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Taking Chances, by E. L. Van Hine and L.H. Nicoll
MadLori:
Hi everyone...okay, I haven't been around this thread, but I saw an update and I'm totally confused.
Who the heck is Colson? Seems Louise is rewriting the Saga to be original and not fanfic, removing the BBM connection? Am i right?
Is the original Saga ever coming back? Because I've started re-reading it and I'm jonesing for the post-Taking Chances installments and they're nowhere to be found.
Louise also unfriended me. :-( I don't know why.
mariez:
Hey, Ranchgal!
Thanks again for your comments - I'm a little alarmed, though :-\ - I didn't intend for my thoughts to make you view the story or Colson in a more negative light! That's not my view point at all.
Just to clarify a couple things - I think that Colson may be a slightly darker character (and maybe darker isn't exactly the word I would choose, but I'll got with it for now :) - but I certainly do not view him as "much" darker. I also do not believe that being kicked out of high school automatically makes someone a loser - we haven't been told any of the particulars of that event so it would be way to early for me to jump to that conclusion or make that assumption. Human beings have a great capacity for growth and change - especially from our volatile teen-age years. I also don't have enough information to totally judge his flashbacks about Adam yet, either. Speaking objectively here - as much as I love the original character - and I do - it can't be denied that he was also a complex person with violent tendencies. All the major characters in the original story are flawed and scarred - but just trying to do their best. And that's how I see Colson right now - as a person full of regret and confusion - but an honorable person - one who tries to do the right thing - but may sometimes fail. One of the many things I love about Louise's writing is that she never shies away from the tough stuff - she always keeps it real - and I don't doubt that is one thing that won't change! I don't know that you have to completely "abandon" anything - maybe just keep an open mind and see where the new developments take us! :)
Thanks again,
Marie
ranchgal:
Thanks Marie, guess that is good advice, to keep a more open mind---and remember to READ it more carefully and not take passages you think you know for granted. LOL ;D
MadLori-yes, you got it---on page 614 reply 1866 Louise posts about revamping the LS into totally original work-and eliminating any characters/situations/places from the BBM/LS stories. everything in her stories now will be completely hers.
She also posted on the Laramie Saga thread, page 125 reply 1866 that she was locking her journal till the story got reworked and they were ready to start over again.
Hope your vacation was good!
louisev:
Oh.... wow.
I am amazed at the intensive discussion surrounding the additions to the story - I don't think you folks missed a period or a comma!
I do wish to reassure you, however, as I get back into the swing of having full time internet and taking my mind off my foot and my old job and back into the swing of writing, editing, and revamping 'Taking Chances...' there will be more back story, and I do not have all of the answers to your questions, Ranchgal, nor all of the clarifications that you were seeking, Marie, but I can tell you there are many areas which were only lightly sketched, for example Colson's educational background and professional aspirations, and the entire relationship with Adam and the 'type of man' comment and his regrets about the roughness between them. The back story should help bring out clarifications to this and it thrills me endlessly that there is new interest in the tale a year after I wrote it!
And Leslie is making me lunch so I can get with the program now!
ranchgal:
Food is always GOOD!! Thanks for the update.
;D :D
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