I actually previewed it with the other person involved. We had a good laugh over the memory. It was fictionalized… but very much rooted in the shared memory.

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This is a language arts teacher’s nightmare. Mixed up tenses in a sentence. Dialogue that doesn’t make sense, and leaves the reader who is talking. Plot jumps that are Olympian. The characters are paper-thin, and they don’t develop.

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But one night, a couple of years ago, I was reading a book that wasn’t particularly good. As a side note here, I have read through some books that were pretty bad. It is a point of pride for me to finish one I start, even if I don’t like it. A handful have been a REAL struggle, but only a couple have forced me to give up. Back to the issue… I was reading a book that wasn’t good. It didn’t completely suck, but it could have been SO much better.

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In closing… if you have enjoyed a book, especially one by a new or unknown author, take a moment to give an honest review, whether it be somewhere like Goodreads or Amazon. Wherever it may be, the author will thank you.

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Jack Dixon was a TOTAL loser with a crush on a girl. She didn’t even know who he was. At all. But his father had bought him a computer and it included a game that approximated life. He discovered that he could “replay” portions of his actual life if things went wrong… he could restart the day.

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As I create a character, I will give them a birthday, a picture, a back story and work out more of their details.

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