Hamster wheel works!

Hamster wheel is much more effective than acetaminophen, tramadol, or vicodin, or any combination of those, or any combination of those plus icing and/or hot bath and/or ergonomics.

I should live on the hamster wheel (by which I mean my stationary bike).

Also, I have written the preliminaries to the need fire. I hope this doesn't end up reading like a cross between The Culture of Poverty and a nineteenth-century ethnography.

Also, is it okay that the protagonist keeps doing these things that kind of save the people around him, though maybe not, and yet -- he's never a hero? Okay, I think I answered my question. I think I just figured out why these things keep happening.

That character that strolled on to the stage a couple chapters ago out of nowhere? He sure is a useful git. All sorts of things that I knew had to happen or be said but which I had atgtributed to various other characters can now be consolidated into Siggimond. Who is either an awful, awful person or a pretty good kid, depending on what I'm thinking about at the moment.

And today I'm going to make Paul Brian's fruitcake again, inspired by Ffrank and Hana, who made it yesterday. But I forgot eggs so I have to go back for them.

A question of ettiquette, or something

There is an online writer of serials whose work I generally enjoy. But the latest story -- not unlike some others in my memory -- has simply gone on too long, and I've lost interest. In my mind the story resolved months (and chapters) ago, and everything that came after has been just boring, because all the tension is gone.

Is it helpful to tell a writer this? Or is it likely to just seem peevish and insulting to say something like that? A lot of online writers seem to do this with their favorite characters.