G Younger: Blog

I promised to get David and friends through high school and I've talked it over with my editors and we feel that will be a good stopping point. They've threatened me that if I end the book on either a cliffhanger (which I would never do ;-) ) or 'it was all a dream' they will hunt me down.

So the pressure is on to make the last book the best.

What's next?

I will take the Halloween story, The Chosen, and turn that into a full book. We've already outlined it and have a good idea of what we will do to make it a full story.

Then I will write a six story series A Better Man. It will follow the development of a young man who has had some success in high school and he will see if that success can continue through college.

I'm lazy, so creating a new character would be too hard. With that in mind, we will write about David and his friends in college.

Be warned that the writing style for this series will be different. It will no longer be simply first person from David's point of view. If I'd realized how limiting that was when writing a story I would never have started that way. This way I can get other character perspectives and move the story along easier.

The other change will it will not be such a compressed timeline. It won't be a day-by-day diary of David's life.

I've always said that I wrote Stupid Boy to learn to write. I am hoping that A Better Man will help move that along.

Thank you for all your feedback and for putting up with my warped sense of humor.

G Younger

Congratulations to all the winners and thank you for voting me Author of the Year. G. Younger

Some readers have asked for a cast list for the Stupid Boy series. Bud Ugly, my editor that keeps track of such things, informed me that we were 27 names short of 1200 characters. That number staggered me.

So, we decided to focus on just senior year. The list does not begin to describe or even name all of them, but only addresses those who have significant parts to play in our current story.

The cast members are grouped by affiliation to our main character: family, friends, school, sports activities, business, movies, modeling, etc. The easiest way to find a character is to use CTRL-F and enter the character name. That will save the reader a lot of manual searching and scrolling. Note that many characters are listed more than once, as they have multiple roles in our story.

WARNING: There are spoilers here, so be careful what you read.

Please note that what I have currently is a work in progress and when I get the time I will add to it, but it's a start. Right now it only had his closest friends and family. Over the next week or so I will flesh it out.

http://gyounger.com/cast/

G Younger

For those of you that want to read ahead, the book is now available on my site. It will be posted on SOL this fall.

http://gyounger.com/books-for-sol-readers/

Thank you for your support.

G. Younger

Did you know that 'thot' was a word? I had a reader send me some suggested text changes because I wasn't using the most up to date slang. For those of you that don't know, thot means "That Ho Over There;" more or less a synonym for "slut".

I also learned that 'trap' means someone who would appear to be a cute heterosexual but is actually rather effeminate and gay.

To be honest I thought he'd made a typo when I read 'thot'.

I also received emails about Facebook not being the current preferred social media for young people.

It was suggested that I needed to find an editor that was young enough to know all this ... (my editors took offense when I called them old - LOL)

My first reaction was that they were right, I'm not a teen. Haven't been one in more years than I care to admit. I also don't hang out with teens, which is probably good because it would look a little creepy.

Then two things hit me.
1) Who reads my books?
2) If I make the changes to update it for today, will it date my books in five years?

I'm not saying that I won't at some point slip in a Welp, Thot or Trap reference because I will. I would make sure I defined it so people that aren't up to date with the latest slang know what it means.

I also think that it makes sense to not refer to a specific social media platform because they are changing.

I want to thank my readers for helping me. The goal is to continue to grow and improve as a writer.

G Younger