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Originally Posted by cbell
To be honest, I'm looking forward to a sequel!
I hated the Ragoon (damn insects), but I didn't hate the book. I don't finish reading a book unless it's offering me something worthwhile and I finished reading this one over 2 nights.
Sam's Winnings is a very worthwhile read, but many of the bad deeds that happened went unpunished. Am I too much of a moralist?
Maybe a sequel can rectify all the outrageous things that happened in the first book.  |
Aloha,
I wrote an incredibly long reply which, when I tried to post it, got lost in the system. I've got to remember to write those kinds of replies in wordpad first and then save them. Oh well. A shorter version. Maybe this will make it through the system.
The idea was to take this theme and NOT turn it into a John Norman "Gor" series. Instead, show decent people responding to an indecent situation.
I'm not sure which bad deeds you are referring to. I did want to show that kids do stuff that they are later ashamed of, that they lie to their parents when they think that it's for a good reason, and that often they are basically little rascals. So a boy will peek in the girl's shower and the girls, although they are angry about that, don't rat him out. That's their culture. I don't defend it, but I'm not in denial about it. I want to write about kids for how they are, not how we wish they were.
I was a bus driver for a time for a middle school. I'm still stunned at the conversations that I overheard. (not willingly).
A lot of my stories will involve examining morality. As much as I would like to avoid that, my upbringing makes it impossible. I am who I am.
Wow this is getting long too.