TheEggman

With forty-seven chapters of "A New Life" posted, I think can answer this. Part of the answer is timeline. "Shit" happens over time. What do people like? Drama? Horror? Romance, of course. More than anything, they want to see people deal with their "shit". In ANL, there's buckets of "shit". Prez has to deal with the death of his mother and lots of memories. There's also the musical growth of the band - not mention the growth in all the various relationships. What about Jake's trial? For how long will Jake be sentenced? What else might happen over the summer? Or during their senior year of high school? Will it be like your senior year? Do you wish your senior year was like that? Will Prez, Keith, Mike and Derrick ever get together for some four-way fun? Interested yet? No? Oh well, can't please everyone. The person that needs to be most pleased is the author.

In "A New Life" chapter 13, Preston looses his mother. Since then, its been a balancing act - on the one hand, memories of a lost loved one; on the other, the "present day" events, character interactions and a moving timeline. They say that every hurt makes us stronger and I try to relay that in the story. For every pain there is some growth or reward, though it may take multiple hurts for single distant reward.

Feedback? It's too rare to rely on. Back in 1999 I received at least 20 e-mails a day. That hasn't been the case for a long while now. I write what I want when I want. My only proof that people still read the stories are the occasional e-mails from new Nifty readers and my site's NedStats counter.

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Hi, TheEggman here in California's SF Bay area. I'm the author of "Mark", "A New Life" and "Neil and Rich".