Acedias

Who isn't crazy these days!! glad u got a surprise ... More coming soon

Awwww ... well you used your story review so that only works once as i understand it. next time i annoy you you'll have to post somewhere else. Maybe.

Maybe. Or maybe Penelope has her reasons

No spellbound is awesome I like that word hehehe .... I especially like 'it's what's happening between Blake and haze' - others tell me nothing is happening!

Hmmm you make some good points. But maybe its just that the experience is pleasurable? Or maybe its just a task orientated activity that forces one to focus on the outside and not get lost in your mind? Or maybe it's the lack of O2 to the brain I always get a little light headed myself hehehe

Hmmm ... Other people say they can't guess what's happening next but I'm starting to think you can .... Or u r cheating hehe ...

Oh I think so, definitely ... you have this character all figured out already bugeye Then again most of my profession are anxious control freaks LOL and most of them worry over every little detail. Law is about getting it right, nailing it down, getting the answer, getting your way ... all of which is about control. No room for mistakes or your looking at a negligence suit. But you dont need to be a lawyer to fail on the self analysis scoreboard. Most human beings are bad judges of themselves, no matter how smart they may be when it comes to assessing others. I reckon thats Blakes story ... maybe ... at least so far hehe

Bonds are formed when people share secrets huh? Even when its accidental. And lets face it, Blake wasn't gonna share willingly!

Monster33 did write a pretty comprehensive review huh ... but I like yours too ... every review I get reminds me I really ought to be writing more! New Chapter coming soon ...

I'm really enjoying you progressivebreviewing bugeye. It's helping me to remember where I was at, at the time and what readers are thinking. The two people theme becomes more apparent but ... People see in others what they know or think about in themselves. Your onto sumthin there ... But peace? In chapter 4? No chance

Thanks again bugeye .... Vivid storytelling is something my school teachers used to say ... Not in a good way. Actually my ex said that too. Hmmm and my boss. None of whom have ever read my writing!

Thanks again bug eye ... But it's not all THAT quirky I have to confess ... I mean I'm a lawyer and love diving and on average I imagining quitting law to become a diver at a remote resort about twice a day. More so in winter ... So not totally "creative writing" on that point LOL

Thanks dude, glad you like As for 13 well it's coming along but not sure yet when it'll be done. I find my writing comes randomly ... Sometimes I sit down and produce nuthin other times it's all coming at. I seem to be averaging a chapter every 10 days on average I reckon!

Hmmm ... I know at least two great spots in OZ for world class diving, but they are as far away from where I live as from one side of the US to the other. OZ is a huge and mostly empty place! Don't joke though, the town I went divin at on the west coast took me a couple of plane trips to get to (one was only a 16 seater plane) followed by another 4 hours driving. I coulda flown to the other side of the world in the time it took me to get around my own country. And if that doesnt sound scary enough remember we got most of the world's deadliest snakes, spiders, jellyfish ... crocodiles ...

Hey bugeye thanks for the review! chapter one was a while ago now, cant even imagine what I was planning back then hehe but glad you liked the writing. The place ain't real 'fraid but plenty of stuff like it in OZ ~ you should check it out one day (disclosure: I do NOT get a referral fee from the Australian Tourist Board)

Wow what an awesome review. Thanks What can I say I'm blown away by your kind words. Names can be a pain huh? I didnt start posting until chapter 5 and before then I changed Haze's name like ten times. It really was Hayden, but then I decided that was what his mother called him and so blake couldnt call him that and then it just became haze all the time. The plan was to switch to hayden for some romantic-ie reason that never happened. anyway. If I could change the name now I would if for no other reason than because sometimes when I am stuck on a sentence, mulling over grammar or choice of a word the fact that haze is actually a word confuses me (and confuses MS Word's grammar function too). But I never moved from Blake. I liked that name. Thats not so unusual surely. Anywayz thanks for reading and reviewing.

I uploaded some fotos of my various divin hols Maybe help the descriptions in my fic more on my profile

Glad you like. I have been trying to drop hints (while still keepin it a surprise) about Haze through Blake's eyes which are so internally focused they miss a lot - Blakes so ready to assume fault and blame for what goes on around him, he's got huge blind spots. It's a bit tricky from one POV to write what the POV-character's not seeing! But yeah it is interesting how people handle stuff differently. Even in families of young siblings (say too young to have developed conscious coping mechanisms) exposed to the same abuse (e.g. domestic violence) will almost never react the same. Some will escape into fantasies (later in life prone to addictions/drugs) go numb and never hurt a fly while others might become rebels and copy the violence themselves against others (later becoming abusive parents to their kids), some will become self punishing finding ways to be inwardly violent (eating issues, cutting) others will try to doctor everyone take on everyones problems and neglect themselves, some become mistrustful and can't connect to people and others become emeshed unable to keep their own identiy, absorbing the traits of their friends or more often partners and cant handle being alone ie connect too much. Since the experience is largely the same and in young kids there isn't much time to have developed personality traits it's fair to say that on some level people are born with tendencies that are innate

Not yet but I had a good days writing this evening and made a good start! So stay tuned

Nope no clues that'll spoil the surprise ... My chief incentivizing tool

This is a shamelessly empty post to get me over 100

I didn't even see your post there anyta ... Guess I got distracted by the agaith hugz Thanks for the encouragement as always

I'm writing chapter 13 now!

:$ Awww now I'm all embarrassed ... Especially getting hugs :$ Glad I'm doin my bit to sell the Aussie holiday experience (but I take a bit of poetic license ... Some of the activities/locations described are really from holidays 1000s kms apart) More coming soon

Right away is tough ... There ain't 24 hours between your review of the first and latest chapter I can't write that quick but I am writing as quick as I can