: Re: First quarter friends As I've mentioned before, I'm working on a military sci-fi novel. Here's the trouble with the military: you don't spend all of your service, start to finish, with the same

I think you have a great opportunity here.

At the end of the day writing is about themes and genres. Does this loosing friends fit in with the story you are trying to tell? Do you want people to learn how hard it is to be in the military? In that case great! Drop all the characters your readers have been investing in. Make the reader miss them, make your character miss them. Describe your new friends from the perspective of old friends. "Today I finally found Mike's replacement. His name is Bob and I can talk to someone about cars again."

If this does not fit your themes then you may have a harder time. You could make a big joke out of all of it. You could have some good luck and be stationed with the 2 guys from his core friends group. If portraying feelings accurately based on millinery life is not what's important, then the reader also won't care that much if you fudge it.

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