Krista

Thanks for reading and enjoying the story so far! I've always like a good southern man.. lol.

Thanks for reading! I'm glad you liked the prologue. I'll try to post once a week, we'll see.

Thank you fro reading! I do like these characters as well. The main, Jason is a type that I've not really written a lot, so we'll see about him. I'm glad you liked the story so far!

It seemed I lived in moments for a while after that night. Like surfacing from a frigid lake just to fall back under. Always brief, sometimes filled with unfamiliar voices talking about things I couldn’t understand. Other times only an alarmingly constant beeping. As more of these came, I started to understand that I was in a hospital. That I wasn’t allowed to completely wake up. Whatever they were giving me hadn’t allowed me to relive that night completely. Only in violent flashes would I remem

My Grandmother told me once that death is a force of nature -- like your shadow following close behind you. I didn’t understand her then. I didn’t understand it when she died either. But now that I’m lying here in the violence of my losing battle with life, I understand. She meant that death is a force of nature and that it follows close behind you as innocently as your own shadow -- easily forgotten. She probably meant for it to be romantic, that people are born, try to live a full life, and

Jason Colby hasn't always gotten along with his Parents. So after an argument that led to him walking out on them and the rest of his life, something changes that brings everything crashing back around him.

Aww.. lol. I've always wanted to do like a .."Christmas special" short with them though. Maybe I'll attempt that.

Lol.. No sequel. I don't think...

Thanks for the questions guys! Everything has been fun.

Nah, not too late. I'm still awake. It was planned that they finally do end up together. Brett wanted it from well into the beginning, it was Will that was oblivious and unwilling to admit his feelings. I didn't want the story to be them getting together.. and then the majority of it being a family drama where they didn't approve.. or what ever. I wanted it to more or less be.. Brett and Kat helping Will along.. as he seemed to get in his own way a bit.

Umm.. Brett and Will going into some room, talking about his sister Kat and her being there. I believe Brett ran back from where they came. I've not read Roommates in awhile, but that one still jumps out at me. What is your's?

I open blank documents and just start. I've only recently started doing character lists and such.. because I forget names, but I've fleshed a few of those out.. if I do too much planning I can lose a lot of motivation. I also find after I finish a chapter though, the next "blank" document is a bit daunting depending on how the chapter before it ended. If it ended in a cliff-hanger, then it is easy to just slide into the next. Although, for me if it ends pretty well rounded I have a bit of a.. "oh bah I have to start over.." feeling.. lol. Maybe a tiny bit of outlining would help that.

No, it flowed pretty well and they behaved.. lol. As long as Brett did outlandish things and Will was a bit of stick in the mud, then they were what I wanted them to be. Usually when that happens/goes off track I have to really sit and think about what I want to do next and I don't remember ever feeling that with this story. For example, with SIS, I ended it then extended it (twice). It went well past where I wanted it to be. It still is. With Roommates, I got the growth I wanted.

In my earlier stuff, I didn't really mix angst and humor all that well. So it was either incredible angst driven or not. Which really bogged me down. So I decided with Roommates to be a bit more... romantic-comedy. Now when I write, I find that I enjoy writing angst-lite more than the drama/angst heavy scenes. Length isn't something I think a lot on. It does seem though that my lighter stories are shorter. Roommates wasn't a story I didn't do a lot of planning on. I more or less wanted to escape from, "Are You Christian," for awhile and I believe I just started writing, "Roommates," and didn't stop. I believe it ended easier than anything else I've written. It certainly felt easier anyway. Mostly my characters are like people you can visualize walking down the street. They're not too outlandish or complicated. When I pick a main character type, I want to surround them with people of varying differences in personality. With Roommates, I wanted eccentric yet strict parents that seem a bit out of touch with the 'common' people around them. Will I wanted to be this up tight and oblivious person that needed a good dose of self-reflection. Brett I wanted to just be careless. Not to the point of it being a major flaw, but different. I think as long as you think outside of what is "cookie cutter" with anything you can make them an individual. Brett is a care free, can't hold a job down, fly by the seat of his pants.. sort of person. That has been done over and over again.. but I hope I added something to him that brought him more to life than just that. I write about people around my age... when I wrote Something Unexpected and my earlier works I was in high school myself.. still learning how to write and all that. Now I'm focusing more on young adults. The next two stories I have in the works are about people around my age. In college or just out of it. It is a fun transition time for people and a lot can happen.

Glad you liked the story. Thanks for reviewing! I did have a fun time writing this one.. it went so quickly.

Aww.. lol. Yeah.. I wanted the parents to have a bit of a hypocritical moment with that scene.

And.. that almost sounds lyrical. Was that intentional?

That was before I was at all interested in sports and I hate Christian Laettner for it. I am of course watching, Kentucky. If Wisconsin, Virginia, Butler, or Gonzaga win it all I won't be upset. I like all those teams and they all seem to have classy coaches that don't look or act like used car salesmen. The State of Texas bombed.. absolutely bombed.. and I love it. The Big 12 - who the committee apparently thought was a dominating conference was nearly swept completely out of the tournament... Iowa State owes me a new Bracket. Bad calls at the end of games that decide the outcome - suck. What's the monitor for if you're going to still get it completely wrong... I like upsets. These little bitty schools in these non-talked about conferences really playing hard. And, in the future, I'd hate to be a 3 or a 4 Seed in the tournament.. the last two years.. those seeds have been in a lot of trouble.. they may even have a losing record the past few tournaments..

The one is a quick and easy way to feature everyone that participated. Not all of us post in the Prompt section to show off our prompts. So that was helpful. Maybe do a feature once a month for the "best prompts of the month" and list a couple of those y'all felt were outlandish or fit the prompts.. or what ever criteria used to determine which to feature.

You can list all three.. We won't judge.

I agree with Graeme, these are personal viewpoints of how he sees his son as an individual. Although partially based on what his sexuality means. I believe he is more or less showing his support and concerns in an uplifting way. There are very real concerns in there as well, underlying the uplifting tone. It is nice to see parents step up to that plate and be more proactive.

High School. I was tired of being a good girl.. so after graduation I pretty much picked him out of a crowd of people.. well I knew him, he was a friend.. but we had never dated or anything... so it wasn't completely random. I went back to being a good girl after that..

Thanks for reading and liking it! I'm glad it beat MMPR.. lol. I would have to retire otherwise.. mercy. I likely will expand on this. It was fun to write.

Thanks for reading! It was totally fun to write.

Thanks! It was different, I enjoyed writing it. I wanted to go on, but you know.. prompts aren't supposed to be this grand productions.. lol. But I likely will expand on it. Thanks for commenting!