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Featured Story for the month of August 2009 - Someone's Miracle

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mare:
Happy August and last month of summer!  :-[


This month we will be discussing Someone's Miracle by Kentuckychickr k. This one seems to be a favorite of many of you so I hope you guys come in and ask our Kentucky chick some questions about her story and give her some feedback.

This is the link to the story: http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=9135

:) Enjoy!!

mare:
1) Tell us one thing about your story that no one else knows?

2) How long did it take you to write this entire story?

3) Give us a summary different from the one you have posted on AC, with a few more spoilers to make people tune in.

4) If you could cast this story as a movie who would play the main roles and why?

5) Have you ever thought of giving up on the story and if you did what made you continue to work on it?

6) What was your writing process? (Outline, make it up as you go along, the characters wrote it, I am Tonja and plagerized lol)

7) Who was your favorite character in this story and why?

8 ) You had to know this was coming, who was your least favorite?

9) Are all the boys in this one? If not why did you choose to exclude them?

10) If we like this story...then we'd love what story? (Could be by you or someone else) and obviously tell us why lol 

Kentuckychickrk:
Aw, thanks everyone!!  I'm so proud of this story so I'm glad to know that it's well received  :)

To answer Mare's survey questions --

1) Tell us one thing about your story that no one else knows.
    This story was inspired by a class I took during college on death and grief for my major.  The class was depressing at times, but it was also incredibly heartwarming.  Our teacher asked several indiviudals to come speak and one of those individuals was the mother of an 18-year-old boy who died in a horrible accident.  She talked about the decision to donate his organs and how it has become her life to spread the word on organ donation.  She herself even ended up donating a kidney to a member of her church.

2) About 3 months... but I thought the story out for a while before I started writing it so all told probably 5-6 months.

3) While one young man waits for a miracle, a father makes the most painful decision of his life.  What would you do if your biggest loss could be someone else's miracle?  A life lost... A life saved.  Will she become someone's miracle?

4) Hm... that's a tough one...  Obviously the guys and Aaron would play themselves.  I think someone like Christopher Meloni (Law & Order) would make a good Mark Grant and Lauren could be played by any young girl with green eyes and long hair.

5) This was one story that I actually never debated quitting.  I wanted to see it through.  I did have moments where I struggled with what would happen next or if I would make it a long, drawn out tale... but I like it as is, short and sweet.  I think adding more would have taken away from what I wanted to portray.

6) lol at the Tonja thing!  I outlined parts and others I just made up as I went along. 

7) My favorite character in the story and the one I feel I focused on most was Mark Grant and his journey in letting go.  He's the "main" character of the story I would say and I really wanted to show his relationship with Lauren and how that made it both more difficult and also less difficult to make such a gutwrenching decision.

8) hm... really no one.  I'm not sure Aaron and Nick's sisters were really necessary characters, but I wanted to add a little bit of humor to an otherwise pretty depressing story, so I popped them in there.

9) All but Kevin... and he's just not there because he's no longer in the band.  I'm sure he would have been there otherwise  ;)

10)  Hmm...  I think anyone who likes this story would also like stories like the Swollen Issues series by Carrie or the Broken series by Julie (RokofAges75)

honey:
Aww, Yay! I'm glad this one got picked! It's one of my all-time favorite AC stories! Congrats hun, you totally deserve it.

Kentuckychickrk:

--- Quote from: honey on August 01, 2009, 03:03:19 PM ---Aww, Yay! I'm glad this one got picked! It's one of my all-time favorite AC stories! Congrats hun, you totally deserve it.

--- End quote ---

Thank you so much Kelly!  I'm glad you enjoyed this story, it was definitely one of my favorites to write!  :)

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