User blog comment:KitCalling/Second Chances - Why?/@comment-4059927-20181010083634/@comment-36745965-20181010151542

Thank you so much! I'm glad the chapter was enjoyable because this was a foray into uncharted territory for me! I've never written a story that "jumps" back and forth...in fact, the previous two or three versions of this installment, it didn't do this and it had the standard chronological flow.

But I lost the previous "finished" version of the story and had to rewrite it completely, with just a loose mock-up for reference. I came up with the "jumping" this time around because I wanted to build tension and keep the reader guessing what it was that Steve was so shaken up about until the end, the big reveal. I also peppered in the one question that Steve kept asking himself in the "later" jumps: Why had he liked it?

I'm really glad that it panned out and your compliment on the flow of the story is one I take to heart. My biggest inspiration is Stephen King and he has "jumping" between two timelines on a much grander scale in my favorite book of his: IT, which is my favorite book in general.

(Also, my poor sweet babboo. Is there anything worse than having a wrench suddenly thrown into your perception of who you are as a person? I'm glad I was able to make Steve's chapter unique in some way because this is where we learn that Adrian isn't the only protagonist of Second Chances!)