It's happened again.

[velvetpage]

A little less than a year ago, Piet and I compared notes and realized that someone on his livejournal friends list was a former boyfriend of mine (in a loose usage of the word "boyfriend," at least.) Well, it's happened again.

Considering I never dated anyone seriously before Piet, it's really strange to keep running into guys in this manner.

This one is even less of a real boyfriend than linkmedia ever was. Rodney and I did, in fact, go on a real date once. This is not true of Sammy. zatara2000 went to elementary school with me in Peterborough. If I recall correctly, his was the suit that I wore during the scenes at Mr. Brown's house when I portrayed Oliver. That was twenty-three years ago. My sister was a rather large bump in my mother's belly when I brought down the house in that play.

I moved away from Peterborough the summer I turned eleven. In the years after that, I went back to visit periodically with a girl who ended up being one of my bridesmaids, though we've fallen out of contact in the last few years. On one or two occasions, she invited zatara2000 to come to the movies as my date.

Let's see if it happens again, shall we?

Sam? It's Erin. How're you doing?

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[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Actually, the bulk of the anecdote was about something that happened after he movie, between me and Tara, so I'm not going to share it any further. We were - what, fourteen? No one likes who they were at that age. It seems to me that was a bad visit all around. It was the first time I realized that distance had allowed a friendship to continue that otherwise would have fizzled. And, for the record, Tara and I are still friends - we just both have such busy lives that actually getting together hasn't happened in a few years.

Piet introduced me to gaming after we were married. Furries are on the list because one of the gaming companies he writes for publishes furry games, so we play them fairly often, and I've written a couple of novels set in that world. The first will hopefully be published this year; the second needs a pretty major rewrite and the addition of some thirty thousand words worth of political intrigue. That's not easy when you've created the setting out of (nearly) whole cloth.

[zatara2000.livejournal.com]

Well, considering that the anticdote has nothing directly to do with me and seems quite personal, fair enough because it's probably none of my business. However, I must admit that part of me is quite envious that you still have been able to hold on to friendships, no matter how much time has lasped, from such a long time ago. Not something I ever did and soemthing I always envy. If you ever talk to Tara I hope you will tell her that we were in touch and I turned out alright...that is if you figure I have because, once again, thats a matter of opinon of course.

You write novels? Has any of them been published? Where could I get my hands on these novels? I'd love to read your work...

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Only two, and the first has been accepted for publication by Sanguine Inc, Piet's publishing house. It will probably be published through Sofawolf, which (in case it wasn't obvious) specializes in anthropomorphic fiction, which is what this is. It's called Dreamcarver, and it's based on a roleplaying campaign.

The second book is kinda sorta a prequel, except that I invented the world - or rather, the sea - since that part of the Ironclaw world hadn't been well detailed, and I didn't like the details I had so I made up my own. :) The characters are dolphins. It's got a lot of good stuff in it, but it needs some work - I didn't realize until I had written 80K words that the trajectory of the plot was all wrong, and some major confrontations weren't going to happen unless I went back to the middle and changed it. So a big rewrite is necessary. I'm hoping to start peddling it in the fall, since I'll hopefully get some time in the summer to work on it.