You must avoid the anvil

This is part eight of a series. Here is part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six, and part seven.

Dearest ones,

I am sure you do not want to hear my myriad excuses for taking so long to write part eight (I got a job! It is a relief! And is also an entirely new life that I sometimes resent because of the whole dead husband thing.). The silence is never a situation where I ignore you completely. Rather, I write and write and write, and then end up with a novel that I must edit, edit, edit. The few of you that are like, "I'd read all 40,000 words!" Okay sure, you're sweet. But really, the editing is very necessary.

I'm leaving this one on the long side to hopefully make up for the disgustingly long swathes of time between part seven and today.