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Happy belated Thanksgiving, yonder readers!

Okay, so it's officially the home stretch - the last couple weeks of school. That part of the semester where I really get no creative writing done at all. I know some people were looking for an update to The Ghost Stone, at least, before/for thanksgiving, and believe me when I say I tried. But I had two papers due before break, and now I've got three final papers to wrap up, and as much as it sucks, school is still my priority in life right now. As long as I'm in grad school, it will always come first, no matter how much I hate it sometimes/love to complain about it.

But the good news is that there's only a couple pages or so to go on the next GS chapter, so hopefully I can sneak in there this week and finish it off. But I make no promises.

I'm getting excited about Diamonds and Dust again. This, my friends, is good. Very good. Did a lot of thinking and plotting over break. I'm aiming to finish the first draft over Christmas break. Then, if everything goes according to plan, I will have an independent study in the spring focused on civil war fiction, which is basically research for D&D (isn't grad school awesome?), and then I'll be gradumacated and I can get started on a second draft. Will possibly send in for publishing. If everything goes according to plan.

All in all, I'm pretty happy. Though I'm sure in a few days, once the "Final Papers Are Due" Panic sets in, that will change. Oh, will that change.