We decided to do a little role reversal. Here’s Part 2 of our story started two weeks ago.
He undressed slowly, undoing each button with an almost exaggerated motion. She watched him, amused. Did he think that prolonging his punishment was going to make it less severe? She hoped he wasn’t that naive. In fact, the longer it took, the more aroused she got, the more she would like using him.
When he finally worked his way down to the bottom of the shirt and slid it off, letting it fall to the floor at his feet.
He reached down and undid the belt on his pants, not taking quite so long to remove it, before folding it in half and holding it out for her. “Wouldn’t want you to be without a toy for your toy, Mistress.”
She nodded her approval but stayed silent as she watched him continue undressing. She gripped the belt tightly in her hands, feeling the tension in her muscles as she ached to begin unleashing pain on her pet.
He buttoned his jeans and slid down the fly, revealing the bulge in his boxers. He had to hook both fingers into the waistband and wriggle his ass, but he eventually managed to shimmy them down. “Underwear too, Mistress?” he asked.
“Yes, pet. I want to see the welts forming on your bare ass when I beat it.” She slid the leather belt through her palm and then slapped the two halves of the belt together. It sounded impressive.
I could continue on in journal style, but I think it would be a lot more fun if I give you a more… fictionalized version. Snippets, scenes, and stories that are, if not 100% accurate, pretty close. I’ve definitely had to fill in the gaps in my memory sometimes, and I’m sure the dirty talk isn’t exactly the words we said, but it’s pretty close. Richard has definitely said all of them in some combination or other.
So we’ll start with our first time…
The night before, Richard and I had spent some time without Nick. It was all public stuff. We had some gifts to give to a mutual friend, so I picked him up, and we went over to her apartment. But with the pandemic and everything, it was a quick, socially distanced visit. Even so, she realized how much alike Richard and I were. It was uncanny. Although he had interacted with her online before, they hadn’t spent much time together in person.
It had been nice to be able to talk with Richard without anyone else around. We had been skirting lines for a while. I wasn’t supposed to cyber with anyone, and we came…close. Very close. But we hadn’t totally crossed that line, at least.
I had lingered over slightly deflated tires, taking my time pumping them up with my portable pump. And then I had to go inside and wash my hands, of course.
We talked a lot, and we hugged, but we didn’t kiss. And we didn’t cross any lines.
“I want to go write at Richard’s,” I told Nick that morning. He looked at me with narrow eyes. “I can’t get anything done here.” Our house was always busy, especially during the lockdown where no one had anywhere else to be.
“Okay,” he said. I couldn’t tell if he was actually okay with it or not, but that was typical. He didn’t express himself well.
I said that I would be back in time for dinner, packed up my stuff, and off I went. Richard and I did a pretty good job of focusing on our writing and following the rules. Mostly.
So… Unfortunately, the Erotic Journal Challenge seems to have gone defunct. Oh no!
So that leaves us with a hole in the schedule for Fridays. So what we want to know is What do you want to see more of? Our survey is only two questions long, and one is optional! Please let us know!
For this week, we thought we would ask and answer our own question since we didn’t have one to do. The question we’re asking is:
Where is the craziest place you’ve had sex?
Jayden: I have two good ones. One was on a bridge over a highway. We we were college students living with roommates and having no privacy, so that was how we solved it. Afterward, he bet me that he could hit a car with the condom. He did. Just a bumper, but he did. (Please note: We do not advise doing such a thing!)
The second was in the snow. It was sexy and fun, mostly because it’s fun to be able to say “I had sex in the snow,” but in reality, it was just fucking cold!
Richard: I don’t think I have any as good as Jayden. Probably when I had sex at the bottom of a stairwell in college. Both of our roomies were total homebodies, and it was the only place without cameras. It echoed a lot though, I wonder if anyone heard.
So tell us: what’s the craziest place you’ve had sex?
Hey everybody, Richard here with a story for you today. We’re hoping to get a new serial started for you soon, but moving and deadlines on another project are slowing us down a little, so we’re pulling a one shot from our backlog.
This is listed as one I wrote, but I think it sounds more like a Jayden story. Either way, enjoy!
I squirm on the bed, the ice cube freezing cold in my ass. I want it out, but of course, it won’t come out. It will melt, and the water will be absorbed into my body. But in the meantime, it’s oh so cold. He stands over me, chuckling at my discomfort. I take a deep breath. He plays with the rope in his hand. It’s attached to several clothespins that are pinching my body in various places.
Any second now, he’s going to pull on the rope, and the clothespins will pop off painfully. I am not looking forward to it.
Okay, so I am looking forward to it because I love the sharp little pains at his hand.
We thought that we would take an opportunity on Wednesdays to share what’s good in our lives and welcome you to share what’s good in your lives! Please comment below and let us know what’s good! Feel free to be vague or specific. We’re just happy to share good things!
We moved! We’ve been in the new apartment for almost a week. It’s great. We’re exhausted, haha. We managed not to break our blogging streak, even though we had to put up a Sorry post on Sunday! Tell us something good going on in your life!
Richard: We got a tilty bed! And our cat let me put her in the carrier, because she loves me, and trusts me, and wants to snuggle me, and she’s doing so good in our new home!
Do you accept and/or expect structure, rules and limits as a part of your submission? How do you feel about them?
Richard: Rules are meant to be broken, because I am a bad boy and the whole point of subbing is to make you mad and get spankings.
Jayden: I do accept and expect structure, rules, and limits. In fact, they make me feel safe and cared for. Richard has made mention a few times of how much work being a Dom can be, and this is where a lot of that work comes in. As much as it sucks for the Dom to have to put in the work, it’s super important to me to have those rules and structures. I always do my best to make it easy on him, and being Good helps a lot. I want to follow the rules, and the only times I’ve ever broken them, it was accidental. But it’s vital to me as a sub to have that.
Do you include service as a part of your expectations of your submission? How do you define service? What does it mean to you? If not, what is it about the concept of service that is not for you?
Richard: I do. I’m a people pleaser in general, so it comes out pretty naturally in my submission. I would define service as taking care of, or doing, things for others. I don’t think it necessarily has to be sexual, baking brownies can be service too.
Jayden: Yes. If my Dom tells/asks me to do something, I’ll do it, no questions asked. Although we generally don’t do service submission outside the “bedroom”, it’s something we’re toying with and maybe working toward. As Richard said, service is taking care of or doing things for others. I like taking care of my partner, especially as a submissive.
Do you accept and/or expect structure, rules and limits as a part of your dominance? How do you feel about them?
Richard: I respect my sub’s limits, etc. and the structures we’ve put in place to keep everyone safe and comfortable. In terms of rules as part of the power exchange, we use a few. The main one is that Jayden has to ask my permission before she can pee. Again, they’re fun to do, but they have to be set up properly to make sure they don’t turn into a chore for one, or both, of us.
Jayden: I do. I like structure, in general, but I also don’t want to be a long-term Dominant, so it’s not something I do a lot. I have, in the past, had some of those structures, but as Richard said, it became a chore for me.
Do you include service as a part of your expectations of your submissive? How do you define service? What does it mean to you? If not, what is it about the concept of service that is not for you?
Richard: I do. We don’t have a lot of formal service rules right now, but I’ll occasionally tell her to take care of something for me, refill my drink, etc. It’s one of my favorite complications to add to our bathroom rule (you can pee after you bring me a snack, etc.) I’ve done formal service play on occasion with other subs. I think Jayden would be good for it, but it’s not a super Covid friendly scene. Maybe next summer. As a Dominant, I define service (in a kink context) primarily as tasks given to the sub to humiliate them, remind them of their place, etc. Which is pretty different from my sub answer.
Jayden: I do. As a Dom, I really like service in the form of pampering. (I like it as a sub, too, but it’s different.) Massages, lotion, bringing me things, making me feel good. Those are great ways to service me as a Domme.
We’d love to hear your answers! Feel free to answer some/all in the comments or give us links to your blog if you answered them there!
We were going to post more of our FemDomme story, except… we moved this week. We were good and had everything pre-scheduled for the last few days, but we just didn’t get this one written in time. We’ll blame it on the new Tilty Bed!
Also, does anyone have any suggestions on fun sex positions on adjustable beds?
I suppose I could go all the way back to high school, really. I suppose I should, in fact. When I was 17, it occurred to me that I needed to date more people. I needed to experience life. So I broke up with my boyfriend and started dating. I turned 18, graduated high school, and dated six people that summer before I went off to college. Most of them were fleeting, but one stuck around.
Nick and I started talking online and quickly formed a bond. We accidentally met in person when we both attended the same event, and then we started hanging out regularly. But the catch was that he was married. He and his wife had an open relationship, and she knew everything we did. In fact, she knew so much partially because she controlled everything.
I spent much of that summer at their house. I got to know their kids, and I became friends with his wife. And then I went off to college. Once I was out of her grasp and she couldn’t control me anymore, things went to hell.
There I was, 300 miles away, 18 years old, with a 33-year-old boyfriend who was married with kids. Oof.
I could wax on for pages and pages and pages. In fact, I did. I kept a journal throughout that time that ended up being about 120 single-spaced typed pages. Ha! It was a lot of teenage bull shit, honestly. I read through a lot of it last year.
So when I say “long story short,” I truly mean very long story short.
The whole time that we were apart, we were both dating other people. Actually, I think I was more so than Nick. But eventually, Nick did as well. I ended up dating someone pretty seriously. We considered marriage, but in the end, he wasn’t someone I would want to spend the rest of my life with.
By the time I was a senior in college, Nick and I weren’t dating anyone else, and I was hoping that we would get engaged. We did end up getting engaged and eventually married. We identified being “poly” and dabbled in dating other people. As it turned out, we decided that it was better for us to date together. Sounds good, right?
Richard: I don’t think I have one. I guess I’ll start one now. Convince Riley to come hang out with us, we don’t even have to have sex, I just want him to come clean my kitchen in a maid outfit.
I’d like to have a threesome with Jayden and another sub. I want to watch her Domme someone else. That’s not really Jayden specific, it’s a fantasy I have with most switchy partners.
More cuckold type stuff would be fun.
I want to have sex up against the glass of a high up window in a sky scraper. Probably no one will see, but you never know…
I’d like to go to a sub hunt and chase someone down to ravage them.
I want to do posture training where the sub has to sit/stand just right or else the chains that’re clamped/pierced to their clit, nipples, ass, etc. will dig in painfully.
Jayden: Well now. I’m not even sure where to begin here.
The thing is, if you had asked me this question six months ago, I would have said hands down, the only thing I wanted that I hadn’t experienced were an orgy and a gang bang. For someone who was in a ‘poly’ relationship (more on why I put that in quotes…at another time), I really thought it was surprising that I’ve never had an orgy.
And I’ve always wanted to have a gang bang. I’ve watched porn with it before and was very turned on by it. It would probably be a lot, too much maybe, but very hot. I feel like it might be one of those things I wanted to experience once.
That being said, there were a lot of kinks I never knew I had (or didn’t know how deep they ran) until very recently. So maybe my bucket list had more things on it than I thought. (Breath play, rape play, knife play, watersports… to name a few…)
So this week, I’ll share with you a fiction snapshot of a fantasy I’ve had for a loooong time.
In July, we posted about what the Magic Number of 524 is. (TLDR: It’s our goal for how many times we’re having sex in 2021.)
So far, we have had sex* a total of 354 times. The average per day we need is 1.44, and we are currently at 1.59. We’re pretty close to the point where we only need one per day. We’re close! Our average did slip a little bit since our last update a month ago, but moving and an ten day outdoor music festival have made it difficult to keep our numbers up. But have no fear, we suspect it’ll shoot up in September.
Richard: Gotta christen every room in the new apartment least once!
*We declared a “sex” as oral or penetrative sex or mutual masturbation, but it does not necessarily result in orgasm.
We thought that we would take an opportunity on Wednesdays to share what’s good in our lives and welcome you to share what’s good in your lives! Please comment below and let us know what’s good! Feel free to be vague or specific. We’re just happy to share good things!
Jayden: We’re moving tomorrow! Moving is stressful and time consuming and our feet and backs have been sore for days. But on the positive side, we’re getting a new bed tomorrow. (Richard: It’s a tilty bed! I can’t wait to try to sleep in the uncomfortable fetal position mode!) This should be the last day we sleep in the old bed. And, it is exciting to be officially living together. Plus *dishwasher*!
Richard: I’m excited to live in a building that I think was built in the last half century. This one had some charm when I moved in, but it’s really starting to show its age after a few years. We will have skylights (just regular windows, but still neat, and should help keep the bedroom cool), central air, and enough bathrooms for everyone. Also, washer and dryer just off the main bedroom. So much more watersports! THE BOX! (Jayden: The closet in the main hallway makes a giant box in the open living room. It’s pretty cool.) There’s a festival this week, and it’s way more fun than I expected. Even if my stomach does not approve of living entirely off of fried crap and beer.
Thanks for sharing in our good news! Please share some of your own!
1. What are your thoughts on public nudity or skimpy clothing?
Jayden: I don’t care. I’m not sure I am or would be super comfortable with being nude in public or wearing skimpy clothing, but I’m in full support of those who want to!
Richard: I support it. Why not? If it were socially acceptable to do so, I’d probably wear less clothing in public. Clothes suck. Except robes.
2. Which of the following best describes you: a. Exhibitionist b. Voyeur c. Keep nudity and things sexual behind closed doors
Jayden: Mostly b. I do have some Exhibitionist desires and tendencies, but I don’t have the confidence to pull it off.
Richard: Probably more of A than B, but definitely some of both. One of the perks of being a Dom is being able to use your sub to do both at the same time. “Put on this skimpy outfit so I can show you off, and ogle you myself!”
3. What is the most revealing outfit that you have ever worn in public?
Jayden: I have worn a corset before, and once at an adults-only resort, a sweater that was clearly see through. It felt great, but very nerve wracking.
Richard: Sometimes I take the trash out in just a robe or pair of gym shorts, does that count? Otherwise, probably just a pair of short gym shorts and a sleeveless tee.
4. There are only two types of beaches left in the world–clothing optional and must be clothes-free. Which beach will you visit?
Jayden: Probably clothing optional. I might go clothing free, but I would want the option.
Richard: Clothes-free. All the chill people are going to be there, and you know as soon as you decide to take your clothes off at the clothing optional one all the douchebags and judgy assholes are going to come out of the woodwork.
5. You have just gotten out of the shower to find that your towel is hanging outside on the clothesline. Your house is full of guests. Do you: a. Call out for someone to bring your towel. b. Use something else to dry yourself. c. Retrieve your towel as inconspicuously as possible wrapping it around you at the earliest chance. d. Take advantage of the sunshine and dry yourself au naturale in your backyard.
Jayden: It depends on who is in my house. But most likely, I would ask someone to bring it to me.
Richard: Also depends on who is in my house. If the guests are friends/people I’m reasonably comfortable with, I shall enjoy the slap stick antics of trying to heist movie my own towel, all while humming Mission Impossible, Metal Gear Solid, or MacGyver under my breath. Otherwise, probably A. Unless I knew who did it, then probably D. If someone tries to embarrass you, you gotta up the ante. B only as a last resort though. B is boring.
Bonus: Have you ever skinny dipped or visited a nude beach? Pictures would be awesome!
Jayden: I have skinny dipped. I used to have a pool in my back yard and I’ve also skinny dipped in a lake before at night.
Richard: I’ve skinny dipped a few times. Never been to a nude beach before. It’s on my to do list though. I have some good beach foot pics I took for a guy that I can try to find…
Does any element of BDSM occur as a part of your submissive relationships? How do you feel about BDSM? Is it core to your submission, peripheral or non-existent (other than the submission part)?
Richard: I love being bound (and then trying to get out of them and being punished for it) and have a fairly strong masochistic streak. I certainly can sub without them, but they are some of my favorite parts.
Jayden: There are so many parts of BDSM that are important as a submissive for me. I am the polar opposite of a brat, and I try very hard to follow the rules and be Good. It is the core of my submission. If I think Master will like it, I’ll do it and be happy about it. Not because I don’t want to tell him no but because I really, really like it when I’m doing something for the express purpose of pleasing Master.
Do you accept and/or expect discipline or punishments as a part of your submission? How do you feel about it?
Richard: I don’t expect them, but I don’t really mind them either. Mostly it’s just an excuse to get spanked.
Jayden: I don’t like being punished. As Richard demonstrated the other day, all he has to do is scold me and I cower, even when I didn’t do anything wrong and he was doing it as a joke to show our friend. I still got upset (until he told me I was a Good Girl and gave me scritches). But if I do break the rules, then yeah, I’ll certainly accept a punishment, and I have no doubt I would get one.
Is spanking or corporal punishment a part of your submission? Why or why not?
Richard: If I’m not getting spanked, I’m clearly behaving too well.
Jayden: (He’s such a brat!) I get maintenance spankings at least once a week, and I like that, but I don’t want to be spanked as part of a punishment. Mostly because he’d have to spank me really hard for me not to enjoy it.
Does any element of BDSM occur as a part of your dominant relationships? How do you feel about BDSM? Is it core to your dominance, peripheral or non-existent (other than the dominance part)?
Richard: I’ve done some bondage with most partners. Jayden mostly gets tied down so I can make her orgasm too many times in a row. We also do a lot of S&M. Jayden is a huge pain slut, and I’m happy to deliver.
Jayden: I don’t do well as a long-term Dom, so as much as I like it, it’s just something I do for a scene here or there.
Do you accept and/or expect discipline or punishments as a part of your Dominance? How do you feel about it?
Richard: As the Dom, keeping up on punishments can take a lot of energy. It’s one thing to do a funishment and give someone a couple dozen slaps for being bad, but actually tracking, enforcing, etc. rules, and taking the time to punish them when broken, is a lot of time and effort. I’d like to do it more, but it requires a fairly motivated and coordinated sub to keep it from turning into work.
Jayden: I’m not great at giving out punishments. I’m often too nice. I did have a sub once who expected all of his punishments to be things like spanking (which he liked). When I threatened to put him in a corner and not talk to him for 20 minutes, he was really upset, and I pointed out that it was meant to be a punishment, not a funishment. He didn’t like that.
Have you found your dominance has changIs spanking or corporal punishment a part of your dominance? Why or why not?
Richard: Jayden gets a maintenance spanking most Sundays. She gets occasional spankings, canings, etc. when she deserves it as well. We generally try to do punishment directly related to whatever rule she broke, partially because it’s more effective, and partially because she enjoys pain too much for it to be much of a deterrent.
Jayden: I like spanking for play, but not so much as a punishment, and that goes for both my submission and my Domination.
We’d love to hear your answers! Feel free to answer some/all in the comments or give us links to your blog if you answered them there!
Richard and I decided to mix it up a little bit with this series. Enjoy!
She looked down at her submissive, kneeling in front of her. Standing, he was much taller than her, but kneeling… She liked looking down at him, ready to serve her. His brown hair fell down over his forehead, and she resisted the urge to brush it back. She wasn’t here to be loving. She was here to be stern. Punishing.
“Is this outfit appropriate, Mistress?” he asked. A tight pair of black jeans that would give her trouble when she took them off framed his ass, with a light blue (her favorite) button-down on top. The collar around his neck jingled a little as he tried not to shake with nerves.
“It’ll do,” she said, feigning disdain. She hadn’t decided what she was going to do with him first, but she was enjoying making him tremble.
He looked down at her boots, nodding slightly. “This is why I like it when you take me out to the nude clubs, Mistress. Then all I need to wear are whatever marks you left on me or anything you wanted to write on my body.”
“Oh, don’t worry, pet. You’ll be naked soon enough.” She stopped resisting and ran her fingers through his hair, but as her hand went across the back of his head, she grabbed his hair and tilted his head back so he had to look up at her. “Tell Mistress why you’re here.”
He whined and went mostly slack in her grip, “To show off? To dance with? To fetch drinks?” he dropped off, then paused. “For whatever will please my Mistress?” he asked with a wince.
“Did you forget so soon the mistake you made, pet?” She yanked on his hair a little harder.
Those of you who have been around a while know that I used to do this blog solo. But “doing this blog” is a stretch, honestly. I created it to write for the A to Z Blog Challenge, which I quickly became a host for. But in between April A to Z, my posts were sparse. One year I managed to do a daily update on my NaNo words, but that’s about it. Otherwise, I have been super inconsistent.
Back in November, I met (and started dating) someone from my writing group, and we quickly realized that we write some of the same types of content and have similar writing styles. I asked if he would be interested in joining me as a co-blogger. And thus, my partnership with Richard was formed.
We started writing together officially in January (though we wrote often in December so we would have things ready to post) and continued dating. Throughout the last few months, TMI Tuesday has made it pretty clear that we’re in a relationship, not that it was a secret, but it was to many of my personal family and friends.
See, my husband and I were poly (“were” – did you catch that past tense?), and because of my job situation, I have kept my personal life, well, personal. Even my daughter didn’t know. She knew Richard, she’d met him many times, but she didn’t know we were involved. We were going to tell her, and then we didn’t, and in the end, it worked out that we didn’t say anything to her. If you had talked to October Jayden and explained what things would look like even in February, she would NOT have believed you, and she certainly would not have believed you if you told her where she would be in August.
But this blog is mostly anonymous. A few of my friends know it’s me, but there’s nothing I would say here that they don’t already know. So as Richard and I discussed ways that we can increase posting to the blog, he encouraged me to be more raw and honest with my readers and tell you the story of what’s actually going on in my life.
With the exception of TMI Tuesday, I’ve been pretty strictly focused on fiction. And that’s great, definitely in my comfort zone. But my life is interesting, and in fact, I am going to write it into a novel. It will probably be partially fictionalized, but the story is interesting. In April, I wrote a novel that was loosely based on my life and experiences, but there were so many parts that were SO far out there, it would be unbelievable.
So if you’re interested in hearing about the stranger than fiction story of how this blogger came to be where she is today, come back every Saturday from now until ?? to hear the tale.
Be sure to come back tomorrow to see some new collaboration from Richard and Jayden!
What advice would you give to someone who has never had sex before?
Jayden: I spent a lot of time too shy or scared to tell my partners if I liked (or didn’t like) something. Sure, I used my safe word a handful of times over the years, but it had to be *really* bad for me to do that. I would rather please my partner than tell them I was uncomfortable.
And the thing is, I’m not talking about being emotionally uncomfortable. That’s different. I’m talking about doing things in the bedroom that are mildly uncomfortable, too many fingers, too rough, etc. Sometimes I really like those things, and other times I don’t. Even just saying, “Hey, I really need two fingers inside me to be able to cum when you’re going down on me.” For whatever reason, I have always had trouble saying things like that.
And listen: every partner is different. Every partner likes things done a different way. And that’s okay.
I asked my friend once about fingers inside her when a guy is going down on her, and she said she hates it. I love it. Neither is right or wrong, just different. Both are good. But both need to be communicated to your partner. It’s great to pay attention to your partner’s reactions and see what they respond to, but it’s not foolproof, and especially when it’s a new relationship, it’s better to communicate those types of things to your partner. I promise, it’ll be a better experience.
On the flip side!
If a partner gives you advice on what they like, don’t take it personally. I know that that was a tricky thing for me once or twice, when someone said something like, “I really like the thing you did with your hand,” or “I like the way you use your tongue better.” It’s not a personal slight. It’s just telling you the way they like things done. Since everyone is different, you need that advice. Take it, learn from it, and have pleasurable sex for BOTH partners.
Richard: You should try it, it’s pretty cool.
Just check in with your partner and see what they’re into. I dunno, basically Jayden’s answer.
Don’t miss tomorrow’s feature! It’s a surprise, but I think you’ll like it.
Back on New Year’s Eve, we announced that we (Richard and I) were going to attempt to write a combined 1,000,000 words in 2021. I attempted it solo last year, and failed miserably. (Thanks pandemic!) We are almost halfway through our words!
Here’s an update of where we are right now.
At the end of January, we were 50,755 words behind.
At the end of February, we were 103,412 words behind.
At the end of March, we were 168,395 words behind.
At the end of April, we were 85,609 words behind.
At the end of May, we were 158,227 words behind.
At the end of June, we were 206,038 words behind.
At the end of July, we were only 99,148 words behind! We made up a ton of ground over the month of July!
Although the writing retreat was pretty successful words-wise and we wrote a combined 73,500 words, we had to really push through the end of the month to make it to 100,000 words each, but we did it! The early part of July was not very conducive to writing, unfortunately.
So now we look ahead. Our hope for August is that we maintain our current position or get a little ahead. The same for September. November we’ll definitely close the gap with NaNoWriMo happening. And then we’ll finish strong in December. We want to get to the million words this year so we don’t have to do it again next year. (Because you know as competitive as we are, we’ll feel like we need to do it again.) But with the weak start we had, I’m really proud of where we are!
We’re back for a fifth month of The Insecure Writer’s Support Group!
If you’d like to chime in and let us know your answers to the questions or drop a link to your post if you’re participating, please do so in the comments! And check out the IWSG website for more answers!
August 4 question – What is your favorite writing craft book? Think of a book that every time you read it you learn something or you are inspired to write or try the new technique. And why?
1. Are you watching the Tokyo 2020 Olympics? If yes, in which event are you most interested?
Jayden: I’m not. I have watched others in the past, but I just don’t have the time. In general, I like swimming and gymnastics for the summer Olympics.
Richard: No. I’ve never really found a good way to watch them. NBC tends to mostly show the sports I don’t care for, has too many ads, and I don’t care enough to figure out and pay for a subscription.
2. Have you ever been to the Olympics, tried out for the Olympics or do you personally know an Olympian? Which one?
Jayden: I haven’t. Someone in my family has done the Special Olympics though, so that was cool.
Richard: I do. My middle school gymnastics coach was on the 1952 US team.
3. Do you admire any athletes? Why?
Jayden: Sure. No one specific, but professional athletes are incredible. Actually, let me take that back. I think what Simone Biles did with taking care of herself first was impressive. I haven’t followed her career particularly, but it sounds like she’s a smart woman.
Richard: No, and I’ve never really understood people who do. Outside of the top 0.00000001%, sports are a means to an end, not an end themselves.
4. How do you think people find something to be passionate about?
Jayden: I think it comes down to trying different things. There have been things I thought I would hate that I turned out loving, but I never would have known if I hadn’t tried.
Richard: I don’t know. I’ve never been a passion person. My parents made sure I was over that kind of thing by the time I was in middle school.
5. What sport or activity do you like to do often?
Jayden: I’ve never been into sports, particularly. It just wasn’t my thing. I liked playing basketball as a kid, but I’m really short, so that didn’t stick. I was more musical, and have continued playing the piano as an adult.
Richard: Anything involving frisbees.
Bonus: Are you who you want to be?
Jayden: I’m trying to be. I’m learning a lot about myself and trying to make sure that I am who I want to be. It’s not easy!
J R Vincente 