Date: March 07, 2008 06:53 am Title: Force
Excel, Easter, Jazz, Purgatory
HA! Another excellent chapter, with some really nice, sensitive characterization for Dwight.
Author's Response:
Dwight is very sensitive on some issues, which is why he buries his emotions in a mountain of nerdiness. I think he spends a lot of time trying to live up to what a Schrute should be.
I wasn't sure on using Purgatory, since I wasn't sure that Angela's religion believed in purgatory. But it was fun to include it.
Originally, this story had the first half just as a paragraph or two of exposition in the middle of the second half. But then I decided I wanted to see how that would be fleshed out.
One of the reasons I'm a bit slow in putting these stories up is I have the basic concepts and a rough draft down but I end up altering things so much that before I know it something more ambitious than I originally intended has evolved.
Date: March 05, 2008 06:35 pm Title: Force
Fact: you can’t force it, you let them be free and hope they choose you. And Dwight's animal does need a lot of loving before she'll choose him again. Nicely done, swedge!
Author's Response: Thanks. And of course Angela ended up jumping in his lap, figuratively speaking. A cat to her core.
Date: March 05, 2008 05:31 am Title: Force
I love this view of sad Dwight and his relationship with Angela. It renews my interest in what will happen to them in the last part of this season. Will Angela choose to come back? Is she a smart kitty? ;)
I also applaud any appearance of Cousin Mose in a story or on the show. No doubt the Seamonster is back at Schrute Farms, waiting with some cat food to welcome Mose and Garbage home. He'll be disappointed the cat isn't with them.
Author's Response: A year ago I'd have been concerned that my portrayal of Mose, not just in this story but in any, would be too over the top. But they kind of out over the topped the fanfic writers in Money so I feel freer to use him.