A Love So Bold
by Anon Allsop
I am so thankful that I have finally gone back through the edit's and FINISHED with A Love So Bold. It is amazing to me that my editor JP has read through my book not once...not twice, but three times. I myself have probably been through it at least six times since I have written it. It is officially done and I am slowly posting it here online. Each time I post it, I re-read it again just to be certain that it is flowing smoothly. This story is a true labor of love and has gobbled up much of my free time.
Many here would probably agree that unless you write, a person can't really fathom how much of an author's soul goes into a story...how much it becomes an extension of yourself. This story was that way with me. I'm just happy and thankful that it has turned out as well as it did. I appreciate everyone who has read and commented on it, hopefully you will continue and enjoy it to the end. If anything, I hope it helps people forget about their daily troubles if for only a little while.
Someday, I will post it in its entirety...don't know where just yet. Like many who have commented and emailed me, they hate having only a few chapters go up at a time. It's just too large to post here - 212 pages - over 100,000 words...splitting it only makes sense. Hope you all enjoy it!
I hope all of you have a great Thanksgiving and Holiday Season this year!
Take care, have a great week!
Anon
Comments
Thank you for sharing
i have been enjoying the story immensely. It is one of the things I look forward to the most each week.
For the record, 100,000 words would not be the largest single posting here; Morpheus's recent non-serial stories tend to clock in at around that range and his largest posting here, The Changeling Chronicles, is over 195,000 (although it was serialized elsewhere before being posted here in its entirety). That said, BCTS allows for viewing all chapters in a book as a single page if you select the printer friendly version of the master book entry.
The story's title is
The story's title is especially fitting for all of the work you put into it- for you it really was a love so bold!
The great thing about posting in parts is you got us hooked and pondering what was going to happen next, even if it brought a lot of bad guesses and wrong assumptions it was great to speculate where you might be going and what might happen. It's right out of the past, how authors used to do this back in that time frame so it's only fitting that a story set in that era is brought out that same way!
Congratulations on completing the story and finishing the editing, you deserve a big break :)
I'm told STFU more times in a day than most people get told in a lifetime
I have so enjoyed this
I love history, Oregon Trail history, camping, and traveling. I would not understand the enormity of the journey if I had not been living as a woman. There are so many issues that women have that make this sort of traveling hard; most of all the hygiene which is not just nice but a survival necessity. Then to try to nurse an infant in such conditions. I can easily remember living as a man, though I never was one actually, several days without bathing was no big deal, for a woman it becomes life threatening.
If you ever publish this work in "dead tree" or kindle, I will buy it.
Thank you
Gwen
Having finished and posted
Having finished and posted two long stories, I think around 100,000 words, the summer before last, (one a bit later) after having begun the stories about six years earlier, and continued working off and on, I know the feeling. I'm always worried, though, that with such a long story, I'm boring people. Taken up to eleven, you pour your heart and soul into a story, and it's viewed as an exercise in vanity and self-absorption.
About posting parts at a time: if you manage to end on a cliff-hanger, and leave your readers nerve-wracked and in agonizing suspense, that's truly a wondrous result -- mission accomplished!
-- Daphne Xu