Okay, so we jumped pretty ahead with things here. I suck at skipping long periods of time in books, so it was rather painful for me to let go of a whole entire week of story-time (which no doubt would have been filled with people talking about nothing for chapters at a time), but I did.
I’m actually kinda getting a kick out of the fact that Kourtnee hasn’t had any lines of dialogue yet. Originally, I had to skip the early L/K romance in favour of the Merri/Thad one at the club. And after that, there just hasn’t been a place for it. Now I just think it’s funny that she’s technically been present for a few scenes, but hasn’t actually said anything... I think I’ll just make it an ongoing joke.
Here we also have a brief visit from the Plot Contrivance Gods. Okay, so I had a number of visits, but it’s fiction, so I’m allowed to. I have no real defense, except that I went over a dozen scenarios of how he could have gotten in the song request, and went with this one. And I think that, because it led to the final scene with her and Levi, I can be forgiven.
I wanted to play G/P (Genton? Penevieve?) as realistic as possible—nervous, awkward, uncomfortable... Gen’s never had a relationship before, and it makes sense that she’s unsure of herself.
I did rather like this chapter. I really liked Levi and Sage at the end. The whole scene made me quite sad, and I liked that she was able to completely break down in front of someone.
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"She wrapped evil around her like a large, evil Mexican serape."
Author Commentary
“Let’s do the time warp agaaaaaaain!”
Okay, so we jumped pretty ahead with things here. I suck at skipping long periods of time in books, so it was rather painful for me to let go of a whole entire week of story-time (which no doubt would have been filled with people talking about nothing for chapters at a time), but I did.
I’m actually kinda getting a kick out of the fact that Kourtnee hasn’t had any lines of dialogue yet. Originally, I had to skip the early L/K romance in favour of the Merri/Thad one at the club. And after that, there just hasn’t been a place for it. Now I just think it’s funny that she’s technically been present for a few scenes, but hasn’t actually said anything... I think I’ll just make it an ongoing joke.
Here we also have a brief visit from the Plot Contrivance Gods. Okay, so I had a number of visits, but it’s fiction, so I’m allowed to. I have no real defense, except that I went over a dozen scenarios of how he could have gotten in the song request, and went with this one. And I think that, because it led to the final scene with her and Levi, I can be forgiven.
I wanted to play G/P (Genton? Penevieve?) as realistic as possible—nervous, awkward, uncomfortable... Gen’s never had a relationship before, and it makes sense that she’s unsure of herself.
I did rather like this chapter. I really liked Levi and Sage at the end. The whole scene made me quite sad, and I liked that she was able to completely break down in front of someone.
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"She wrapped evil around her like a large, evil Mexican serape."