Ideas?

[kate_sherwood]

I'm hoping for a not-too-traumatic reason for someone with a six-ish year old son to not go to his planned family Xmas.

The family is close by, the person with the son was planning to go, but at the last minute was unable to. It's in California, so weather won't likey be a factor, and I want the person and his son to be free to travel to another Xmas celebration.

I'm wondering about Chicken Pox? Like, if the kids in the extended family all came down with it, maybe the dad wouldn't want to expose his six-year-old? But I've heard of some people so eager to get the pox over with that they deliberately expose their kids to it, so maybe the dad wouldn't stay away.

Any other ideas?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe someone else decides to attend last minute that the father doesn't want to encounter? Friend of a sibling who's been persistent about wanting to date him maybe?

[kate_sherwood]

Oooh... that might work!

Thanks!

[(Anonymous)]

Yay! And you're welcome, lol.

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry, just realised I posted it anonymously. How rude of me!
Aniko

[kate_sherwood]

Oh, hi! Good thing I was polite to the anonymous person!

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[(Anonymous)]

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[(Anonymous)]

Is it possible that the dad doesn't want to be exposed to chicken pox? It can be bad news for adults who didn't have it as children.

[kate_sherwood]

Ooh, that's a good idea, too! Thanks!

[(Anonymous)]

It would be so difficult for me to make a suggestion without knowing the character, but I do hope that you don't go with chicken pox or any other childhood communicable disease. First, there is a vaccine for chicken pox now, usually given well before age 6, so that might not be a good fit for your story. But more importantly, chicken pox can have serious sequelae--rare fortunately, but still real, so I hope people aren't still deliberately exposing their kids (or parents) to a preventable disease. Then of course, there is also the link to chicken pox and shingles in adults who have not either had the disease or the vaccine. Oh, and it can be disastrous should a pregnant woman contract chicken pox. [End dreary public service announcement.] I've just begun all of your Dark Horse books and stories, and I am such a fan, so I hope that I don't sound too prissy . . .

I do have a question, since I began reading things out of sequence, and I'm not entirely untangled yet. Is the Christmas story with all the boys published yet, or does it have a public title that I can watch for? I know that you have stated more than once that the boys are fine, but clearly lots of us readers are anxious to peek in on them. And oh gosh, if you'd ever even consider suggestions about Chris and where that could go, well, I bet lots of your readers have ideas there! You'll maybe at least concede that the development of the power dynamic of Chris and Ryan was just beginning?

I also found your post about writing m/m versus m/f characters and plots interesting, and I have a couple of thoughts about that. Don't suppose you'd ever check back in on that,or be interested in discussing it further?

At any rate, I'm looking forward to catching up with more of your writings, across both settings and genres, so thank you!

kait

[kate_sherwood]

The Christmas story isn't out yet - I think it's going to be called "One Bright Star" (unless I think of something less hokey) and I expect it'll be out... I don't know, maybe early to mid-November? Probably?

I agree that Chris and Ryan have a lot of exploring to do. I jumped forward in time a little for the Christmas story, so we don't see a lot of their early relationship... I got a bit muddled between the 'published' stories and the 'extras', with all the extras happening pretty soon after the end of the second published novel, but the third published novel a couple years later. And now the Christmas extra is coming well after the end of the third novel, so, yeah, Chris and Ryan have been together for a while. We do see them, but I kinda missed the building of their relationship. Damn.

And I'd love to discuss the m/f vs. m/m further. I find myself increasingly drawn to m/f, but I'm not sure why, or what the implications of that are, or... anything. I'd love to hear ideas, and I get an e-mail notification of any comments, so I'd absolutely go back and read things on that post.

Thanks for your support and your interest, and for taking the time to let me know about both!

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for answering my questions, and especially look forward to the Christmas story.

kait

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[(Anonymous)]

the hole thing about steaming your face and how oh its so bad thats bull crap i steam my face and i used to have such bad acne and then i srttaed stemming my face and its really helped me alot so if your gonna say its bad for you face then your damn stupid