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...runs home.

    But as Shane nears the house running he finds that no one has woken up yet. The sun is still pretty low in the sky its probably about 4 am. His father doesn't get up until 5.

    Shane stops at the front of his house. He breathes in deeply, suddenly realizing that his asthma has not acted up at all during his entire run home. In fact he was able to run without even feeling winded.

    He checks his pocket, and realizes its probably a good thing because his inhaler is missing. He figures he must have left it on the grass when he woke up in the field. He shrugs not worrying about it for now and sneaks into the house.

    If he's lucky he can sleep for another 3 hours, so he crawls into bed and closes his eyes. Before drifting off again he rubs the back of his neck, not really noticing the small bump of red irritated skin that has formed back there. Then he's off to sleep once more.

Shane's strange wake up call

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Just Chatting
seldom "sure no prob

lookin forward to reading it whenever you find the time

:)
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Writers_Block "Gimmie some time to mull over it, my girl is napping but she'll be awake soon and want some WB attention haha... I'll get back to it maybe later tonight."
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seldom "anyone going to add to this? - because I could do another branch
WB?

:)
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seldom "I've got to get out of this 'like' fetish I seem to have. It's like getting like too much."
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seldom "Too cliched? Hope it's ok anyway. I like describing dreams :-)"
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seldom "Lol tense change. Maybe we should stick to one tense?

But v exciting adventure.
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Writers_Block "I actually prefer prologues, and I usually write them with every story. I guess thats where the exposition side of me comes out. I suppose I can tweak again though. I've been tweaking a lot already :P."
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Rac7hel "yours and mine, at least. And here's a 5 for your branch too. :)"
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seldom "Re exposition. I tend to avoid it as much as I can. Most of it is stuff anyone reading doesn't need to know right away, and that they can gather anyway from later events.

This is my reason: In general exposition - ie chunks of explanations in the text that don't move the action forward - always sound to me as if it's the writer working out the plot details, like a kind of synopsis.

You really don't need so much of it I think. I also dislike prologues for this reason.

But then I am weird. No need to go by what I say, and take everything exactly with as much salt as you like. This is all strictly my opinion :-)
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Rac7hel "I agree with Seldom here. I think it would have been better to start with the character, and the extreme coincidence that he was looking through his telescope and saw a comet that actually crashed onto his property. And you keep all the really interesting stuff in your head and subtly reveal it throughout the story-making process. Then it becomes a game for you, to take the story in your head plus whatever people write, and mold them together. At least that's what I find to be really fun about this site. And the shorter the intro, the easier it is to branch. Same thing I was saying on your Sub-Aquatic Bearthing story. All in all I really like this concept, and Shane... a nerd, even in his coolest dreams. ;)"
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Writers_Block "I kind of had an idea of what I wanted this story to be but I didn't like the finished product. Oh well one of the bastard children that usually come out haha.

I hear the word exposition attached to a lot of my writing, I guess I must be an exposition writer! :P
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seldom "Liked Shane as a character, but I wasn't sure you needed so much explanation at the start. Prefer to jump straight into the character - maybe a personal thing. I've been told off before for not explaining enough lol so perhaps it's my failing.
Anyway, enjoyed. Particularly the last two thirds where we get closer to the action and there's less exposition.
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Writers_Block "Now, I'm basing where I think this story will go a lot on three things. The Rocketeer, Metroid and Guyver. If anyone actually knows what the last one is you're a movie buff like me.
It is NOT at all based on transformers and I don't even want to hear that connection :P, its not at all based on that!
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