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I'm wondering which of the very creative authors on this site will be the first to write a tale using the theme of a story thief who scrapes free sites and sells stories written by others.
Gentlemen, start your engines... Wonder who'll get into pole position. It's a new story universe in the making!
Just kidding... but maybe not!
I'll weigh in with yet another posting supporting the comments in Jay's blog entry on story feedback. I recently got an email where the writer crowed that he gave one of my SOL scribblings a "1."
He said, in part, "Having given my first and only 1 rating, I assume you may wonder why. This is not a rating for the NiS universe. This was my opinion on your..." and he goes on to tell me why he so strongly disagrees with the material I wrote!
Fascinating, irritating, but in a way, rewarding. Why is a "1" rewarding? Well, I chose to look at his comments in a positive way. Apparently my writing engendered such passion in this reader that he felt compelled to react so strongly that he voted the story down and then wrote me about it. Isn't that a writer's dream? To evoke such a strong passion in a reader--positive OR negative--that he has to communicate that passion to the author?
In a way, that's one of the best compliments an author can receive. Knowledge that one of my writings so strongly affected a reader. Pretty cool.
I really thought I had finished telling Kevin's and Denise's story after they began college, but Denise shanghaied me recently and told me what the two had been up to recently. Then she used her inestimable persuasion skills to get me to write up their experiences. The story is in the queue.
The six kids learn about the true route to sensuality, trust, and respect, as they realized how the Program's design failed to achieve its goals wherever it was tried. Back at the high school again, school officials try to repair the damage that the resistance has done to the Program. But the forces of resistance have been mobilized and only await some triggering events to fully unleash them.
This is the final instalment. It's in the queue.
The "Four Musketeers" are now quickly becoming six as the kids discover all of the things they share in common. As students in their new school, Kevin and Denise are once again faced with the Program, but don't have the history of their high school junior year to have to emulate. Now Kevin gets his chance, with Denise's able assistance, to deal with the Program from Kevin's favored position -- that of strength. And Kevin and Denise now have strong allies who can help. Allies who also offer to introduce them to social nudism.
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