Bleary, ✄ and ♡

✄: something i deleted before the final draft

I had this entire scene that happened in Central Park after the OUT interview…just sort of fluff showing them together and their dynamic in the aftermath of that really HUGE step that wasn’t public yet… I liked it, but in the end it felt indulgent and unnecessary.  It didn’t really show the reader anything new.  So I cut it and then posted it as this strange little outtake (A Walk Through the Park).  I also wrote a large part of the OUT interview, thinking that I’d post it as a chapter or an outtake or something, but then ended up just quoting from it in the chapter and focusing on the boy’s impressions.  It felt repetitive.

♡: my favorite part

Oh, god, I don’t know.  I like the first chapter… Chris trying to sort out what he can do and then leaping to do it.  But it’s sort of sad to think of that as my favorite part when I kept writing for another 9 months.   I like any dialog where you can feel how long they’ve been friends, like when they were drinking beer in the hotel room and Chris was trying to convince Zach that he should come stay with him for a bit, because he’s honestly having fun.  Oh, and Chris telling off those execs at lunch.  That was a blast to write.

It’d be easier to say which is my least favorite part, which is probably the conversation between Chris and Katie.  It was necessary, but it still feels a bit stilted to me.