Becky has posted the first installment of our collaborative story at Gatchfanfic: A Man Like Me

I really like what you guys have done with this! It's an interesting setup, and you've neatly separated Jason from the others. I'm sure he'll have some interesting adventures while he's being rescued! I'm still dying to know what the big twist is... my first thought was an 'imprinting' quadrangle a la Edward/Bella/Jacob/Renesmee from Twilight. But now I'm wondering if Jason has other relatives on the planet, like maybe an identical twin brother, or some other such thing... so many possibilities!

Thanks TJ! Would you believe that I've never seen or read any of the Twilight series? I hope the story lives up the expectations.

Amethyst and Becky, I promise to start reading your fic soon, together with a couple of others I'm so looking forward to read! I can't wait to have that time!

Originally posted by amethyst Would you believe that I've never seen or read any of the Twilight series?

Not necessarily surprising. Some people have and some haven't. I was curious about all of the fuss, so I read the books. They're decent, if you like angsty teen romance. But I was reminded of the imprinting plot twists those books use.

A lot of the paranormal romance genre use the ideas of imprinting, soul mates, etc to explain love at first sight. That really wasn't on my mind when I came up with the idea of a planet with a mostly female population and what their culture would be like. Colaborating with Amethyst on this is a fantastic experience. We manage to pull each other up when we hit a wall. It's the first time we've colaborated with anyone else and it's worked out.

I just read the second part of this in Birdscramble today (reading the first part again got me thinking about it ) and I think maybe there are a couple of pages missing at the end?

TJ, send me an email with the last sentence or two that you've got. I tried to pick a logical ending place, but maybe it didn't work out, or maybe your copy got shorted. If it did, I'll email you a file with the whole submission. The story's not over with the second submission. Maybe I should have put to be continued. Will remember that next time.

No, I knew the story wasn't over... but some pages didn't connect with the next ones.

Ame, I'll leave that to you. I haven't gotten very far into my BS yet. I'm reading yours right now, TJ, and will comment when I'm done, but so far, I'm loving it.

Good to know!

I've been enjoying this in Bird Scramble! An intriguing premise -Jason's going to have an interesting time of it, I am sure... My copy was okay in the latest issue.