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Standing Up by Chris James


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Chris has managed that great thing an exciting first chapter... We already know there's another kid with a life-threatening crisis. We know the help that has arrived, it's the team that saved the day in Falling Down.

A sequel is tricky to pull off if it's just a sequel, but this story already feels different and... exciting. So get on board, the train left the station and it's going to be quite a ride!

It's here

http://awesomedude.com/chris_james/standing_up/index.htm

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There is a tightness to this writing that keeps you caught on the hook as the author starts to reel you into what is no doubt going to a great story. We all know how difficult squeals are to pull off but from the start this feels far more like a new story with the same base character set as "Falling Down" rather than the followup on the old story. Can't wait for the following chapters to appear..

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I've fallen down and now I'm standing up with joy at this new story by Chris. and he's posting so soon after his previous epic. Should we send him a food basket, or just slide a pizza under the door?

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It's not often that we have a sequel on AD, but Chris has provided one for us with chapter 1 of Standing Up, and ended that chapter with a cliffhanger for us to fret about until he gets around to posting chapter 2.

Alright, where is chapter 2, Chris??

Colin :icon_geek:

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I've fallen down and now I'm standing up with joy at this new story by Chris. and he's posting so soon after his previous epic. Should we send him a food basket, or just slide a pizza under the door?

My thanks to all of you for these kind comments. And lest you think I am slaving away at the keyboard 24/7 I will tell you that I had four chapters of this story written before even finishing Falling Down. You see, I had another story with these new characters and no place for them to go. But like shuffling cards I joined the old cast with the new and what you get is Standing Up.

This is why I say never cast off anything you write, it might come in handy. But as for that pizza offer, I have been known to eat one but rarely. The best pizza I ever ate is now a 1000 miles away in a past life. But this story is here and now and each chapter is written to make you want more. Enjoy the fun and hold the anchovies.

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Loved the first chapter. I think setting this story a couple of years after the first makes a huge difference. Rather than being a sequel, it's a separate story set in the same world with some of the same characters.

I'm looking forward to reading more, though I'll probably wait for a bunch of chapters to be posted before I go back. I'm not as able to follow serialised stories as well as I used to :icon1:

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Well the third chapter has just been posted and I am really enjoying this story, it is Chris at his best and just gets better and better.

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I have just re-read Falling Down and Standing Up and find if anything they are better this time around, which I think is the third time I have read these stories, though it might have been the fourth! I have no doubt I will re-read them again in the future.

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