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Hi, Jade,

Wow! Keeping up with you is like being a tornado hunter! I’ll try to answer all this stuff before you change your story again!

The girl you’re NOT writing about needs more motive than just saving a YouTube channel. The channel has to be run by a couple of dear old ladies who founded the channel, and love it, and need it to continue to make their meagre living. Or a dear old gentleman. Or 2 newlyweds who are trying to keep body and soul together. The channel has to MATTER.

Now on to Joey. You could do worse than THE HYPNOTISTS, which is about Jax, a supremely gifted person who is from a long line of hypnotists, and barely understands his own powers. Or Noah Youkilis, who is brain-gifted and a complete idiot in every other way — that’s UNGIFTED and SUPERGIFTED. Or the lead kid in EVEREST. Or the kid from NOTORIOUS — he’s a true adventurer, but with a physical handicap that gradually disappears as the story progresses. Whatever and whoever suits your purposes. Can I suggest that you create him from scratch and not worry about any other author’s heroes? You might like him better that way.

The town you’ve never visited. Does it have to be a real place? If so, you’d better look it up and find out a little bit about it. Otherwise, you can do what I do, and create it to suit your story. (Don’t tell anyone I said that!)

And you’d be wise to listen to JR, who is very smart and has definite writing instincts, (and don’t tell him I said that!)

And yes, I do know that there’s a discussion brewing on I WANT TO GO HOME, which was my top seller until RESTART came along.

Have I answered everything? Hope so.                                                                           –G–