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What I Learned While Writing Chapter Thirteen

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  What I Learned While Writing Chapter Thirteen Chapter Thirteen of And the Horse You Rode in On… is finished, edited, and in Kindle Create. Lessons learned: Being home sick was not nearly as entertaining before cable television. Homework is apparently capable of locating a sixth-grader even when said sixth-grader is confined to bed. Mothers who say “just in case” are generally planning for circumstances their children have confidently determined will never happen. Cafeteria pizza is a philosophical problem. A person claiming to be operating at ninety-five percent efficiency may wish to have the diagnostic equipment recalibrated. The occasional brand name can do wonders for making a remembered world concrete. Sometimes a quiet chapter about ordinary life tells you more about a character than a chapter containing explosions, fistfights, alien invasions, or the sinking of major surface combatants. ...