Angela S. Stone

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**VERY** Big spoilers for “Boots on the Ground”

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Ok that that you’ve recovered from the shock of this week’s Six sentence sunday. It’s background time. WARNING!!!!!!!! This post is filled with spoilers for “Boots on the Ground”

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Okay. You’re still here are you? I guess you *really* want to know why David is sleeping with a woman… Not just any woman I might add. His Ex-wife.

First off I posted this six because I wanted to gauge some reader reaction. I have this scene and I’m hesitating to put it into “Boots”.  Basically as you can already guess from the blurb. Jason is MIA in Afghanistan and it’s been about 4 weeks here. David is prepared to have Jason not come back. He believes that Jason is most likely dead.

Carole (David’s ex) comes over late, drops the kids off and tucks them into bed. Afterwards they’re talking and then suddendly they’re kissing and they end up in bed together.

David regrets it even before they’re finished sleeping together and eventually they both agree it was a very large mistake and it won’t happen again. (Oh come on, like you’ve never slept with an Ex).

(Ready for the spoiler part?) When Jason returns home (oh come on you knew he was going to get rescued) he struggles with his feelings about returning home and being rescued. Jason sinks into depression and after three weeks of being home he admits that he’s afraid that David will leave him. He reveals to David that he slept with Ash while they were MIA. Not because he loves Ash but because they both needed it in that moment.

David is hurt but he tells Jason he can’t be mad at him because he  slept with Carole while he was MIA. This information pushes Jason over the edge.  He picks up a gun (albeit unloaded). David stops him and takes the gun away calling 911.

This action forces Jason to get the help he needs to face everything that he’s been through. So David sleeping with Carole is an utterly important moment, but I’m wondering if it can be left out and made a shock or if it should go in the book, or if I should just send the whole thing into the scrap heap!!

What do you think?

Boots on the Ground

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It took me nine weeks to write “Sometimes It’s Fate” as soon as I finished I started writing the follow up, “Boots on the Ground” I’ve been writing this book for a year and a half and there is finally an end to the long tunnel. Why has it taken me so long to write?

Good question.

I think it had to do with a lot of things going on in my life. I lost all all important momentum that comes with writing. Just after I finished Sometimes I moved half way across the country, I started working instead of just going to school. I finished School, then I started studying for my big nurse Exam. By the time that was done I found a job and started working again. I didn’t have the time or the focus to really write.  I would open something write 10k and move on, or drop 1000 words here 2000 words there. etc.  I felt a bit defeated as well I wrote a book, a subbed and subbed and subbed and all I got was rejection notices.

Finally someone picked it up, but my focus was else where. A new book idea came along in January and I spent 8 weeks writing that and another 8 polishing and scrubbing. Now I’ve done a few subs I’ve put it on the shelf for now. I’m back to focusing on Boots. At the moment I have 48 700 words plus another 15k or so ready to drop in once I connect the scenes together. I finally feel like things are moving along. Just need to keep that momentum!

Here is the -working- blurb for “Boots on the Ground”

Ash Cooper knows him and, his Civilian Police partner, Jason McCarty need to do one thing- Stay Alive. An IED attack leaves both men stranded in the high desert of Afghanistan and running from insurgents. With damaged satellite phones and Ash being injured their only hope is to take refuge with a group of civilians until they can be rescued. But rescuers don’t come and as the days turn to weeks Ash and Jason think about home, the partners they left behind, and when all hope is lost they turn to each other in a struggle for survival.

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