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Featured Story of the month for April - On The Rails

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mare:
As you all know, I love this story and that's saying something because normally I stay away from AUs, stories that only feature one of the guys and historical novels. This happens to fit in all three avoidance categories lol It's so well written and the plot is so unique, I couldn't help but fall in love with it. The only flaw it has is that it's not finished. I'm hoping maybe that will be remedied sometime in the near future.

I still highly recommend checking this one out, you won't be disappointed.

Here is the link: http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=9453

Enjoy! :)

Chrissy:
Wow!  When I first saw Mare's post on twitter, I kind of thought this was an April Fool's Joke ;)  I'm really honored to have my story featured for the month and to see it so highly praised!  Thanks everyone for your support, encouragement, and reviews.  To my readers, I know I haven't updated in a while, but fear not--I do have the story plotted out all the way to the end.  It's just a matter of finding time and inspiration to write it all down.

mare:
Aww, i'd never joke about this lol

Here is a questionaire. Fill it out when you have the time, also another question for you. Where did you get this idea from?

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   

Carter-Orange:
I've just spent the past couple of hours reading this story and love it!  I've been meaning to read it for a long time but I think the thing which put me off was the fact that it hadn't been updated in such a long time.

So I'd like to know if you have any plans to update in the near future as I need to know how things turn out :)

Also well done on being story of the month :)

Chrissy:
I'm not done answering all the questions, and some are a bit more difficult to answer than others, so here's what I have so far:

2) How long did it take you to write this entire story?
As you probably know, "On the Rails" isn't finished yet, but I first started writing it about 8 years ago.  (Wow! I didn't even realize it had been that long until just now.)  In high school, my American History professor showed a truly riveting PBS documentary on the Great Depression and the teenagers who lived on the road, hitching rides across the country on the catwalks of railroad trains.  I immediately got the idea for this story and have been writing it on and off ever since.

5) Have you ever thought of giving up on the story and if you did what made you continue to work on it?
Oh definitely.  Back in high school I hit a huge road block where I wrote myself into a corner that I couldn't get out of, so I gave up on OTR.  Later, I started another story "On Nightingale Hill" as part of NaNoWriMo 2006(?) and was occupied by that until my hard drive crashed and I lost all the files.  When that happened, I found myself wanting a creative outlet so I picked up "On the Rails" and started writing again.  I addressed the problems that I had with my earlier draft, and now I'm pretty excited to continue the story! :D

6) What was your writing process? (Outline, make it up as you go along, the characters wrote it, I am Tonja and plagerized lol)
I have an overall outline in my head of certain events that are supposed to happen during the course of the year that the characters are together.  In general, each chapter takes place during a specific month.  First I outline the main things I would like to happen during that month, and then I stop writing and just allow myself to daydream and picture the story taking place in my head.  The scenes that I can imagine vividly are usually the easiest to put down in word; then it's only a matter of writing in the gaps between the vivid parts so that the story will transition smoothly from one rich montage to the next.  This, of course, is easier said than done and it's why my updates tend to take so long.

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