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Through the years: Two against the world part 11
Me, if I was to find out who was hurting Tracy, that ******** would not like what would be done! Me, I would love to give that girl a way to live so that she, and her family/friends could live in peace.
May Your Light Forever Shine
i write it
And I also agree with you. These people need a swift kick or two There's times I have to remind myself I made these people and Tracy isn't being hurt.
I promise, at some point things will look up..... Maybe
Unclear
I've been reading this from the start and I'm unclear about this: "Tracy isn't being hurt". Do you mean that Tracy is a fictional character and thus there is no injury? That's kind of counter-productive, isn't it? In order to get and keep readers you need their buy-in. They have to take your protagonist in as a real person and care about them.
There is another way your comment can be interpreted, but I'm not gonna go there.
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” - Turkish Proverb
you are right
To keep it good I try to do two things make it tug at the heart and make it believable. But I have issues with violence and it drains me to get in the mind set to write it. Like a bad drain. But I am happy you all see Tracy as a good and believable girl
Find Your Balance
All authors have to find their own balance between empathizing with the mindset and feelings of their characters and keeping an emotional distance, especially to negative traits or harmful actions they might do to other characters. Go out of balance one way, your stories are unbelievable, non-authentic feeling, emotionally dead or just plain crappy. Go out of balance the other way, and it can screw up the author's head, drain his/her emotions or energy or psychic batteries or whatever, maybe give writer's block, etc.
Just find that balance and do what works for you. You've got a lot of fans who love this story (me included) so you definitely had that balance before your computer problems. Or as my mum, a lover of bad puns, would say, "You were on a roll, until you slipped on the butter!"
Lisa Danielle
that pun
Is so bad, I'll have to start using it
Thank you
I have squirmy wiggles happen in my stomach the longer it takes a story to come out with a new chapter, but squirmy wiggles or not, I always enjoy this story, and look forward to the next exiting installment of "Through the years". No soap holds me like this story, I hope and pray the brothers can be united in juvenile hall in the next installment, and Tracy can have perhaps a small victory, something that makes people like the church Nazis, think about their own intolerance. Sometimes when an innocent is harmed by the bad guys, the crowd comes at least a little bit to it's senses, I hate to have even a story character hurt, but it is a devise that works. Imagine Tracy publicly saving a church Nazis child from a beating or other violence perpetrated by these ignorant worms. Hey it could work!
Draflow
I'm not a doctor
But I play one on the internet. If your symptoms include the squirmy wiggled, perhaps a visit to a doctor is in order.
But really, I'm glad you enjoy it that much. Like I said elsewhere been working on a big plot idea and trying to make it work.
Poor Tracy
And Bruce and Clark keep on hurting people... Can't wait to see them both get what they deserve.
Thanks for continuing the story. I was starting to wonder... *grin*
As soon as Troy was told he can't come to Tai Chi class anymore, I thought of Brooke's grandparents...
I don't know how far you have the future of this story planned out, but it looks like it'll be a big struggle for them to stay in this town, with all the intolerant people there. Although I bet some of them could be turned when they know the facts. And there are already allies or at least sympathetic people, like Maggie's boss, and the principal at the school, and Deputy Kline. Looking forward to how the story develops, whether it was how you originally planned or not...
Lisa
Ignorance in town
Sounds to me like this town needs a visit from Jeannie C. Riley's momma, Mrs. Johnson.
Hugs,
Erica
Mrs Johnson
Ah, Harper Valley PTA. :) Good idea, if a bit obscure for the youngsters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Valley_PTA
And it didn't go so well with the "Church Ladies", exposing their own hypocrisy with not following the bible. But it may work in other instances in this town. But it's an idea to keep in mind.
Lisa
Thank you
I sat there yesterday thinking I knew those names and just could not place them, but it's my own fault for not looking it up.
now I got to see if I have that on my Itunes.
Hmm,
William's strategy kinda gives new meaning to "locker room tales". :)
As always, I look forward to the next thrilling chapter of your story. ^_^
...Although, I am somewhat concerned about Tracy's long term health, over certain factors which have yet to be addressed. Having no sex hormones is going to lead to premature menopause before too long, and the health problems that come with it. Will Tracy be able to get some estrogen soon?
soon,
remember, it's only been about two months, so soon.
Bruce's cousin & brother
Are going to wind up in a Deep pile of crap not as deep as Bruce but still Deep. Mail tampering (Useing the U.S. Mail to send threatining letters & pictures), but Bruce keeps digging him self deeper he will NEVER get out. The boy needs some SERIOUS phicolgical therpy & the councler isn't doing him a bit of good as Bruce won't let him.
I hope Tracy has a good weekend with her friends look foward to the next part of this story.
Love Samantha Renee Heart
Yeah. I'm trying to make
Yeah. I'm trying to make Bruce a hatable pile of stinky stuff. As long as people hate him job is done
i agree
poor tracy. will it ever end? keep up the good work.
robert
What should Tracy do?
Right now, not much, but I do think she should not move out of town as that would be letting Bruce...et al..win this game - and that is once thing Tracy does not need. Not now, not ever. She needs to stay in the town and school she is in until this is completely settled. It will be hard on her, but it is what needs to be done, IMHO.
Please let her remain where she is. She does have friends out of town she can visit on weekends and holidays, perhaps a day or two vacation here and there
Don't let someone else talk you out of your dreams. How can we have dreams come true, if we have no dreams?
Katrina Gayle "Stormy" Storm
One thing that has been nagging at me since this story began...
...is that in 1983, a transgender child discovered living as the opposite gender would likely have been snatched from her parents' home, and dumped into foster care, faster than the parents could open their mouths to protest.
I've been reading each installment, therefore, wondering when the ax was going to fall, so to speak, and the hypocritical church types try to make a case for "abuse and neglect" on the part of Tracy's parents.
Can't happen? But oh, dear friends, it can--is the name Aurora Lipscomb familiar to anyone? She was a six-year-old transgender girl (birth name Zachary) whose parents allowed her to present as female full-time. One complaint from a neighbor, however, led to the parents being investigated for "neglect" (of which Aurora's presenting as female was considered to be proof).
Aurora, meanwhile, was put into a foster home, run by a couple who were hostile toward little Aurora's gender presentation. They referred to her by her male name, and forbade her to wear girls' clothes. Sadly, I have no idea what has happened to the child since.
An example of the ignorance of a long-ago, intolerant time? Hardly--the incident happened in 2000, seventeen years after the timeframe of this story.
Therefore, that Tracy will be forcibly removed from her family seems to me to be inevitable. Tracy and her family will have no choice but to leave their home--and quickly.
Livin' A Ragtime Life,
Rachel
A turning point has been reached!!
The storm is still raging but I can see some glimmers of hope!
Maggies boss (a person of reason) dep. Kline and all her
Bayarea friends!! I also like her mothers decision that Tracy
is now full time, it was something that needed to happen!!
It will releave a lot of stress on her (been there, done that).
The more the bad people do the more likely for them to get
caught!! I mean we are talking teenagers not adults!!
As to Bruce he needs to be committed, he is unbalanced!!
He is a socialpath that is a danger to the public and
thus needs to kept away from the public!! Now that Tracy
has been forced to sever all her ties to Troy, she can begin
rebuilding her life as her true self!!
Hugs,
Pamela
"how many cares one loses when one decides not to be
something, but someone" Coco Chanel