VIEWPOINTS EPILOGUE
Thank you for staying with the story of John/Laura and her traumas.
I have written about PTSD, and survivor guilt, things that will live and fester forever in my soul, but this time wanted to try and write both a mystery and an exploration of how a soul can be destroyed by cruelty and selfishness. I wanted to try and get under the skin of an obsessed, broken person, and let them find redemption through the things we all hope for: family, friends, love.
I hope I have succeeded here, it has been an awfully distressing tale to write. There were times when I was consumed by the story, others when the nature of what I was attempting to bring to life almost made me ill.
The story continues, obviously, but now that Laura's pain has been laid bare on the page, along with that of Lucinda and Dad Pete, I feel that the nature of the story that is left to tell is fundamentally dfferent.
If people want to know what happened next, and can't work it out, I wll try to do it justice, but the nature of the story will be so, so different.
I need to breathe for a while. Too many demons.
Comments
You certainly have succeeded ...
... in telling the story of Laura, John, Lucy and the two Peters, father and son - five people but only four bodies. Personally I think this is where it should end. Too many stories go on long after they should in my opinion and lose something as a result. It would be sad if that happened here.
Thank you so much for your efforts.
Robi
Carrying on
Well, there will be no surprises that I have dipped my toe into a completion. Robi is absolutely right, that is where the storynaturally ends. There is another story, a continuation, which I am working on, but it will be held until I think it is ready.
I vote yes!.
I would like to see it continue. I can certainly understand a need to "step-away" for a while, as this has been very emotionally charged and stressful. For those very reasons though, I think it is important to eventually come back to this story. Several of us have become very, um, "involved" (for lack of a better word) with your characters. We've followed along as we've seen the characters go through a slice of hell, and it would be very interesting to see them come out the other side. Pete's "tin leg", the consequences of Laura's increasing (maybe?) presence in John's (and Pete's) life, Dad Pete and Mom's relationship...all of this calls for a sequel.
But take your time. I can see where this may have been like something dragged out of you. It was probably much more painful to write than it was to read! Take some time, let your characters tell you where they want this to go. Let your emotions recover, maybe write something else for a while, but please, come back to this eventually! I know thast I, at least, have come to care for these characters, and I'd like to see how they handle "ahem" "Real" life. I know it won't all be happy, but still...
Thank you for this journey. I'm not saying I want to go all the way to it's end, but at the very least, let us go along to a better part of it.
Wren
Demons Indeed!
I have lived, loved and cried through every twist of this tale, and add my request that you proceed as you are able.
Ooops! I missed this.
Hi Steph.
I missed this initially but I'm really glad I found it. Been away up Yr Wyddfa for a few days. (Bloody windy! 100 Kt winds at the summit.)
I wasn't killing demons but my wife wanted to go up and of course the train wasn't running all the way because of the wind. (Would you believe she's never walked on the summit!!!) Well we made it by a very circuitous route because of the wind and it took us 6 hours. So an important milestone in my wife's life was passed and she's ecstatic that she did it in wild conditions, especially as she's sixty one. It brought so close as we clung onto each other. Not cold but very windy and horrendous changes in visibility. A couple of times we had to stop for the mists to be torn to shreds by the wind. We left at eight o'clock and arrived back at the train station having walked both ways in ten hours. 6 up 4 down. The best part was a comfortable bed that night and I was so tired I didn't even look at my puter. Hence I missed Viewpoints 19 epilogue.
The most amazing thing for her was my descriptions of my crazy adventures up there as a young man searching for everything. I showed her the youth hostel where I was turned away and sworn at by the warden,
From a distance, I showed her Adam and Eve on Tryfan where I leapt from one to the other pretending to be boy-girl-boy-girl until a ranger saw me and ordered me down. (Yes! I was off my trollie!)
So all in all a wonderful weekend and then the pleasure of Viewpoints 19 to come home to.
Thanks for the story.
Beverly.
Llanberis path
Would you believe I have never walked that route? Pyg, Rhyd Ddu, Watkin, Gribin, Miners', Horseshoe, Ranger, but never that one!
The Llanberis Path.
You're right.
The Llanberis path is one of the longest but the easist. The reason we took that path of course is because we only found out the train wasn't running all the way when we arrived and Helen wasn't up to any of the strenuous paths. (She is 61 by the way, I'm 64.) Basically we followed the railway some of the way until we came to the ridge where the wind was too dangerous. Then we literally ducked and scurried from rock to rock and gulley to gulley
Still, she's done it now and laid one ambiiton to rest.
We'll probably never climb those mountains again. I'll miss them. So much world, so little time. My ambition is to visit as many places as I can that I visited as a seaman but never got to properly see. Sadly many of those places are remote and very expensive to get to like the Kamchatka Peninsular in Russia, The land of Ice and fire. I don't suppose I'll ever see there again.
Love the story.
Bev.