Stephen King does make notes. In On Writing, he talks about waking up from a dream he had on a flight to London and scribbling down a few lines on a airline cocktail napkin. Later on, that became the basis for his Misery novel.
I do carry some paper around with me most of the time in case I think of a nice description or piece of dialogue that I want to write down. One time I had lost my pen and couldn't find it in my bag and the panic at the moment was intense. Good advice on carrying around two of them!
Same. It's weird, sometimes I'll read something rough and be okay with it, but then I try to read something else and I'm like "Nope, can't handle it". I think it might be the level of detail.
I had the opposite happen to me once, back on AFF.net. One of the readers told me that the villain of the story was very confident and sexy. And I was sitting there like
That happened to me when I was left comments for one of @Valkyrie's stories. I loved the story, but I loathed the behavior of the characters and almost every single chapter I left a comment with some iteration of "I can't stand this guy".
Still don't like him.
I can't believe I forgot to respond to this, I am SO SORRY. My brain sometimes...
Julie totally rocks and I agree with you on the term "baby". When Adam uses it with Mikeal, it's something special. Thank you for commenting.
Thank you. I wasn't much on sweet stories when I wrote this, so I'm glad it turned out well. I was actually conflicted on using notes to start and end the story, I worried it was too cheesy, but my beta reader approved, so I left it in. Thanks for commenting!
Thank you! This was a very sweet story to write and I really enjoyed it. I always thought that I was more of a long story writer than a short story writer, but the more short stories I write, the more I like them. I'm glad you do too!
So glad you enjoyed it.
I had a sequel in the works, but it never got published because it didn't land where it needed to. Maybe someday I can get back to it. Thanks for commenting!
Anthony is not a very likable person, in fact, he's a bit fucked up. Manipulative, yes. Heartless, pretty much. Glad you are finding it interesting, although Unrequited is not a very pleasant read.