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>>Wes, I must admit that I was expecting a much less >>interesting story beginning than you've delivered in >>Blue Beauty. This is not because I question your skill >>as an author; rather, despite your previous comments >>to the contrary, I had not been so captivated by >>Myleigh's character in the two previous novels. >> >>Boy, was I wrong! The story has started off with a >>BANG. Thanks for the surprise, though that was >>probably not your primary intent. >> >>I do question how rapidly Myleigh came to confide very >>personal things with Trey. He had evidently just been >>one of the rather anonymous students in her class >>until he helped get her set up on stage. It wasn't >>even until they had been talking for a bit that she >>found out he wasn't just a few years out of high >>school. For someone who had made a habit of being >>rather intense about her privacy, she certainly opened >>up to him pretty quickly. It seems there should have >>been some, evidently missing, scene that would have >>caused her to believe he would be an appropriate >>person with whom to share some of her private >thoughts. >> >>Also, I kept expecting Myleigh to make some simple >>comment regarding Trey's listening skills. From one >>very brief mention of her name early on, he remembered >>Crystal's name later in the conversation. With all the >>completely new information being shared, most people >>probably wouldn't have recalled the name. Did Myleigh >>have some reason to take for granted Trey's attention >>to detail? >> >>In any case, I'm really looking forward to the rest of >>this novel. Thanks! > >This story might well become my favorite of everything >Wes has written, just because of what he is showing us >in this chapter. I feel that I can understand >Myleigh's feelings both onstage and afterward, in fact >it's almost uncanny. >Having been a person who played and sang onstage for a >decent sized audience, I can vouch for the fact that >the high you feel from the applause and acceptance is >unbelievable, like little else in this world and it >takes a while for the adrenaline to ease off when you >do get offstage. I don't know about other performers, >but I do know that for me, in order to come down from >that high, I almost always had to have a long >conversation with someone. As well as that, I often >felt that I needed to talk to someone with a new >viewpoint, instead of a close friend, so I can see her >choosing to talk to an acquaintance. In my case I >seemed to have a knack for choosing people who did >become friends later. I hope Myleigh has the same >knack. > >Something else I should mention is that performing >live was addictive for me, so I think I can understand >Myleigh's present confusion to some extent. To be >honest, the draw of performing is still there even >though I can no longer play, in fact I've been known >to go out to a karaoke bar once in a blue moon,just to >be sure I can still sing well enough to draw applause. >However, the difference between a stage performance >and karaoke could be compared to the difference >between a five course dinner at a high end restaurant >and grabbing a burger at the drive-thru of Mickey D's. > >Thanks for the tale, Wes, I think it's shaping up well >already.

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