Kris

Hi. Hope this finds you well. Will there be more chapters of Thanks For All Your Help? 

Alright. Because I can't leave well enough alone, Seventh Regret is getting an overhaul. What was originally 4 parts, will now be 5. The second part of the story got lost along the way. Very gone. Not saved anywhere for me, not on old message boards, or fanfic sites. I read chapter 1 and 3 multiple times to figure out what chapter 2 was about and outside of a location, nothing. And I couldn't get in the groove with it. So, in thinking about the story, I came up with an awesome chapter idea that I am excited about writing!  But, the story needed to change from 1st person to 3rd. So... chapter 1 has been rewritten.

Great chapter on thanks for your help loved it  

The second of four parts is done. Again, I know it has grammar and whatever errors and it will be edited and cleaned up. You are getting the initial draft because, as I said, we could use such things. 
          
          Also... this chapter was never in the plans so, anything is possible. I have this idea of tackling things I love about J/M. 
          FIrst part, their family just getting to be a loving family. 
          Second part, their attraction.  With a little soap fun of getting themselves into a troubling situation. 
          
          J/M just having silly fun. We never got enough of that. So, that will be in there with a round of golf. 
          
          Being sexy. Sexual tension. Just undeniable chemistry. The hot springs has always been one of my most favorite moments, so I will pay homage to that somehow. 
          
          Again, this wasn't planned, so we will see what Chapter 20 brings us, including myself.

Firstly, I want to explain that I have not abandoned ship, despite all the evidence to the contrary. I am a high school teacher. I teach Honors 9 English, AP Literature and Senior Seminar (college applications course). So my life is frequently buried in piles of paragraphs and essays to comment on, along with everything else in the teacher world. And like many teachers, my brain is quite drained by the end of the day. I also coach Boys' Varsity tennis and our school is rural, so we can travel up to 2 hours away for matches and I live 50 minutes from school. So, for the months of August and September, I am gone from 6:30am to sometime between 7 and 10 at night. And many Saturdays (like yesterday), I am coaching all day tournaments that require a 5am wake up for a 7am bus and a 5pm return. 
          I love what I do and that's why I do it. But, means nothing else happens in my world, including grocery shopping!!
          
          Second part, last night's news crushed me, like many others. A flaw of mine is that I have too much empathy and in my exhausted state, it is hard to process this info. I have been dreading the loss of my appointed Queen, Dame Maggie Smith and that news Friday made me so sad. Past and present students reached out to me because they are very aware of my adoration and in AP Lit we watch Downton Abbey (educational purposes!). However, they don't know that at age 7, I started watching Days of Our Lives and have lived somewhere between being a day to day fan, VHS recording daily eps and making music montages and writing fanfic to just roughly keeping up to date through Twitter conversation and clips. But since, 91, I have always known what is happening with John/Marlena and that is a unique thing. And I am processing what that means and I feel deeply for Drake's family, the cast of DAYS, the fans, and especially Deidre because her work is so entwined with him, for nearly 40 years, that separation is impossible.  
          Group hug to all.