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Hello all!

It took me a couple days, but I am writing again! I kind of started over a bit, but important information that the reader learns in the other stuff I've written thus far isn't mentioned in this, so I'll need to work it in somewhere. It is in first-person now, from Alvin's point of view, instead of third-person and centered around Genesis. The group of friends (Genesis, Shelly, William, the twins, and now Mark) get together every week for dinner and conversation in the apartment Genesis lives in above her tattoo parlor. This part of the story (which might just be chapter two, I'm not sure) starts on the one night each month where all they talk about and share is stories from their past. "Story Night" is the favorite of most/all? of them, and it's Mark's first since he's joined the group, which is fun for the rest of them because they get to retell ones everyone else has heard. Sometimes a story has been told so many times that someone besides the person it involves tells the story, such as if William were to tell the story of the twins as vigilantes in college when they had not even met yet and he was not involved (however, he's heard it enough to tell it accurately). It's good fun without much plot development, but you learn more about the characters and I'm not sure what the plot is quite yet, so right now it's a bit Canterbury Tales.

 I've written seven pages this week, and it's a little over 2,000 words, which isn't bad but I know I can do better because the only days I worked on it this week were Thursday and today. If I can get that much done in two days, think of how much I could be getting done this week. I've gotten introductions out of the way and the first story of story night, the characters are discussing who should tell the second, and then I'm going to have to come up with a couple more before William tells his since he keeps everything locked up tight inside of him and never lets it see the light of day.

So, this week I hope to-- no, I'm going to write every day and get as much done as possible. Hopefully I'll have some sort of plot. I have an idea for one of Mark's sister's to show up having gotten into trouble with some very bad nonhumans that Genesis and possibly others of the group will have to fix.

This week's bit of writing is from the end of Mark's story that he shares about how he met Jessie and Alvin. I'll leave you to wonder how it all went down.
“So, I got my current job, Mama got a job, my family became financially stable, we got a new house, and all of my siblings have graduated high school being the first generation to do so, all because I hit Alvin with a car while he was on his bike,” Mark finished.