CassieQ

You could go for the absolutely insane choice and do both.

Thank you for commenting, and I'm glad this brought up some nice memories of your friend for you. I'm also glad to hear how much you like Jay. Thank you again!

I don't mess with snow or ice. I've slid on it before, just a little bit and it was extremely unnerving to feel that loss of control. Your story sounds terrifying, I probably would have been in tears at the end.

Can confirm that southern states are lacking in snow removal equipment. In Georgia, we got ice, not snow.

I'll let you write that. I like my three-ways.

Thank you! While I don't mind writing a good three-way, a four-way would be a bit much for me. All those...limbs. This was a lot of fun and I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Considering the theme, I went into this fully expecting to write something tragic where everyone involved made very bad choices. My focus was on Jack, but to try answer your question about Damon and Will, there are several ways I could see it going. Damon wasn't nearly as popular as Jack and hung out with a very different crowd. He and Will might not have been very open about their relationship until now, especially considering the reaction of his mom and chose to "fly under the radar" so to speak. As for Jack, I don't see an easy road ahead for him, and frankly, I don't think he deserves one. I think he's fallen as far as it is possible for him to go (except for maybe jail) and it's up to him if he wants to claw and fight his way back up or wallow around down there. Thanks for all the comments!

Jack has a great talent for dropping the ball more often than my 4 year old nephew at his first day of T ball practice. Thanks for commenting.

Thank you for commenting. Jack is indeed a little dense and too easily swayed by the awful people around him. (With the exception of Damon).

Thank you. I always get a little nervous when I see a reader step onto this crazy train.

Very cool!

A fitting word for my birthday. I love solitude.

I don't think that came across for me. That'll teach me to read before coffee. Sorry for misunderstanding.

We have a low of 16 tonight and a driveway coated with ice. I'll gladly swap.

I get this, but there is a considerable difference between having a character who might have bad grammar because of upbringing/situation and grammar mistakes in the writing of the story. If I read a character who had awful grammar in thoughts/dialogue but the rest of the story was fine, I wouldn't think that the writer was a bad editor. It's two different things to me.

I think on this site, it does. Prolific writers are listed by number of words, I believe. If you want more quality, I would look at the Promising/Classic/Signature writers, or check the top recommendations on the story page. Those are usually solid.

I always make sure my stories are edited. I recognize my own shortcomings in that area, so often utilize an additional editor for most of my stories and they have all been phenomenal. However, every so often a reader will notice a mistake or error and point them out. They are usually small, and easy to fix, and something that my eyes, which have read the same thing over and over and over, just didn't catch. So no one is perfect, but a story that is obviously full of mistakes and errors, like has not even been proofread, would be 1) hard to read and 2) hard for me to believe it's going to be a quality story, if the author couldn't even be fussed to fix glaring problems. There are exceptions, I think it's important to be lenient with writers who are using a second language, etc. But I think editing is part of the writing process, and needs to be learned, at least the basics. Most of the stories I read on site are edited well. Those that aren't, I just don't read.

I usually don't make New Year resolutions, as I think self improvement should be a life long pursuit. But I did notice near the end of the year that I was spending a lot of time on my phone and wasn't really enjoying it. So I'm tracking my phone usage and trying to replace time spent on my phone with more reading and writing. We'll see how it goes. And Happy Birthday to the mysterious stranger!

Finish a story.

They are calling for some nasty weather our way this weekend. I expect the grocery store to be a madhouse

Norovirus is spreading like fire up here too. I had it a few Christmases ago, no thanks.

Happy New Year!!

I would advise against using Wattpad as a literary aspiration. But that's just me.

Spending the last week or so trying to get settled in the new house between all the holiday happenings. Still doesn't feel quite like home yet, but hopefully time will help.

Happy Fruday!