irish Writer: Blog

8 requests for me to open up for editorial comments.
Guys. I want to tell you I don’t care about your incidental spelling comments. You don’t like it, go read somewhere else.
Rate me and move on. And write something better.

One a week is about as good as I can provide good quality in writing, cleanup, and story definition. So I think that I will promise that as a Level of delivery.
This last chapter shows a lot of maturity in Hank. And some of the sort of anger that he is capable of. Attack of a companion of Hank is a sure way to encounter an adverse result.
I want to get you to think about Cindy's involvement in Hank's life. Duke is consistently among the top ten medical schools in the nation. And the Pediatrics section is number 7 in the nation.People who get early admission to that school are not dumb blondes. She is empowered by her contact with Hank. And like Maggie, she is going to be away from Hank for a long period of time. She also has an interest in xenobiology. Ogre, Dwarf, Elf, and Trolls, Oh My.
So, what do you do with a woman who is going to be in the top ten percent of one of the top ten medical schools in the nation? who has energy to burn.
Paula is also an evolving woman. Extremely smart, but inhibited for far too long by the rules of an abject mistress, she is blossoming into a woman. Her loss of virginity came in the right place to help her suddenly transform. And guess what? She's having fun. Oh my.
I haven't done much with Natalie yet. she is a work for the future.
And this is just Senior Year. What will happen as Hank moves into the Gap year?
Stay tuned. There is a lot more to come.

The goat's comments were pretty intelligent. He asked the same question others have asked about "Hank's Romantic Life". Namely "Where is the romance?" "Where is the woman he is going to become attached to?" and lastly "Can he make it with Wendy, who is also a Mage in growth?"

The answer to this is simple. Hank has realized that a Lifelong Partner is not going to be in his portfolio. Lady Eisenham has told him that she's over 500 years old, and Lady Elizabeth Drummond has said that she has had 5 or so "Partners" in her 500 plus years of life. He knows that his sister, despite his efforts to prolong her life will probably only last a century or so. And the Earl of March (Sir David Drummond) is easily older than all of the non Wizard Mages in the American Council. All of his contemporaries in Magic are older than he is. All of the people he is socially with have a limited "Shelf Life".

He also has seen a life lesson in Pat. Who managed to kill an early girlfriend and cripple himself with a car as a result of his negligence.

Add to this the recognition that he get's Laid often enough and with enough variety that he doesn't need to worry about the High School Courting Dance that others have to practice.

And more surprises are to come. He needs the flexibility to unencumbered by "life long" romance.

After reading a few of the e-mails, one author I had a lot of
respect for pointed some thing out to me.
"This kid is 17 going on 50. Of course some of his words and thoughts were scrambled. Kids brains don't get good impulse control until they are 25 or so. And some make stupid mistakes. And a Few get caught in the middle of youth and adult too soon. "

So I have resubmitted this story after going through carefully and looking for mistakes. I think I got most of them.

But to the readers, I want to say if reading this story is like one reader described, then that's all right with me. He described it as being in a convertible, top down, bright sunny day, driving out in the country and hitting a mass of potholes. The jarring just made him uncomfortable. My advice? Drive carefully. Miss the potholes. Enjoy the story.

Did you ever have one of those situations where you THOUGHT you were uploading the right chapter and you weren't? This happens when you use Word, in conjunction with OneDrive, which does not update your most recent copy until you log out and then back in.
So, I uploaded the shortened chapter 6. And then when I went back and read it this morning, I found that it was cut off 1/2 way through. So I had to massage the 6.1 to reflect deletion of the material of 6.0 and save it as a 7. And I cursed my computer all the while.
I can only say that I have been away from writing too long which allowed me to make such a BONEHEAD mistake. Oh well. So today I do 2 inserts, and start on the Wednesday chapter.