Hey everyone,

Well now that a little time has passed by and people [more than I expected] have weighed in with their thoughts on the latest Storm Front, I thought I'd give my own thoughts.  I don't put my thoughts below a chapter anymore.  I used to do that, but I find I might as well do that here and there's less break in the flow of the story for people who are going from chapter to chapter. 

First of all, I have to say I'm fucking amazed!  The feedback on the latest Storm Front, as FallenPhoenix said, has been incredibly varied.  Some people didn't like it.  Two people gave it a terrible rating of 3.  I love that there are so many varied views.  I can see where everyone is coming from, but I think my views have pretty much already been stated by FallenPhoenix and me old mate BP.  I think Storm has been miserable for so long in Season 4 that people forget what he used to be like.  Storm is like his name.  He's random, he's unexpected. He is what he is.  This is almost a full circle return to how he was in Season 1. 

I tried so hard for so many years to stop Storm Front from becoming a partner swapping exercise, but I see on the forums already that people are entertaining different combinations.  Now if I'm being perfectly honest, partner swapping is nothing new to Storm Front.  But it's never been the focus.  I mean, some people forget that Pre-SF Storm and Sarah were a couple.  Josh and Claire were a couple before Dade and Claire.  Bleh.  But I've tried to keep Storm/Lucas pretty consistent.  When Storm and Marcel finally got together though in What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?  I was really quite ecstatic.  I think it was something that was always bound to happen.  And now in the forums some people have been tossing up the whole Marcel/Lucas scenario.

Wow.  Talk about random!  Well, not completely, I suppose.  I can't wait till this story is over so I can talk about what I thought might and might not work etc.  Marcel and Lucas could work, BUT I don't know, I think Storm and Marcel probably would work a lot better.  But anyway, whatever whatever. 

Something else that has been mentioned is how I've changed my mind a lot about SF.  That probably has been because of how long it's taken to write hahaha.  So long between damn chapters.  It's annoying as hell.  I can actually write quite quickly.  If I have the time, I could probably sit down and get the rest of SF down in a couple weeks or two.  I've already diverged off my original plan though and some of my prewritten stuff doesn't work.  For instance.  Storm was never supposed to have a role in this mini arc going on now outside of some third person comments.  He was going to show up, give everyone the finger and a fuck you by winning the tournament and then buggering off out of SF.  BUT then I reached the point where Storm showed up.  And for a long time after that first appearance of his, I deliberated with BP about what would be best.  Etc etc.  But in the end, I couldn't help myself.  It just felt odd writing Storm without writing Storm.  Sure, it would've been cool to make his appearance more brief, cold, and detached.  But eh, I don't think I wanted Storm's last show in SF to be like that.  And now here we are and I'm so happy [despite the mixed reaction] that I now feel I'm doing it how it should be done.  Sarah wasn't supposed to show up.  Storm wasn't supposed to be written in first person.  And now it's all come together.  The Pack are back, and I'm really enjoying it. I'm happy about it.  One person commented about the fact that Storm and the Pack have come in and taken over.  I even got an email asking why Storm and the Pack are taking over the show.  Well, the only answer I have to that is Storm and the Pack are the show.  They were the show, yes, and they still are until the last chapter of SF turns up.  Dade and the B-Team might be the focus of Season 5, but you don't get four seasons worth of a leading character and his closests companions without building some presence about you.  I, personally, haven't felt this good writing SF for a while.  The morbid shit gets old after a while.  A good dose of Pack 'get your priorities right' mentality never hurt anyone.  Storm might be acting a little up the wahzoo lately but you know, that's just how he is.  I really sincerely hope that by the end of this season those of you who stuck around this long can look back and say 'hey, it was a good journey'.  I'm not here to make all of you feel happy about everything that goes on.  I'm not here to please anyone.  I'm here to write and hopefully share a little something from myself in this story.  It's taken ten years to get to this point.  Way longer than I expected.  I don't know exactly how it will go.  I won't bother trying to stick my foot in my mouth by saying this and this won't happen because I shot myself in the foot already by having Storm come back.  So whatever happens?  It happens.  I have an idea of how it'll go, but until it's written, you might as well just toss a coin.

As for this site?  I still don't know.  i'd really love some suggestions on what you might like to see.  I write a lot more than you see here and I would like to share some.  I think maybe I'd like this site to become a repository for some of my writing, but I'm at a point in my life where I really would like to turn this into something I can evnetually call a full time gig.  Anyway, I just came on to share my thoughts.  I have a lot more I'm sure, but this is already a fucking long piece of pondering.  Until next time, as always, I am your host,

Peace Out!