everyone, including Neil, a while back, around part 122, I copied all of the chapters and set about putting them together into a book form as a surprise to send to Neil, but when I copied them all into Word, at that time the first 122 chapters took up 352 pages! I was shocked
I'm a bit shocked, too! Maybe I should have used a smaller font.
Harry113 said:
Perhaps move forward, say, to the wedding, and possibly give us "Snapshots" of times as the boys grow up rather than a continuous storyline
As you know, the story is running in 'real time', or at least in the near past. I have the story planned pretty-much up to the end of the year in their time, but, eventually, they will catch up to us in our own time. After that, I had planned on doing regular updates, but keeping it in real time. Now, Ted's dreams during his breakdown gave you a glimpse of the twins in their teens. I don't think the story will last as long as that, at least in real time.
So, I pose this to you: Do you want me to continue in real time or do you want me to go into the future and show the kids growing up?
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Again, thank you for all your comments and your well-wishes. I feel that I've failed you in some way. I've decided not to push myself and to withhold this latest update until the New Year. It will give me time to recover completely and to get a few chapters ahead (if I'm lucky). It will also give me time to refine the wedding and the honeymoon without rushing it.
And so, whatever holiday you celebrate, and however you celebrate it, I hope it is a happy and enjoyable time for all.
Take care, always.
Neil