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Post by Austin J. Blair on Oct 17, 2017 13:45:53 GMT -5
Greetings-
Have read all of the SS stories, and I appreciate what Ryan brought to the table, some of your best writing has come after that. I want to encourage
your efforts, and to that end, I would like your consideration of a plot line.
As a well past teen reader, I find that I am more than curious about Sasha & Bobbie's fathers. I am aware of your time-line structure, and would suggest
that you can keep your structure if you told their story as a flash-back within the framework of a story set in the current Sanitaria Spring universe.
I think this would appeal to a lot of us 'old fart' readers
Appreciate your thoughts
Regards
AJ
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Post by Dabeagle on Oct 18, 2017 11:12:07 GMT -5
AJ,
Thanks for the suggestion. I took a night to sleep on it. A lot of my contributions are about how people deal with situations, make decisions and the conversations that get them there. I think going backward would be a little problematic, frankly, because I'd forget things. There have been a few times, in fact, readers have caught a mistake that I made because there is so much backstory out there, now.
Were I to do the story you suggest it might be to bring us to where they are now with respect to Nikolai, perhaps differences between the children they raised and an older child who has a language barrier of a sorts and, likely, has some abandonment issues among other things - like being old enough to place more value on friends and their thoughts and interactions with them than on caregivers.
The tough part for me, I think, would be how much of my current life that would have me rely on. All three of my boys have issues, with the exception of language (and even then, English from an uneducated area to our home and school district can be a large gulf) and some of them would be the same thing they'd have to deal with. I'm not sure how much Nik would tell his fathers, how much he trusts or invests himself in them.
People might be inclined to think, from movies or TV perhaps, that older kids who are adopted react in a logical fashion: Oh, thank goodness. Now I have a family and I can be normal.' There may be some of that but I can say my experience has been different. Things like that take time to grow into, things like that haven't actually happened to us in so many words. Our oldest, who is doing very well compared to his previous issues, is still presenting with standard teenage bullshit which include not doing homework or not turning it in which amounts to the same thing, talking back to teachers, attempting to blow a snot on someone's notebook - hey, this is an age group that thinks passing gas is the height of comic genius. I think, for the most part, my characters are a little too mature for their age. They have a level of thought process and communication that their age group might have less of in general. Nik definitely wouldn't be there yet.
So, I'll think on it some more and if I can see something I can use or feel I can make a story length piece from, then I'll give it a go.
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Post by Austin J. Blair on Oct 18, 2017 13:07:24 GMT -5
Greetings again-
Consideration is all that I asked for.
I was thinking of a 'now and then' comparison scenario for Sasha and Alex, or Chase & Leafy. Just to hang a little flesh on the bones we have already been introduced to, without needing to add any new characters to a fairly deep cast.
Regards
AJ
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Post by Austin J. Blair on Feb 1, 2018 12:31:34 GMT -5
Greetings again-
Thanks for the further development of the 'papas' in Romanian Connection. That was close to what I was suggesting above.
Regards
AJ
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Post by Dabeagle on Feb 1, 2018 18:43:51 GMT -5
Greetings again- Thanks for the further development of the 'papas' in Romanian Connection. That was close to what I was suggesting above. Regards AJ Glad you were pleased! it's proof I do listen so it's always worth it to bring suggestions. |
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Post by Austin J. Blair on Jun 7, 2019 12:53:35 GMT -5
Thanks again for the further development of the senior Buchanans!
I just read "The Trouble..." and "Reunion".
I'd still like more history or background on the couple.
Keep up the good work!
Regards
AJ
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Post by Dabeagle on Jun 7, 2019 16:18:54 GMT -5
Thanks again for the further development of the senior Buchanans! I just read "The Trouble..." and "Reunion". I'd still like more history or background on the couple. Keep up the good work! Regards AJ If I went farther back, they might be kids themselves! I kid. Having established they lived as a couple in NYC, I'd be hard pressed as I just don't know enough about city life to make anything there believable.
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Post by PaulR5 on Jun 13, 2019 2:27:18 GMT -5
Don't forget the Sanitaria Springs short story, "Meet the Parents." When we meet the Wilson Parents and the Buchanan Parents of Tom and Kevin, on the same night when Alec is meeting them, sparks fly!
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Post by Austin J. Blair on Jun 15, 2019 12:04:45 GMT -5
Greetings Paul
"Meet the Parents" was the story that prompted my first request.
Regards AJ
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Post by Dabeagle on Jun 15, 2019 13:24:58 GMT -5
Greetings Paul
"Meet the Parents" was the story that prompted my first request.
Regards AJ
Keep them coming, AJ! One never knows! |
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Post by Mattyboy on Nov 1, 2021 13:32:05 GMT -5
I understand there's been a lot of water under the bridge and time flows on in SS.
Bbut I wish we'd had more from the "smart Alec" era at the HS. Or perhaps I've missed it, but the period between Meet the Parents, and the showdown at Walt's and the introduction of Lucien seems to be a blank spot.
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Post by PaulR5 on Nov 2, 2021 0:41:32 GMT -5
I understand there's been a lot of water under the bridge and time flows on in SS. Bbut I wish we'd had more from the "smart Alec" era at the HS. Or perhaps I've missed it, but the period between Meet the Parents, and the showdown at Walt's and the introduction of Lucien seems to be a blank spot. Well, IRL (In Real Life) sometimes there are blank spots -- or spots where things are less exciting. Many persons don't have exciting or dangerous or hilariously happy things happening all the time. But overall, I think many fascinating events have been covered in SS. Dabeagle and the other authors have done a great job. |
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Post by Mattyboy on Nov 2, 2021 21:53:43 GMT -5
Well, IRL (In Real Life) sometimes there are blank spots -- or spots where things are less exciting. Many persons don't have exciting or dangerous or hilariously happy things happening all the time. Indeed. But we are talking about Alec Kutsenko here. I didn't mean to imply in my wishing-for-more that what Dabeagle and the other authors have given us wasn't already an outstanding achievement. |
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Post by Dabeagle on Nov 3, 2021 22:17:33 GMT -5
Hi Matt, welcome to the conversation. The reason we don't see some of Alec's other potential adventures - besides what was listed and his attempts at matchmaking in 'Don't Ask Alec' is that he's very hard to keep up with. I have to be in that frame of mind and it's tough to get back into his head - especially since he's changed so much over the years. In some ways he's mellowed, but in others - like when he teases Reece - he's still in there.
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Post by jnwrx1 on Nov 9, 2021 0:42:38 GMT -5
If we really want to go back in time, I was kind of hoping to fill in the gaps of how Lucien and Austin got to under the best friends label?
We went from Austin's first appearance to besties with Lucien in birthday blues, with no narrative showing the development as to how the best friends quotient came into play between them.
Maybe an Alec story that shows his pranking bringing Austin and Lucien closer together (since Lucien was originally supposed to be Alec's best friend, but then he was his brother, so Alec might have tried to find him a new best friend to fill in).
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