Wayne Gray

Thanks, molly. I didn't really realize how much it resonated with folks. But, I'm glad. 🙂

🙂 Yeah, I get that now. Thanks, Chris. It'll stay largely intact, just cleaned up a bit.

Thanks for the comment! Yeah, I used to consider it a sin - something to be corrected every time. But now, I'm seeing the merit. If you like to use it yourself then you'd probably dig the story. I plan to start releasing it on GA soon, maybe a chapter a week, between the updates of Silverwolf and Bluegrass Symphony.

Yes! I got to chapter three and realized as soon as Mason, Greg and Clay all began interacting that it'd be a very tough rewrite. It truly would be a rewrite! That's just not what I want to do. Thanks for the comments, Fae!

Ah, I didn't know you had read that one, Kitt! Thanks for the comments. I think it could have been done, but I think you're right... it would have been a lot of telling (some is okay), and I like to leave the reader with the emotional impact of what the character is really feeling, and not the perception of what the character is feeling through the eyes of another. If that makes sense...

It IS quiet. 😳

😊 That’s the plan. I think having awareness is good. Actively deciding where it works and where it doesn’t is really what I’m after now. Thanks, tim.

With all my free time (hahaha!) I've been going through a hard edit of Camp Refuge. It's sort of the story where I found my favorite subject matter. It was where I decided I was no longer a writer of "porn with plot", but rather "erotica with purpose". Head-hopping became my enemy after Camp Refuge. I realized that I did it a lot, and I felt I had to eliminate it in order to improve, and grow. So I did (mostly). Yet, as I edit and as more players are added to the mix in Camp Refuge, I have begun to realize that I cannot rid the story of it. Something would fundamentally change in the telling and not all for the better. Yes, I'd be able to replace a lot of proper names with pronouns if I head-hopped less. But... the reader wouldn't get to see the differences between what Jeremy and Mason are thinking, right in the same scene. They wouldn't get to want to choke Clay for diving down the dark hole of fear, while his son is happy as a lark and unaware of how much his father is hurting. Simply stated: the story would lose something vital. Right now I build scenes linearly, in a single character's perception. Sometimes it's the MC, sometimes it's a raccoon, but it's always a single perception. It's easy, structured, and simple to read. I'm rethinking it. Because, though Camp Refuge needs help in many ways, ridding it of head-hopping doesn't seem to be one.

Great job, being there, Fae. I know it's not easy. It's nice you have an awareness of your youngest Aunt, what she's doing for your family. Hang in there.

Same to you, Reader!

OMG. The lack of context here makes this post so bad. I also approve of that.

I love the INSTANT POT WARNING. It's like a disclaimer in a story that there may be violence or disturbing scenes.

Hehehe. Wolfgang is a smartass, eh? Mama stumbled on the offering left by Maurice in a previous chapter. SOMETHING has laid claim to that offering, and the little raccoon was told to back off. Cider interests me too! It's also the reason this story exists... ah, drunken story ideas! Thanks for reading and commenting! 🙂

And what is the heat doing to those proteins and fats in that steak? 😄

Good point! That's how I started writing, you know. At the time, nobody was writing the stories I wanted to read, so I started doing it myself!

The most worthwhile things are often the most difficult. But, we do them, because if not us, then who?

They are so cute...

I wonder indeed! 🐰

Thanks, Chris. 🙂

Shush! 😋

Then I'm in excellent company!

Thanks, but I am just a little cog in a very worthwhile machine. Though... it's good work. And I LOVE the tiny houses in Austin. They're awesome.

I wrote a story with a man like that. Homeless, and he only needed a little boost - just a tiny moment where someone cared enough to help. And he paid it all back, plus some. I work with the homeless. We do our damnest to bring dignity to their lives in the minutes we interact with them. But... there needs to be more.

Looks like it's upholding a ban on camping in public spaces. Which, is just another way to criminalize homelessness. https://kdvr.com/2019/05/07/denver-election-initiative-300-projected-to-fail-would-have-ended-camping-ban/ So... the good folks who have a place to sleep at night don't have to see their parks with a reminder that homelessness exists. How nice for them.

We have room in Eureka. And you can probably find a television somewhere in this rural wilderness.