Was: Laramie Tales: New Working Title: Tales of Greenlea County (ARCHIVE)

[mariez]

eh  me too    and can't wait for more!  Hello BTW

Pauline

Hi Pauline - nice to meet you and it's great to have you here! 

biscuits? cake? fried chicken? 

Ha!  Yep, our boy Ellery still has some weight to gain! 

Marie

[louisev]

SPOILER



yes he does, and when this drama with the A.D.A. passes by someone's going to be nagging him about doing his meditation and his exercise!  But Colson is still adding things to the meals to get Ellery's calorie intake up!

[louisev]

Okay folks, I edited and posted another 10 chapters of "Looking for Answers" last night, which continues to inspire my current efforts as well, and there is quite a bit of reader interest, which is really exciting for me, and gives me a motivation to continue.

[xxp]

I kind of forgot, but maybe I first read about the Laramie Tales either from the Wranglers community or the DC BBM forum back in December 2006. I remembered it was a little hard for me to read about Ennis's moving on with another person for a couple of days. But after I finally started reading the stories, god, I just couldn't stop and thankfully there were so many parts of the stories for me to catch up. I was and still am grateful for you and your stories because they helped me through the down times. Can't wait for your wonderful works in publish too!

[louisev]

Hi again xxp:

thank you for joining the forum.  If you have already read the first six books you might be interested in reading the more recent work on my livejournal which takes place a few months after the six-book series.  I will post the links here if you need them but my livejournal is:

louisev.livejournal.com


The Chesterfield Fortune:  http://louisev.livejournal.com/216339.html#cutid1  full length novel
Dem Bones: http://louisev.livejournal.com/234856.html#cutid1   short story
The Rookie:  http://louisev.livejournal.com/236331.html#cutid1  full length novel

The Rookie is being discussed and announcements of new chapters appear on the thread devoted to it here in the Creative Writing forum:

http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,15567.0.html

[louisev]

Ten more chapters, folks.

Also, for anyone who was reading chapters 68 and up in the past day, I missed posting chapter 69, so all of the subsequent pages have been renumbered to stick 69 in there.  It's a good chapter, go read it!!

[mariez]

A little something I found in the archive.  From Chapter 73 of Looking for Answers entitled "Roses" (with a big thank you to Leslie!)

[louisev]

awww thanks Marie!

That is Ellery's love-scrawl!

[frantic65]

Hey Louise...I just had to let you know that LFA still packs a very powerful punch. I was just going to skim through my favorite smex..um..parts & I got caught right back up in the whole drama once again. It was a very welcome diversion this week.

Are you planning on editing the rest of the Laramie Saga?? Some of that will be pretty challenging I'm sure. Anyway, thanks for taking me to a happier place this week! 

Fran

[louisev]

yes I am planning to do convert the rest of the books.  In fact, I may just continue on.

I did want to ask a favor of you faithful rereaders, and that is, I stopped at chapter 93 last night, and wanted to know if that felt like a good stopping point for the book.

There are 10,000 more words in the remaining chapters of the original book as I wrote it, including the opening of the Steele trial and the vacation, which I need to rework for place.  This section deals with the news that Justin Worrell has AIDS.  Since this book, too, is overlong (stopping at chapter 93 makes the book 135,000 words, only about 30% too big!!) I decided to defer this 10,000 word portion to the next book.  Looking for Answers has to go through the plot changes that I put into Taking Chances, mainly regarding Adam's background and life and some details about his encounter with Justin Worrell, so I am going to take it through another edit.  Perhaps I should have done that on the first cut but I just didn't feel like I had it clear in my mind as yet to do that, and wanted to get the book edited into the Greenlea universe first before I began to change major details regarding Adam's background.

"A Second Chance" may prove an easier cut since it begins to deal more with Colson's life (rather than Adam's), as well as Ellery's background and the reappearance of a lover from the past, and there is less rework there as we diverge more and more from the fanfiction origins of the series.

So - to summarize:

I will be working on putting a Greenlea version of "A Second Chance" up on the TCReader site, and

If anyone who wishes to can tell me how they feel about the stopping point I made in "Looking for Answers"?

Another note regarding "Looking for Answers" is that I may edit out some of the more detailed and explicit scenes from it in anticipation of publication, in part to make it more "saleable" - but for the moment have deferred that, because for all we know, it may be just those segments that may make the story more of a draw.  It isn't that I am not pleased with them, but that Leslie and I both think that this series is ahead of the curve in terms of market, and that getting it to press might require scaling back the sexual content for that market.