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I certainly don't mind, that makes sense to me! I'll swap them! Great suggestion. 🤗 Edit - But it will require a rewrite and that I'm not doing right this minute.
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I hadn't even noticed that!
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LOL! Yes, I did. Not on purpose! That just happens, every so now and then. But you'e all very lucky. The Netherlands is having a shi**y summer. Lots of rain and cold (15 degrees celcius). Bah. Good weather for writing. We're not allowed to up multiple chapters a day. Only 1, and doing that, i'd run out of chapters too fast for the editor to keep up. So I gotta pace it a bit.
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Ehm...there might be something happening in a little while...😉
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Oh, I've been known to make readers wait for a year.....woops? LOL! It doesn't happen on purpose, but sometimes I write a lot in one go, when the mood strikes me, and then it's months of absolutely nothing, no inspiration. Confounded II took ages. Mind you, I started this one during Confounded III - it came into my head and wouldn't let go, so I had to get rid of the excess story in my head so it wouldn't mix up with Confounded III. Now that they're separate, I can finish both, and should be able to.
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Hmm, I can imagine songs in parts of the story. This chapter was written with "Tell me now (what you see)" by Moya Brennan on repeat. The rooms have not been painted yet. There's a reason for it, which will become evident soon enough. The cigars is purely an atmospheric thing, it takes him back to evenings with his nan, reading while a cigar of hers lay forgotten in an ashtray. That particular visual evokes happiness and comfort in him.
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CHAPTER 6 - Kai Adam and real life made me wait. A week passed and no letter came. Then I was informed that I’d finally be transferring to Walter Reed and though I was happy at the prospect of finally being able to see my family, I became uncharacteristically cranky, lashing out at no one in particular. Anyone coming near me was at risk of at least a growl. I’m usually even-tempered. Eight days. Nine. Nothing. No letter. I’d received a big long one from Megan in the meantime and a
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Around there, yes.
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I'm with the Secretary of I'm-not-gonna-tell...yet. 😈 That's accurate. 👍 This is getting ahead a little. 😊 Of course they visited him, Kallan even went to Germany. They have visited, just not very regularly. With missing them, he's referring to regularity. It'll come up.
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I'm sorry, I uploaded the wrong picture. I edited it to reflect the new one. The old one tied me to a place, and I didn't want that too specific. 😁
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CHAPTER 5 - Adam A little over a week after I sent my last letter, Kai wrote back. I was just returning from a long walk with Arya when I saw the disappearing tail lights of the mailman’s van; a slight drizzle was just starting. It was Saturday. I love rain. Everything smells fresh and clean. I smiled to myself when the thought appeared that I wanted to tell that to Kai. I had begun making a habit of writing things down that I might want to mention; the pad in the kitchen had three ful
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Doubter beds are pretty common, it's like 1.5 bed. I never heard the English term for it, and apparently the editor neither, because he removed/changed it, lol! But it's not for me either; king size please, even when alone. I want room. 😂 He did not meet Megan during the sale, because he bought it, sight unseen. Just from pictures when he contacted a realtor when he was looking for a place, willing to renovate. He bought it for the location. But he met her sometime after, briefly. That'll come up soon. It's something he's forgotten. 😊
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Sure....raise the bar....thanks. Thank you so much! 😂
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Nope, you're right on the money. 😂
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It's not blatantly asked or offered. But a good question, one I didn't want to blatantly address in the letters. Might come across as very rude. It's more in the way they respond to each other that they both know: yeah, this is alright, I can be myself. True, and it's in his mannerisms and style which, while stereotypical, works. At least, for this story. But his empathy when responding to Kai about Ryan is a bit of an inkling that Kai's in the clear, so to speak. He senses that he's got a likeminded individual in correspondence. It won't. 😂
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Changed! Well spotted!
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😂 You can imagine anyone you wish in the roles, I have no actors in mind. But we are visual creatures so if I had to choose anyone for that particular part, it'd be Ben Whishaw, in later years (not the James Bond era one).
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CHAPTER 4 - Kai I felt myself again when I looked in the mirror these days. Running my hand over the sides and back, the velvety feel of the millimeter-cut felt familiar and clean. On top it was longer; a suggestion of the hairdresser. Why the heck not. If I was retiring from service, I might as well get back into civilian looks. He hadn’t been wrong; I thought it made me look younger. “Mail call.” I heard the flop of letters on the bed and headed into the room, nodding at the ord
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LOL! Oh, thank you for that, you had me laughing out loud, LOLOLOL! Edit: I left a little gift for you.
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Yep, just read this again, and I don't like this chapter or behavior. It's wrong. I'll rewrite it, that's a promise. I Just don't know when.
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Let's not take this any further, shall we? I'll have a riot on my hands soon. 😂
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It flew through my mind as I typed it and deliberately reversed it. 😂
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I drive my editor insane with semicolons and punctuation. They almost have to rewrite the entire thing at times. 😉
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Actually, I'm gonna go with a much simpler solution: Downstairs/Upstairs. 😂
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Oh, you're good! I love it, I'm gonna use that, with your permission?
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