MrM,
I'm so glad you added a comment here. It gives me the opportunity to praise your "Brandon Smiles" series. I absolutely LOVE it! A great companion story to Comsie's "Secret Life of Billy Chase". And, you write so well! I'm looking forward to reading more chapters. You are definitely on MY radar.
I too am hooked on this genre (Gay-romance-teen) ever since I read my first Comicality story, which was "Billy Chase". And since have read everything Comsie has written, and more than once. It is he most of all that I compare my own writing with. I DO realize that Comsie has over 10 years experience, whereas I have written one story, so I'm trying not to be so hard on myself.
What I found cathartic, was not so much reading the stories, but actually writing one. It was then that I was able to express with my own heart "what might have been".