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I'm really torn between telling you to not overdo it and shouting, "Faster! Faster! Write faster!"

I've long since come to the conclusion that "vacation" means something different to Dale than most of us. So I don't really worry much about him burning out anymore, even though it could perhaps still happen. Even so, my reading avarice makes me feel like a pushy jerk about it.

Is it even possible to push an author that thinks writing only ten thousand words in a day is slacking off?

Think of it as encouragement.

You might have a point there...

I only wrote five thousand words today. (Starting a new book though...)

Now I'm looking at the story and don't feel like writing it. I might find something else to work on for a while instead.

Part of that is that I don't want to get stale. I DO have ideas for stories, though some of them are a bit extreme as to how different they might be...

I can tone down things a bit...

Maybe something about Christmas, Clowns, Killers or horrors that cannot be imagined?

How about one with Chris the line walker... spreading Christmas cheer to all the worlds.

I say... Roll them all into one in an edition of the 'Greasepaint Chronicles. And do it topically. Our hero comes to the aid of a group of clowns being persecuted by a well meaning citizens group just before Christmas. It seems a clown was observed trying to entice children into his clown car. It becomes evident some child or children have fallen prey to the horrors of a pedophile. Blah, blah,blah you know, you'll work it out.

Being a fan of goofball cult classics, I enjoyed Killer Clowns From Outer Space. So working alien invasion into the story would be cool in my book. After all, they're painting their faces for a reason. It's clearly sinister...

The only problem with coming up with a (fairly good, by the way, Ronald...) idea like that is that now if I do anything too close to it, I will have "stolen" the idea from you.

Which means that you have to write that out now. Sorry, its a rule...

So, we can expect to see that before Christmas?