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kate_sherwood) wrote2012-09-02 10:24 am
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Ideas?
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?
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?
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Thanks!
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(Anonymous) 2012-09-03 03:19 am (UTC)(link)Aniko
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(Anonymous) 2012-09-18 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)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
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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!
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(Anonymous) 2012-09-22 10:34 am (UTC)(link)kait
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