Status Updates From The Secret Lives of Country...

Pretty sure I know where the macguffin is! It’s not structured fully as a mystery. We’ll find out if I’m clever or not.

You do have to work within the stakes of the era and I know academically that these are stakes and a problem but also I live in this era and can’t quite work up the emotional energy the scene is trying to convey.

I’m warming up to him now. Which actually works well as a characterization arc. It sets this “he was living a life that was breaking him” tone to it. As he gets his shit together and finds a hobby and makes familial connections and starts to form his own opinions instead of “supposed-tos”

The protagonist of this one is kind of hard to like. I’m curious to see where it goes but he’s insecure, wishy-washy, flies off the handle. He’s a decent person but in a spineless way. Like ehhhhhhhhhh. I’m still reading along and I’m interested is where it’s going to go. It’s just interesting to start with an MC like that.

Drama Drama Drama

So “tits” is fine but for other things we have to endure “prick” ???

Yuck, that is her first cousin