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Working It Out by Don Hanratty's a great, fast paced novel that took me through a series of roller coasters along the ride. I just finished Book 1 (of 3) and I must say it was a great novel. I have to admit that the novel's speed was a bit too quick for me, as in before I could get any time to really realize what's going in the surroundings, the scene changes and you're shocked by the next series of events that happen in the plot. There is no "plateau" where things just randomly settle down for some time and then *boom* - it's just a constant chain and waves of *boom boom boom* you can't slow down, you can't react, you just keep reading. There were typos... some more major than minor, such as in Chapter 11 when uh... wait.... that threw me off quite a bit until I kept rereading the paragraph until it made sense. Other than some of the more liberties that the author took to somehow many every single one of his plot twists believable because every single one of them are just as unbelievable as the previous one, it has an interesting take to how the author forces the reader to consistently twist their brains in such a way that the plot twists are never "expected" or "storybook". However, the foreshadowing of "not being able to have kids via conventional methods" definitely came to mind especially at the end of Book 1. I'm starting Book 2 now. I can definitely get used to this Great job Don H. http://donh.gayauthors.org/ ---- In other news, I have a few ideas for a novel of my own, which are spread out from a weird "40 year old virgin" story for a gay guy... a high school gay romance that forces both to take on fake straight lives... a city boy/country cowboy romance... I just hope that when the time comes I don't get too much writer's block - and it doesn't read like a messy third grader's scribbled text.

Yeah that's what I figured. I think what I'll end up doing is that I'll first work on my own writing style by writing my own story and see where/how it takes me. Once I have a style I want to do work with, I'll work on permission and the rest afterwards. The ideas are there, I just don't know what I want to do in terms of "living up to expectations"... Thanks for the info and I'm definitely going to work on getting my first story's ideas down first before I post again

But I want to start writing some alternative endings to certain stories I've read - not anyone in particular... just go along and see what I can come up with. Anyone got pointers on where I should go to start posting chapters when I'm ready?

Next up: http://donh.gayauthors.org/working-it-out/index.php

heh and they told me i read too slow

Everybody's Wounded, by Duncan Ryder, is an award winning story here on GA. Link: http://duncanryder.g...org/stories.php This story was a very complicated yet refreshing love story - yet to describe the story with mere words like intimate, intense, shocking... all just sounds too bland to properly give a description as to the powerfulness of how DR presented the novel. I think Duncan Ryder has brought me outside of the realm of dkstories finally and I think I'm going to begin moving towards other hosted authors here on GA. I can't wait until How the Light Gets In is finished so I can begin reading it. I want to thank Frostina for recommending me to read Duncan Ryder... and I wanted to thank Duncan Ryder for writing the story... he made me want to live in Canada even though I don't like the cold sometimes... props to him.

OH WHAT?!?! You call /that/ an ending?! oh come on... Okay I'm done with Dawn of Tears now... grrrrr

I actually understood what was posted... and find it awkward

I've read 28 chapters of Dawn of Tears and so far I've loved it as much as I've loved the first Do Over novel. Although I really would have liked the specifics to be a little more consistent along the storyline, from simple things like calling Dylan's jet first a 797 and then a 787 to more important details along the plot, I really would had a better time reading if the story text was better edited and reviewed. I wonder if people could help Dan edit these stories and republish them? There are five chapters left and I'm not sure if I'll like the ending, but at least /so far/ there weren't as many plot holes or flaws with the delivery of the plotline to justify an ending quite yet. I really hope I enjoy the last few chapters. As a musical compliment: last time when I read Do Over I said that Inception Soundtrack played over a loop syncs up perfectly... For Dawn of Tears, although it doesn't sync up perfectly, I've found that the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 soundtrack also does a pretty good job with getting the story synced up sometimes (All 10.7 hours worth of game soundtrack ) Dawn of Tears, by dkstories, may be found here: http://dkstories.gayauthors.org/dawn/

Thanks Myr, I'll keep that in mind

I was going to see if I could help Dan fix some of the typos in his various stories... but I think that'd be almost like putting down a god

These are the dkstories stories I've finished, reading, or waiting to read. Dreams of Humanity Dreams of a Father The Beard The Bully Dawn of Tears (Completed 17JAN2011) Goon Do Over Do Over Redux Doing It Right Let's Do It Rich Boy: Awakening Rich Boy 2: Growing Pains Rider's Pride (Not going to read until I get a chance to read the other book first) The Wreckers (No longer offered on the LuLu market...) dkstories's stories may be found at: http://dkstories.gayauthors.org/