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Mizal said I should post a teaser for my new story. Hopefully, I shall have it finished by the end of the week and launch it when I announce the December story contest.

Anyway, it'll likely find a home in the romance section, a story of love, growth and loss.

The first page, short and simple. Feel free to comment, critique or question, though there's not much to critique except that ungodly sentence. As I said, just a teaser.


Where did we go wrong?

As swirling snows and icy winters thaw into fresh green springs, which blossom and bloom into hot humid summers, heavy with the threat of sudden thunderstorms, that in turn fade into the countless colors of crisp cool autumns, I ask myself this question more and more.

I loved her. Three simple words. I still do.

But the Beatles lied. Love isn't all you need.

Sounds cool.

Sounds pretty gay, if you ask me.

The only way the beetles lied, is if you're a horrible person built on lies and shame. Author and character,

And dude, seriously, if the weather is that shit AND tempestuous all year around, just fucking move. Theres a lot of lattitude in the world, that dont require four different seasonal wardrobes.

Middle America is a right bitch, mate.

The Beetles were overrated and John Lennon was an asshole.

About damn time someone said it!

I still think that seasons sentence needs to be broken up, but good luck in finishing this. What you've told me about it so far sounds appropriately sweet and romantic, and the character has believable motivations. 

Not a favorite genre of mine, but I guess it's kind of like the School section and just needs lots of new blood.

I made some revisions to the plot, length and tone of parts of the story, which likely will push me back a week, maybe two. But I think these changes will help produce a better overall story.

Essentially, you play back through the narrator's memories and influence the nature of his life story. Where you wind up at the end of each memory segment will impact what kind of person he grows up to be, and thus give points toward one of four endings, based off how his childhood years shaped him.

So, it's similar in form to a Snowclone, except the memories are fleshed out and have relatively little to do with the RO who's inevitably going to die a horrible death. That's twist enough for me, I guess.

Was originally going to be a direct parody of Snow. I'm not sure how much of that it will be in the end, as the recent changes are taking it in a bit of a different direction.

Just have one path where he never had a girlfriend at all and he just walks around in the snow and dies of exposure.

FOREVER ALONE.

I'd totally play that.

8/8 Ending. 

Endeavour Ending

Oh... that was not very paragon of me.