It’s almost sad how quickly Ben relents to Randy, he’s really committed to him – almost as though he would rather Randy be happy than himself…
This doesn’t suck – I do feel it was an odd place to say he’d come out to his parents because you don’t expand on what happened, but the conversation between Ben and Randy is well-written and poignant… MH :)
You’ve got the tense changing thing again, with some present tense stuff at the end. I think I was thrown by the parents thing too, since it doesn’t get expanded. I also didn’t get the line about the timing of the coming out and talking to Randy, cause that didn’t really seem to happen either. I think what you need to work on is the disconnect between what’s in your head and what gets communicated to the reader.
Honestly, I don’t even know. I don’t really want to change it because, again, I didn’t really feel much inspired to write this. I kind of threw some thoughts together and published.
As for the past/present tense, it’s not a mistake. When I give the read information that has happened, how can i possibly make it present tense? It’s like telling a short recap until you finally get to the point in time where they are now, which is in the classroom.
This was definitely not my best work, but I tried and did my best. I’m actually quite happy on how it was. I didn’t have much space to explore how Ben came out for I only have so many characters and I needed to set this in the time where the announcement was said.
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