First Five Pages of My Jackson Follow-Up

Okay, this is like a big deal for me.  I am posting the first five pages of the follow-up story to Last Words for you lucky readers/people who read this blog.  I may end up removing Last Words from Amazon, and posting it to some site, where you can read it in its entirety, since it's 20 pages long.


The thing to know about this story, aptly named  Moving On, is that it has chapters (believe me, I spent six hours revising and adding chapters where I felt appropriate last night), but they might not be more than five or six pages apiece.  The story after I revised it last night, equals out to 94 pages altogether.  It's the longest thing I have ever written, and it's also the second or third thing I have written entirely on the computer.  


The guy I went out with a couple of times, who had the luck of being the first person to read the first story read something I wrote many moons ago (and have subsequently lost), which he remarked was a lot like a movie.  And I guess that's kind of my writing style.  It's more visually like a film, just without actors.  


As usual, I accept comments.  I want feedback on it.  If it's widely well-received, I might just put it up on some site and allow people to read it all the way through.


Check it out after the cut.

Picking Up the Pieces (Tentative Title) Character Guide/List-Thing

Here's story guide (characters and all) for the follow-up story.

• Jackson Fiske-deceased ex-boyfriend of female protagonist whose name is undergoing a change.  He was 27 at the time of his death.
• Newly Unnamed Female Protagonist-26 years old, ex-girlfriend of Jackson Fiske.  Jackson’s been deceased since October 2008.  Now dating Jared Compton.  She works in a pre-school.
• Jared Schuyler Compton-28 years old.  His girlfriend and mother of his son was killed in an automobile accident.  His son, Jackson Schuyler Compton is five months old, as of late November 2009.  Jared is a high school English teacher.
• Kellan and Madelyn Forbes-friends of Jackson and UNFP.  Madelyn knows Jared through work, and set the two of them up.
• Ian Winters-a friend of Jared’s, who frequently watches baby Jack when Jared goes out.  Ian is engaged to Michelle Elias, who has the classroom next to Jared’s.
• Emma Wesley-Jackson’s mom, and Jared’s late girlfriend.  She was 24 when she died in September 2009.

A little bit of backstory (to whet your appetites):

Jared and UNFP have both seen tragedy.  Jared is still reeling from his, while UNFP is still in pain but to a lesser degree.  Against her wishes, her friends set her up with a dozen or so guys, none of whom work out.  Her friends decide to give up for awhile if the last date they set her up on doesn't work out.  This last date ends up being Jared, who UNFP has been given skim details about.

Suddenly, UNFP is happy again, and not thinking about her late boyfriend as much.  Can Jared and UNFP both get past their fears of loving another person, and finally find happiness at last?

Anyway, so that's the synopsis.

*Since the story was written, the UNFP has been named Autumn Kiley Vaughan.

Character Introduction

In 2009, I started a follow-up story to my short story, and I was going through my Ian Somerhalder phase, so he naturally became the model for Jared Compton.


In the process writing the story, I used a bazillion images of Ian Somerhalder as Damon Salvatore for inspiration.  For the other male characters, I had no set picture of them in my mind.  Well, except for Kellan; who is slightly like Kellan Lutz (but not completely).

You will see more about this story in the following posts.  I will create a tag so that they all connect together.