I am in the long, entertaining process of writing a novel, and I just wanted to know, from what I put, if it sounds good, bad, or in between. If you have a comment please tell me.
Here it goes:
As planned, I choked once I did see him. The pretty brunette at the front of the room had taken no time to register me into a desk. It’s really, honestly too bad that I had been seated in front of him, definitely. I wasn’t quite sure of why. In my eyes, it was between the fact that I had actually been forced to be near him, and the revulsion I felt because I couldn’t see his face. Either way, I knew we would have to meet, somehow.
Hearing the frantic beat of my own heart is what startled me.
It was not something I could erase-the feeling I got in my stomach when I felt his warm breath over my shoulder. Even though I knew I was already trapped, spoken for, I still wanted my heart to listen to me. This attraction to him was subtle, not a situation I would have ever placed myself in. I could change that, defy destiny. If this was destiny.
So I ignored it. I flung the idea out of my brain and ordered it to never come back. The natural sentiment, however, remained unscathed.
Suddenly, a tingle of warmth touched my shoulder. At first, I was sure he had poked me, but when I turned to reject it, his face stayed steady below, on the sheet of paper he had been scribbling on, and his back was glued to the rear of the chair. Result: nowhere within reach of me.
I could have forgotten, how quickly he seemed to look up, but it would have certainly returned.
“Hello.” His lovely lips moved in a chain reaction. I flinched, bewildered.
It took me almost a quarter of a second before I could even make up a response. “Hi.” One magic word was all I needed to say; nothing fancy.
I’d thought I’d seen it all: the astounding good looks, the silver eyes. But the grin that now played on his lips, was all I needed-wanted- to stop time. It was sideways, crooked, but hopelessly remarkable. There could only be one word for a smile like that: irresistible.
He sat up, and gleefully held out his hand. “I’m Michael Chast,” His voice was almost as enthralling. “And you are?”
Oh, my turn to speak. Wait. I couldn’t remember my name. What was it? “Jaycee Swallows.” Relief.
The smiled hadn’t yet calmed down. “Well, Jaycee Swallows, I would love to show you around, if you’re alright with that?”
Here it goes again. I couldn’t think. I couldn’t talk. What was wrong with me? “Great. That would be great.” No, I didn’t mean to say that.
“Can I see your schedule?”
Word vomit. “Yeah, no problem.” No. No.
Please tell me what you think, and how I can improve, thanks!
Actually, she didnt think he touched her because she was nervous.
To find out what happened, you’ll have to read the whole book, if it ever gets published. :)
Wish me good luck!


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i’ve been asking for weeks, now i feel like i’m being held at bay. my wife and i separated about 3 1/2 months ago. at her insistence. she called me out on alcohol use/abuse. she was correct about that. but i’ve been 100 % sober since then, attending AA and individual counseling. there were other, extenuating circumstances. here’s the problem: we have spent a ton of time together since the separation. good time, fun, more fun than we had when we lived together. she has had what she calls "walls" up against me for awhile. i just see the time we have together as "second chance" time. i want this marriage, i feel like she does too. i saw a copy of "the love dare" book on her desk on the way out of her apt. night before last so i suspect she’s having some thoughts about saving the marriage. i hope so.

what is my next move? continue to work at building trust? make our time together enjoyable? what?

i know "ask her" will come up. i know that she will feel like her feelings are being challenged if i do that, so i’ve avoided that. what do you think i should do?


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My husband is turning into a bit of a flake and I’m not sure how to deal with it.?

My husband is 39, I am 36. We are grown adults. He is a police officer that has been removed from duty awaiting a hearing (I won’t get into the details, but he is innocent, he just needs to go through the process of clearance.). He does however have the option to ride a desk until the hearing date at which time he could return to patrol. The hearing date has been cancelled twice and he has been off duty now for over a year. The case just isn’t big enough to take priority in the court system. No date is booked yet again for the hearing. It’s all up in the air.

The stress of awaiting trial and the possibility of riding a desk has been bothering him a great deal lately and he hasn’t been able to sleep at night, so he plays on line from bed with his ipod and wastes the night away, and then sleeps all day (he has not chosen to ride a desk at this point as he fears he will get harassed by colleagues based on his experience at the desk before he was ordered home with pay because it was a toxic environment). He talks my ear off when I am trying to get to sleep and he doesn’t realize that I cannot just stay in bed during the day if I don’t get enough sleep. I have to go to work. I love him to death, but it’s getting too much.

Yesterday he asked if I wanted to meet for coffee during the day and asked what time. I said no later than 3:30. He then texted me and said he couldn’t make 3:30 – that he was running late. What the hell had he been doing since I left the house at 8am?! Um…my guess is sleeping. The man has ALL the time in the world and he can’t get somewhere on time.
He keeps telling me he won’t play on line when trying to sleep and that he’ll get up a the same time as me in the morning to get into a routine, but it never happens.

He’s all talk. I don’t’ know what to do. I’ve tried to talk to him about it, but he throws it back at me saying that if he wasn’t talking to me and preventing me from sleeping, I would still be up late watching TV or something. He just doesn’t get it.

Help!!!

The spark has definitely NOT gone from the relationship. We do lots together when I am not working, but I do work. Someone has to bring home the dough! He IS in counselling. He IS depressed. I am doing everything I can for him, but he also has to fricking do something for himself.

I can’t be his mother….


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So, I don’t want you to think I’m making excuses but I do KNOW that my husband’s mother raised him to be a slob. She never held him accountable or made him clean his room. She tells me stories about how bad it used to be and laughs and says "good luck!" I have tried pretty much everything I can think of. I just let it get so terrible sometimes because I’m the only one who will ever do anything about it. I spend my time cleaning it and then he just makes a big mess again. I mean…leaving his clothes on the floor. Piles of soda cans on his desk and then when that’s full it goes to the floor. Stains on the carpet because if he spills he doesn’t clean it up, stains on the couch, pieces of food on the floor if he drops some. I mean…I love him and he’s not a fat slob he’s actually very good looking lol but he is SO messy and lazy. What in God’s name do I do?! I’ve told him it depresses me to see the house like this…that is hurts my feelings he doesn’t help me…and he says he’ll help and does it once and then goes back to his old ways. Don’t tell me to hold out on sex. That’s stupid and I won’t. Give me some other help than that please. Thank you.

Oh and his excuse is that he works all week and I just go to school so I have more time than him but it’s bull shit. That’s the number one reason. He thinks I don’t do as much because school isn’t a job and I can’t convince him that it takes up just as much time as a full time job PLUS I work 2 days a week.


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well, okay, i broke up with him on like jul 27 because, while i was sleeping one night, my cousin was i guess doing something at my desk and found my now ex boyfriend’s number…so she decided to call, i don’t know exactly what she wanted to do, i guess she talked to him for a second, then she like asked him if he had a girlfriend and he said no, she said she casually repeated it, and he said no again, then he left because she said he said he was tired and to call later, she didn’t say that she was my cousin, i guess she called blocked?….
well, now like he called my friend and was like ill be at his brothers house(apartments), (he lives in west sac, i live in north sac) and my friend told me when i called her that he wanted to see me on saturday (aug 9) but i wasn’t home, i was at my grandmas all week, and on sat i had a baby shower to go to…so yeah there’s some of the stuff…..well
i kinda want him back…like should i?? and if i get back with him…should i talk to him about what he said to my cousin…i never talked to him about it…the next day my cousin told me i broke up with him….but when i broke up with him he just said ok…and didn’t ask why?….so like should i go back out with him…and if i do, what should i do? er what ever, i mean just give me advice…or something…


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