If you’re looking to read an excellent story, you might just want to read Boys’ School by Sarah Lynn Morgan.
http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/11243/boys-school-chap...
This is a story for those who love scintillating/realistic dialogue, compelling characters, and engaging plots.
As you may have noticed — I have a tendency to complain ad nauseam about votes, comments, and hits.
I have many times stated that certain genre are better received on BC. Boys’ School fits this “sweet spot” to a “t” — to carry a pun to an absurd level. This delightful and well-crafted tale is a nine-chapter serial. It involves a small teenage boy who has a sweet/sentimental adventure.
Proof that this is an excellent story is that Chapter One received just over 7,000 hits, while Chapter Nine has received over 5,000. That is an extraordinarily high ratio of those who started a serial compared to those who finished. When you take out the mis-hits and those who were reading the many, many comments -- that would indicate a completion ratio of nearly 100%.
My contentious remarks concerning BC’s “sweet spot” have never meant I don’t like those stories. Sue Brown’s soccer story (“football” to the confused) is another wonderful story that hit the BC sweet spot. Both of these would be in my top ten favorites of all time on BC along with stories by Randalynn, Heather Rose, Erin, Jenny Walker, Kristina, Vickie Tern, Laurie S, Rasufelle, Scott Ramsey and others. I like good stories. Sometimes a great story like Boys' School gets a terrific number of comments, while a wonderful story like Laurie Satori’s Like a Candle in the Wind garners much less attention. They’re equally delightful, but Laurie’s story doesn’t hit the sweet spot.
That doesn’t mean I think less of Sarah’s story or Laurie’s — it’s just how things are on BC.
Do yourself a favor and join the over 5,000 already-served, highly-satisfied customers who have enjoyed Boys’ School.
It’s said that Stan Musial wore out his bats by consistently hitting the sweet spot while on the way to a career .331 batting average (really good for those who think baseball is something less than the best sport ever invented). Let’s hope writers like Sarah Lynn keep hitting the BC sweet spot and turning out wonderful stories.
http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/11243/boys-school-chap...
Jill
Comments
I agree
As Angela said, this is a fun and enjoyable story. Even if you have already read it, it is worth another read. I know, I did.
As always,
Dru
As always,
Dru
Boy's School
is one of those stories that I just keep going back to - time after time. In fact, go to Sarah Lynn's page and read all her stories; 'Emily' gets my vote for one of the best stories ever.
Susie
Sarah does it better
While Boy's School is a delightful work I think the most engrossing and emotional tale she tells is in her stand alone piece, Samantha. Make sure the tissues are handy and abundant.
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Sarah Lynn Morgan Has
Several stories that deserve reading.
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I'm proud to say
That I am already part of the 5000 happy completed reads :P I loved the story when it was first published.
As for the BC sweet spot, I am one of the many readers who tend to prefer the sweet and sentimental, teenage-type stories. Perhaps it's because I'm not that long out of my teens myself, or because I was still a teenager when I first started reading TG fiction online, but happy, feel-good stories are my favorite type to both read and write. I agree, it is overrepresented here at BCTS, but since it's about the only type of story I tend to read, that's not a complaint for me!
And lastly, it really made my day to see my name in your list of authors, Jill. Thanks!
Melanie E.
One Of My Favourites
A truly lovely story. As one of the 5000 I recommend a read or a re-read,
Joanne
Everybody Likes Sarah Lynn
I would be hard-pressed to name my "favorite" Sarah Lynn story, I certainly wouldn't attempt to rank them. Perhaps I like them because they deal with issues readily identifiable by a non-TG. But I liked "Boy's School enough to download the parts and stitch them into one document that I could easily read on my cellphone no matter where I am.
They know they can survive
Yupper, Sarah Lynn's writing has always been top of the line.
Consistency of high praise and ratings earns her many new fans and makes her fans of yesterday more loyal still.
Just go to her author page and click on any of her stories and I know you'll enjoy whichever one you choose. Be warned though, once you start reading her stuff, you'll find yourself clicking on her other stories until you have read them all.
Huggles Sarah Lynn!
Angel
"Be Your-Self, So Easy to Say, So Hard to Live!"
"Be Your-Self, So Easy to Say, So Hard to Live!"
Sarah Lynn Morgan
Sarah is without doubt one of my top three favorite authors here, not so much because of just the story content, but the writing style. There's a certain flow that makes each story easy to get into and very, very hard to put down :-D
That said, I agree that hitting that 'sweet spot' is perfectly fine. Fictionmania's is one reason I stopped visiting there, but I won't get into that. I don't have anything against that sort of thing at all. It's just not something I enjoy.
Bottom line, write what'cha enjoy, read what'cha like, and heed the advice of The Great And Wise Angela and check out Sarah Lynn's author page. I guarantee you won't make it back out of there this week ;-)
~Zoe T.
PS: Thanks for reminding me I was going to look up an older story of Sarah's. I hope it's still hosted here!
Most definitely
This was a VERY fun story to read. There were questions in my mind, all the way to the end. And, like characters that became comfortable, I was left both satisfied and wishing there was more.
Thanks for the reminder on this story. I could only wish I wrote things as engaging. (Hey, if I could write a lot of them, I'd really be happy. LOL)
This is very rightfully recommended.
Annette
Thank you, Angela, and Everyone.
Thank you, Angela, very much. You always leave such nice and thoughtful comments on my stories. This was a surprise, and one that is very, very, much appreciated.
As for Everyone else, thanks to all of you too. So many kind comments, that I don’t know what I could possibly say. The few posts I've made here are after all just silly stories, daydreams really, but they are dear to me… as are each and every one of you.
Humbly yours,
Sarah Lynn Morgan
Why the double negative, Ms Rasch?
Surely it would have been better, more gramatical English to head your blog, “Everybody Likes Sarah Lynn’s Writing� After all, that is what you are, in effect saying.
An Old (retired) Hack
I believe I can answer that.
A while back, there was a series of commerical advertisements for Sarah Lee Cakes and Pastries. The ads always featured this:
"Everybody doesn't like something, but nobody doesn't like Sarah Lee." Jill's blog was meant as a complement, i.e. Everybody may not like something here, but "nobody doesn't like Sarah Lynn." Belle
which was a revision
...of an earlier jingle, "Not nobody likes none of that Sarah Lee- no way, no how, uh-uhn!"
the quintuple negative being an inadvertant non-endorsement of their product line.