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Heart and Home
| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Heart and Home |
| Author(s): | Charlotte Frost |
| Date(s): | 3/09/04 |
| Length: | 220k, 96pgs |
| Genre(s): | slash |
| Fandom(s): | The Sentinel |
| Relationship(s): | |
| External Links: | online here |
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Heart and Home is a Jim/Blair story by Charlotte Frost.
It is a sequel to Truths That Wake.
Summary: "Jim and Blair's lives are going great, so why is everything so complicated?"
Author's Comments
I don’t remember much about how this story came about; only that I’d been thinking for a long time about doing a domestic-life sequel to “Truths That Wake”. The problem with that type of story is finding something dramatic to keep the reader’s interest. By the time I had introduced Janet, the secretary, I still didn’t know what was going to happen. But I think the sexual harassment angle ended up being a good one. The story’s credibility got a tremendous boost with help from a beta who had worked in the legal field.I did have a major dilemma in this story, in that I felt it wouldn’t be complete unless the reader heard Janet’s side of things. But no matter how I tried to think of a way for her to tell her side, I kept running up against the fact that her revealing her true feelings would be a violation of her ultra-rigid character. So, I reluctantly decided that Jim and Blair’s suppositions in the elevator, after seeing the attorney the last time, was going to have to be accepted by the reader as “fact”.
I was relieved that this story seemed to work well with sex scenes only being mentioned in passing. I thought that, as a “slice of life” piece, it came out pretty well. It also allowed me to interject some of my own beliefs that events in life are as all-encompassing or life-changing or angsty as we choose to make them.
A couple of weeks after I posted this story, I got a call from a new client who needed a bookkeeper. I went out to meet with him and found out that, while he was a pastor who performed weddings, his main source of income was as a professional speaker throughout the country. He had a secretary to do the clerical work. Her name was Janet. (She was actually a very nice person.)
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