CassieQ

Great advice as always! I love flawed characters, mostly because I like seeing how they overcome their flaws in a story. Perfect characters falling in love with other perfect characters gets a huge eye roll and sigh of disappointment.

As a person who had read nearly the entire series, I HIGHLY recommend the first three in this series (Luck in the Shadows, Stalking Darkness, and Traitor's Moon). After that it gets...weird.

I went through a period when my sleep was disturbed as well (no sexy dreams unfortunately ) and it can really mess things up. Your comment about the sleeping pills made me chuckle a little bit though. Maybe Casey is not the only one with sleep issues, huh? Thanks for commenting!

Poor Galen. My heart just breaks for him in this chapter.

Firstly, I do believe I care for Josh, a little bit, because otherwise I wouldn't find him so incredibly frustrating. I know that you say Josh isn't a bad guy, but he isn't acting like a good guy. The way he dangled the possibility of a relationship in Galen's face at the wedding only to rebuff Galen's advances later on was unbelievably cruel. Josh has hurt Galen again and again by being a spineless coward who isn't willing to fight for Galen the way Galen was willing to fight for him. Now that Galen is broken and hurt, Josh has an opportunity to stand the fuck up and be strong for Galen but instead he is sniveling in the corner and depending on Jody, of all people, for comfort. There is a serious stumbling block in their relationship, but it's Josh, not Roger, who is the problem. BTW, I hope something really really terrible happens to Roger. I like the story and I like the way you write realistic characters with deep flaws but Josh really needs to pull it together, get his head out of his ass, and be the stand up guy that Galen deserves. (I can't remember the last time I was this invested in a story, good job).

This chapter certainly did not endear me to Josh at all. Poor Galen has been through hell and fighting for his life and Josh is over here moping, about how mad HE is, and how bad HE feels....He is all ME ME ME. Seems very selfish.

Dammit. Just...dammit. I'm going to bed.

Thank you for the comment. More interesting things are in store for Casey! Thank you for commenting, glad you are intrigued. You'll find out more about the mysterious nightly visitor soon!

I'm scared for Galen. Like seriously scared.

Thank you! We will definitely learn some more about the visitor later on, and what it means for him (and Raphael eventually). Thanks for commenting! Glad to hear it. There is more to come! Thank you! I'm glad you are liking it. I plan to have new chapters up in the next few weeks!

Thank you. The mystery figure become more prominent in future chapters. I hope to have new chapters up every other week or so.

I didn't mind the whole arc with Holdo and Poe. Poe IS too rebellious for his own good, that was the point. I'd like to see if he has learned and grown a little bit by the time we come around to Ep 9.

If you wanted another movie with a plucky young Padawan learning from a wise master, I suggest you give Ep 5 a watch. I agree some scenes were just bad (the one with Leia comes to mind) but there were also some great characters arcs in the movie, especially regarding Kylo Ren and Luke Skywalker, with some decent development with Finn, Poe and Ray as well. I think taking the movie in a new direction was a risk, and that it paid off this time.

Casey wondered if people who went crazy, knew they were going crazy. Knew that the things they saw, heard, were not real; were not the truth. Or if they just accepted it was truth, let themselves slide into delusion and psychosis, easily, smoothly, until they didn't even realize how deeply they were caught in the intricate trap their own minds had created. Casey feared he was going crazy. The fact that he was aware of it did little to reassure him. At first, there were just the dreams; m

Between the dreams, the sleep deprivation, and the hallucinations, teenage loner Casey is left wondering if he really is going crazy.

I agree that Lucas was horrible. Prequels were boring and dry. The new ones are great!

I know there are some people who were unhappy with the way the plot went, but I'm not one of them. There were some things I didn't like, but overall, I thought it was fine. I think Rian Johnson was in a rough spot. Fans were unhappy with Ep 7, because it the storyline was too close to the original Ep 4, and then people didn't like this one because it was too different. We are hard to please.

A flop? Wasn't The Last Jedi the second highest grossing release of 2017 after only 2 weeks in theaters?

Sounds like it. Maybe if the teachers are reading out the answers for the student to chose, it would be okay, but outright telling students that the correct answer is A, then yes, that's is definitely wrong.

Great article. I've been told "show, don't tell" a lot when I was first starting, and it was incredibly frustrating not to have anyone elaborate on what it meant like this. Another saying that I find even more helpful is "Demonstrate, don't lecture".

Thank you so much! Diego and Cairo were so much fun to write about!

The White Road isn't too bad, the worst errors were in Shadow's Return, but if you've gotten past those, you should be good. They came up again in Casket of Souls...apparently she either couldn't remember or decided to change the colors in the Street of Lights and I'm just like

I found another thing that makes me skip or stop reading. Continuity errors. Lynn Flewelling wrote some of my favorite books (The Tamir Triad) and the first three books of her Nightunner series are excellent, but the last three have had minor and major continuity flaws. It has really turned me off reading her books altogether, which is sad, because I used to really enjoy them.

It's good to hear from you again.

Research is essential for writing. I've read stories that have had a wrong detail (not a small detail) and it completely ruined any interest in reading further.