10 [Report This]Date: July 30, 2011 07:59 pm Title: Perspective
Hey! I just reread your awesome story this weekend and realized that you are not yet complete!
Do you still have plans to give us an epilogue? I'd love to read it!
Author's Response: Thanks for remembering that this story exists. :) I do still plan to write an epilogue but as of yet have no direction for it, which kind of sucks. I hope to have something before school starts up again at the end of August.
7 [Report This]Date: May 18, 2011 08:17 pm Title: Perspective
Well done more_awake. I like the way you resolved Pam's angst about the new baby as a reaction to Ryan's insensitive comment.
Author's Response: Thanks! I didn't want to drag it out much longer, but I had a hard time thinking of a way to wrap this up. Glad you liked it. :)
Date: May 18, 2011 10:47 am Title: Perspective
Great job, MA. This is exactly why Pam & Jim having another kid could be interesting and funny and a great story arc if the writers decide to write in Jenna's pregnancy. SO many families have multiple children and you have to figure out how to be pregnant AGAIN and take care of a little one at the same time.
Author's Response: Yes! I agree. I really hope they write it in and give us a little work-life balance storyline at some point.
Thanks for the comment!! :)
10 [Report This]Date: May 18, 2011 06:34 am Title: Perspective
So pleased that you continued this lovely story, more_awake! The thing I think I like most about this is the united front that Jim and Pam ultimately present. They're in this together, forever. I also enjoy the range of emotions that Pam goes through. I look forward to the epilogue and can't wait to read it from the beginning. Excellent job!
Author's Response: Thank you so much! It's taken me more than a year to get this far, so I always worry that people will have lost interest or forgotten. So, thanks for sticking with me :) Hopefully it won't take me 900 years again to post the epilogue. hehe
Date: May 17, 2011 07:54 pm Title: Perspective
I am so glad you came back. I reread the whole think and just loved it. Pam's reaction and emotions are so realistic and heartfelt. I especially loved how she wanted to kill Ryan for what he said. Thank you again for this. I'm looking forward to the epilogue.
Author's Response: When I sent this to Danielle to beta-read, my fear was that it was too sudden of a change of heart for her, so I'm so glad to hear that it came off as believable. Thank you so much for the feedback and for remembering/sticking with this story :)
Date: May 17, 2011 06:24 pm Title: Perspective
Is it sad that there are three of us vying for the slowest writer crown?
BTW, forgot to mention that I love our portrayal of Pam's guilt. I think it's very realistic that, in her present state, she'd feel like the coworkers' reactions are payback for her lack of excitement about the baby. The emotions in this story ring true.
Author's Response: Haha I'm just glad I'm not the only one. Some writers here can just bust out awesome stuff so quickly, and here I am taking more than a year to write five chapters. (Thanks for this second comment, too :))
Date: May 17, 2011 06:18 pm Title: Perspective
Nope, you are not the world's slowest writer; not even the slowest MTT writer. I'm afraid I have that dubious honor.
This was definitely worth the wait! I really like Pam's interior monologue throughout. And I love the little details that help Pam to snap her priorities into focus: Ryan's little backhanded insult making her protective, Jim's wanting another girl making this baby seem more real, Cece's wanting mommy making Pam feel successful at motherhood. Nice details.
Author's Response: Hehe :P Thank you very much! I tried to come up with little ways that would make her change of heart seem organic rather than rushed, so I'm glad it came across well. :)
10 [Report This]Date: May 17, 2011 04:35 pm Title: Perspective
I loved loved loved this. I forgot how much I enjoyed this story, and was looking forward to it being updated. Definitely not disappointed :)
P.S You're not the worlds slowest writer, that's me, don't try and steal my crown LOL.
Author's Response: Thank you! I worry that being a slow writer might make people lose interest, so I really appreciate that you remembered it and still care enough to read it.
And YAY for slow writers! haha I'm glad I'm not the only one.
10 [Report This]Date: May 17, 2011 04:31 pm Title: Perspective
I love this chapter for soo many reasons! It follows the previous one so well. I really can feel the way she feels, you're so great with description and details. My favorite thing about this is like I said, I love how the moment from work that makes her angriest is what makes her realize that she's okay with baby number two. And I also found it so good that Jim just held her by the car and didn't say any words or try to make jokes he just let her cry it out. Sometimes we just need to cry it out. I really love your writing and I look forward to the epilogue and many other stories that you write!
Author's Response: Thank you so much, Danielle. Seriously, I'm so thankful that I've had you to look over all of this over the last year. I'm not a particularly confident writer, so it's really helped to have someone look over it, make suggestions/corrections, and okay it before I post. I'm glad you liked this chapter. It means a lot :)
Date: May 17, 2011 04:05 pm Title: Perspective
So glad you didn't forget about this story. Nice twist there, having her worst moment become the thing that makes her find the happiness in the situation!
This bit made me laugh because yes, so true:
You might as well get used to it because in the coming months, your husband is going to get a nice congratulatory pat on the back from all of male civilization for this one— as if this was all his doing and you just passively laid there as he got you pregnant for the second time in barely over a year.
Whatever.
Brava. :)
Author's Response: Thank you! I had a hard time thinking of a way to resolve everything, so I'm glad you liked the way it ended up :)
And yes. It's funny how that works (at least when it isn't too obnoxious, haha). My cousin and his wife recently had twins, and one of his buddies bought him a shirt that said something like, "Father of Twins: Twice the Man." When my other cousin (his sister) saw it, she said to him, "You know you had nothing to do with the fact that they're twins, right? They're fraternal. That was all your wife." He tried to play it off like, "Yeah, whatever," but it was pretty funny.