After the double-dose in the last post, this chapter might feel on the shorter side. And it is.
Read If It Weren't For the Two of Us, Chapter 40 here.
I'm a big fan of December. I love decorating, but it is not so much that I miss decorations after the holidays are over, I hate taking them down and putting them away. The boxes everywhere stress me out. Usually it is only two or three days, but there is a huge sense of relief when it is all packed away. (Having three trees doesn't help the situation.) Sounds like Mike and Trent won't be too over-the-top. I didn't intend to put them in full Griswold mode.
I wrote If It Weren't For the Two of Us so long ago, I could never have imagined when chapters would be posted. When I started, I wasn't sure if I would even share my writing with anyone. Who could have foreseen how chapters and posts would land over this past year. If I had expert timing, I would have tried to align the appropriate holiday posts closer to the time they played out in real life. Alas, I was too late. It still reads the same, but much like sitcoms that try to have their seasonal episodes with close-to-the-holiday airings, it would have been nice for you to have that "feel" too.
Book Two and Book Three are tightly aligned through the "holidays." That will probably affect how they are posted. When I see Chapter 40 now online, it suprises me how close we are to finishing Trent's book. Only five chapters remain. Because Hi, I'm Lance is also posting, it will still take a few weeks for this book to wrap up, but it is on the horizon for sure.
Authors tend to get attached to the characters they create. Be assured Trent isn't completely going away after his book finishes. If It Weren't For the Two of Us is just his story. I'll keep him around.
A lovely chapter. I'm glad that Trent's father is working on being more accepting of the concept of Trent and Mike. I just hope that Trent can find it in his heart to forgive his dad, especially now that Mike has done so.
ReplyDeleteYour newest chapter was excellent and visiting Trent’s parents handled beautifully. Story just gets better. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteIf you decided to have a four way between Mike, Jakob, Trent and Lance, which indirectly it seems to be on their minds, there is no need for it to be a drama. If it was me I'd have them do the orgy, enjoy it, stay friends and move on.
ReplyDeleteOh, and don't kill off anyone else please.
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Once again I've had pretty much the same response as the previous commenters to this clear-headed follow-up to the preceding "double-dose." Timothy, I have a high degree of trust in your storytelling instincts, and always appreciate the respect as well as affection you show for your characters. Yes, even Trent's father -- maybe he really has changed. It's not easy, but people do! The guy is a product of his upbringing and culture, and while this explains rather than excuses his extreme behavior, the thing that seems to me to have contributed most to the remarkable change in public attitudes toward homosexuality over the last several decades is the discovery by so many straight folks that they actually know gay people, and the reality bears hardly resemblance to the grotesque degenrates the culture indoctrinated them to believe in. Even Jakob's father, a considerably more virulent homophobe than Trent's, is finding himself in a state of confusion -- a pretty dramatic change from the vicious certainty he once "enjoyed."
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DeleteI agree. Years and years ago, all the public had to go by is what the media portrayed in coverage of "raids" or extreme behavior. The fact that a great number of families have a gay relative nowadays makes it commonplace and presents homosexuality as a section of the "normal" general public.