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When the acceptable is not accepted by you, what do you do?
When
I was very kindly offered this chance to appear on ‘Guys
Like Romance Too’ the brief was to pick one of my stories that had a life
changing event. Things like that happen in a lot of my books!
After deliberating for ages I decided to
pick A
Slow Process of Understanding because I’m proud of the story and I think it
has a truly dramatic life changing event.
Have you ever felt like you’re doing the
right thing, the good thing, and everyone else around you isn’t necessarily
wrong but you are definitely more virtuous than they are? Go on, admit it, have you ever felt a tiny bit
smug? That’s how Jimmy feels in the story. In his world slavery is common and
completely accepted. But he doesn’t want to be one of those nasty owners he’s
seen around. No, he’s different, better. He might not have wanted a slave but
now he has one he’s going to be good to him and treat him decently.
He’s basking in his own righteous glow
when something happens that throws him into complete confusion. This life
changing event makes him stop and re-evaluate everything he thought he knew. He
questions his own family, the world around him and, the most difficult of all to
do, himself.
Who is he? What is he? What type of man
does he want to be? It’s not easy to be put in a position when you question
everything. It would be very easy to ignore it, turn away and stick to what he
knows, what’s commonly accepted. It would need an exceptional man to take the tougher
route.
Can Jimmy be that man? He’s not sure. As
for romance? That’s just a distant dream.
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