This was self edited. One of these days I'll go back over the whole thing and fix the glaring grammatical faux pas.
I'll fix this one now.
Thanks for the catch!
Great article. This is exactly what happened to me with the last story I posted. It languished in my docs for nearly three years before I dusted it off. I'm still not completely satisfied with it, however, during the finishing process the writing led to ideas for two subsequent stories.
The one I'm currently working on is far better (imho). I think I needed to work through the first story in order to get to where I am in the overall story arc.
Three years isn't too bad when the end result will be three stories in the series. Who knows, it may be even more eventually. An author never knows what secondary characters will start yelling inside their brains for a story of their own!
Up until this past week, this was the hardest chapter I'd ever written.
Cassie-she is probably the strongest (mentally and emotionally) character I've written. Definitely one of my favorites. The gurl is made of steel. (And a whole lotta snark and sarcasm, part natural and part defense mechanism)
I love your impression of Lex and his way of handling his abuse. Everyone deals with it differently and I'm glad you understood where he was coming from.
Ian. Honestly, the way I hear his voice, it's a wonder I got through this story at all. 🔥 😊
Date night, not that I'm admitting to such a thing so soon, but anyway, shall be rather unique, shall we say?
The names get explained. Kinda funny story, now that you mention it.
Jarren has his own gig going on. Besides....what would your husband say?
Yes, Lex has oodles of secrets. You sure you want to go there?
Happy reading and when you meet Cassie tell that whacky bee-atch hello from me. It's been a while since she's been in my head.
There's also the faux pas of all sentences which is the run on, often indicated by multiple commas, trying to connect multiple thoughts, but by using too many conjunctions to connect those thoughts, thereby becoming much too long, with no end in sight, and usually rambling because the writer keeps going on and on and loses control of the sentence. Whew.
It sometimes takes some trial and error. My Doc upped my blood pressure dosage again because it just can't decide on it's own what it wants to do. At least now that I'm on the highest dose of lisinopril I can self monitor every day and will only need to go back in if it decides to stay high. I lucked out on cholesterol. Only slightly higher than it should be and the "good" stuff is where it should be. Tweaking the diet again should tame that beast.
Hope everyone has a good weekend coming up.
It's the worst when you find out it's a family member. Especially one who's a "fine, upstanding member of society". Not to mention the "golden child" of the family, can do no wrong. Puh-leeze. Deserves to be castrated without anesthesia.
One can always atone for prior lack of comments with a glowing review and recommendations. 😉🤭 lol.
Thanks for reading and I'm glad you enjoyed it. With any luck the next installment should be ready by mid-June(ish). It's a lot longer.