friends Crash and Jessie. Was reading the story when my computer crashed. Forgot to note authors name.
friends Crash and Jessie. Was reading the story when my computer crashed. Forgot to note authors name.
Dance of a lifetime, Don Lockwood
https://storiesonline.net/a/Don_Lockwood
https://storiesonline.net/s/40258/dance-of-a-lifetime
What was Don Lockwood's pen name when he first posted this story? Or is that likely to cause a problem?
"Review by tendertouch [other reviews by tendertouch - Contact Reviewer]
Reviewed: 1/26/2006
If you like love and romance then set aside some time and read this story. Be prepared, though, for a huge cast of characters being mixed and jumbled around the two principals over a span of several years. It's to Frank's everlasting credit that the characters are each unique enough that the number of characters doesn't"
This indicates he was Frank before Don.
Thanks! After posting the question I remembered that an author had changed his on-line name to avoid problems after taking a job with more serious standards of behavior and hoped it wasn't DL.
With clues like these it was a sub millisecond recognition….
I don't know, would you have read it if it had a tag for Ice Dancing?
The posting yes… there are quite a few people here and it is always interesting to see what stories they bring up… I've found quite a few gems watching the posts here and paying forward on the questions that I can answer….
The story… definitely the first time I read it I was working thru the authors favorites list… and have read it at least twice…. It is a damm good story and wish Don would write a few more.
I wish he'd finish the ones he started -- Curse of the Bambino 2, Naked High, end especially Rewind, the do-over that's the first thing of his I ever read.
I seem to remember a note from him saying that he couldn't figure out where to go with 'Rewind', so unless he had a flish of inspiration it was going to stay unfinished.
I seem to remember a note from him saying that he couldn't figure out where to go with 'Rewind', so unless he had a flish of inspiration it was going to stay unfinished.
From his last blog post (Dec 223, 2019):
I have a number of short stories in the works, and, yes, I'm going to finish Rewind.
I seem to remember a note from him saying that he couldn't figure out where to go with 'Rewind', so unless he had a flish of inspiration it was going to stay unfinished.
As much as I liked the story when I read (and reread) it, Don should have finished it a few chapters earlier. At the very least it had a good ending point with graduation. So, I am not too upset with it being unfinished.
Graduation would have been an OK place to end it. But it wouldn't have felt complete. A do-over, which starts with the end of a (usually lousy) life and an extraordinary event, kinda needs to come back to one of them for closure. Sometimes that's showing how the new life will go, or fixing some great wrong, Often it's another interaction with the cause of the do-over.
As much as I liked the story when I read (and reread) it, Don should have finished it a few chapters earlier.
I might be wrong but I seem to remember hearing that the reason he ended it was one of the aspects of the story hit too close to his real life.
He wrote somewhere that the part of the story involving Beth Trovini was the reason he started writing in the first place - that part was real.
Agreed, BUT I believe he said he retired so he is not as protective of his real name.
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Retired or not outing someone's real name is a dick move.
Our late great writer er est had real life issues with his own government for his posting activities if I remember correctly.
So an author requesting that their real name not be used doesn't seem to be unreasonable. UNLESS they are planning some fucked shit and then I would hope laz is able to do something.
Listen! I was not deliberately outing anyone. It was hours later that I remembered that SOME author had changed his name for that reason and worried that I may have screwed up. I had no clue that it may have been him or not. His current name here sounds more like a real name and I had a vague recollection that his old name sounded more like a pen name. I was just trying to remember what it was.
An earlier post stated;
After posting the question I remembered that an author had changed his on-line name to avoid problems after taking a job with more serious standards of behavior
Even if you dislike the guy's stories, why blatantly "out" him?
Of course you could justify yourself by saying the info is elsewhere, sure it is, but it is also old, you just made it more accessible by your post.
More to the point, future authors who change jobs, marry, find god etc would be better off having their stories deleted rather than just changing their pen names.
Even if you dislike the guy's stories, why blatantly "out" him?
I have asked every time this comes up to remove the comment because back then Don asked to not disclose his other name. So far every one has removed it. Let's see if ystokes has the decency to do the same.
Even if you dislike the guy's stories, why blatantly "out" him?
First off I didn't know I was fucking outing him. From the time I hit reply to the time I hit post Sparky's post wasn't up nor does his post say it was Don that changed his name for that reason. Just that "an author" did it. So piss off.
Nor was I the only one that outed him. In 2016 someone else linked the two names and neither of you jump on him. So twice piss off.
Thank you for so gracefully correcting your error with such a wonderful display of erudite good manners.
In 2016 someone else linked the two names and neither of you jump on him.
I have called someone this before, but by PM rather than publicly.
I have called someone this before, but by PM rather than publicly.
It's the only way she can find joy.