Chapter 8 is finished.

[tocryabout]

The long-awaited Chapter 8, Snakes and Ladders, is done. Don't blame me, blame capitalism and Tim Horton (God rest his soul).

Words OpenOffice didn't know:
hypomanic
schoolbuses
tabarnaq
tahini

[Read from the beginning]

Yeah, it ends on a lame little cliffhanger. Not even worth mentioning, except that I usually have more closure at the ends of chapters than that.

Comments

Re: You have to be civil in your disobedience

[to-cry-about.livejournal.com]

Yay for Prawn winning people over, despite his being a prat.

I felt that was sort of a cliche, the OMG WALKING IN ON THE GAY KISS, but the two had to do it in the kitchen, because everything happens in the kitchen in a place like that, and they were expecting Prawn to take longer. And anyway, sometimes it's just fun and Coronation Street-ish to walk in on GAY KISSING.

That kiss had me pretty conflicted. Joel's sex issues are really tangled and I'm not even sure I should detail why, because I feel like it would confuse the issue more, like a red herring. Paul, on the other hand, is not particularly repressed and he's been waiting for five years, so I felt like it was time he did something.

Re: You have to be civil in your disobedience

[to-cry-about.livejournal.com]

oh noes I wrote a gay male character who loves opera and clothes and has rainbow skin! :(((( I am the stereotype queen!

Meanwhile the other one is all about emotional intimacy over eros, so he's practically a girl. Woe!

I don't know.

[to-cry-about.livejournal.com]

I actually don't. Joel is still in vocation mode, so he has good reason to not get involved. BESIDES the homosexuality issue. Paul won't quit now that he's had a victory. So it's Joel's self-control vs Paul's ridiculous lovelornness.