Little Thing...
Do you guys remember that banner? It was created by the absolutely fantastic nivieniv . I've been gone since March on what appears to be an unannounced, unexpected writing hiatus. I've still been reading everybody's comments, hatemail (unfortunately), encouraging mail (yayyyy!!!), concerns, etc. I've also been reading everybody's stories on the Chlollie comm. So if you're a writer out there who doesn't know if your work has been read, do know that at the very least, I've been checking it out. I'm really really really bad at reviewing, but I do read it all.
It looks like I've been on a writing hiatus, but I feel that in order to do that, I would have to not write. But I've been working on fifty million different versions of chapter thirty-seven of Erase, new fic ideas pop in my head all of the time (I actually have full plot ideas for a couple of them), and I'm constantly trying to think of different ways to approach Savior. I've mostly been gone because of a) real life. I just got over the most ridiculous, drama filled semester of college in my entire life. Once the drama ended, I've had b) computer issues. I commute, so the computer that I use is a 6 year old desktop that practically went to hell when I thought years ago that it would be a good idea to upgrade my Windows XP (that's how old it is. Pats desktop fondly) computer to Windows Vista and it never really worked as well as it did before the upgrade. And then I tried to go back to XP at some point, but it never worked. And then I tried WIndows Seven, but my computer got stuck during the installation process between Vista and Seven. So we're back on Vista, my computer is practically dying, and blue screens up to 7 times a day. The blue screening has been constant for the past 5 years, but it's never been a 7 a day-er until now. And while I would really love to find some sort of way to fix it, I've gotten frustrated to the point where I decided that I'm going to just purchase a new laptop and do all of my work on there. Which I should be getting down to in the next couple of weeks. Which brings me down to the next topic. Updates.
I need to get a new update for Erase done. Like, major big time. So after my technological issues are all sorted (which at the very latest, will happen at the end of the month), keep an eye out for an update for Erase. So by the end of the month, or beginning of September, you'll be seeing an update for Erase. AND you'll be seeing an update for Disciple. I know you guys are a bit mad at me for not updating Erase. I've been reading all of the emails, saying that I'm a jerk, a bitch, a tease, a terrible person, a typical multi-chapter fic writer that abandons stories, a bad writer for doing this to her fans, etc etc. I've read every single one of them. I know that it's difficult because people abandon their stories sometimes. But I promise, I'm not one of them.
Erase is getting the first update, and then Disciple, and then I'm going to try to stay steady with once a week updates in one or both of those stories for a while. I'd like to finish Erase, so that I can work on King. But I really want people who read King to have read Queen first. It's really important to me because I'm going to be using Queen in King, and you can only truly understand it if you've read Queen. So after Erase is done, I'm going to repost links to Queen on the Chlollie Comm once a day (Just like it was done recently with the absolutely fantastic story "Ordinary Boy". That story is the inspiration for that idea. So I'd like to credit laurelnola for that idea), and then the first couple of chapters of King before I start updating that once a week. I don't know how long King is going to be, just like I don't know how long Erase is going to end up. I just have a plot-line. The final chapter number is not planned, so I can't give you a number, sorry guys.
After everything's done with every companion piece for Erase, and King's ironed out, I'd love to continue with Savior, my Green Arrow comic book story that has Chloe Sullivan integrated. It'll ignore any developments that occur with the new Green Arrow redo that's happening, and will focus on the aftermath of the Promethius issue. And just for funsies, it'll have a small amount of season 9 plot in it as well.
I can give you guys a number for the amount of chapters left in Survival: One. One very long a grueling chapter based on the Checkmate episode coming from Chloe's point of view. I'm ending it there because that's where it was meant to end all along. Not because I'm losing steam, running out of ideas, or because I don't like writing Survival anymore. It was meant to end at the Checkmate episode, and if you wanted the last chapter up for closure purposes, then maybe I should have gotten some encouragement after I wrote a 10,000 word chapter based on the Escape episode. I didn't get a single review from that chapter. Unfun. But I haven't run out of ideas. Not at all.
I have so many ideas popping in my head for different Chlollie ideas, it's not even funny. Even though the show's no longer airing new episodes, and a lot of people seem satisfied with the Chlollie endgame, I'm very selfish. Chlollie's married (got married before Clois did, which for some sick reason, I was really happy with), they ended up endgame with a kid, and with speculation, another one on the way. But it's not good enough for me. I've been shipping Chlollie since season 6, and I really would have liked to see it all unfold in front of me. The interview with Justin Hartley during the 10th season comic con gave me the impression that Oliver was going to "move heaven and earth in order to find her (Chloe)", and I never got to see that. Instead, I got a "I stopped looking for you, figured that's what you wanted". And even though I was a giggling, happy fangirl when Chlollie got reunited in Collateral, got even more excited during Masquerade, and practically had a heart attack from excitement when they got married, now that the show's over, I've had a bit of time to think. I really want to approach season 10 in two different ways. Which is why you can look forward to the following (for now. There may be more ideas in the future, and titles are currently tentative):
1. Knight
A one-shot fic from the point of view of Tess Mercer, showing her response to Oliver Queen revealing his identity to the world. It explores her past with Oliver in a purely business way, and gives a bit of insight as to why she decides to be a temporary Watchtower, if Clark and Oliver will let her. There is no coincedence in the title- it's part of the my chess series.
2. Cure
My attempt at branching into the whole Friends with Benefits situation of Chloe and Oliver. It's a bit of a mixture of the two movies Love and Other Drugs and No Strings Attached, in the sense that Chloe and Oliver meet over Chloe trying to find a discreet doctor to do research for her meteor infection, and a very very playboy like Oliver Queen trying to find a good discreet physician for his Green Arrow wounds. They meet at Doctor Hamilton's practice in a very bizarre way and after bumping into each other another couple of times, begin a strictly sexual relationship. Which becomes a problem when Oliver's softer side develops.
The entire thing is from Oliver's playboy point of view, which I think is very entertaining at first. I honestly don't know if I'm going to get started with this story before I work on the smuttier parts of King or not. It's weird that I'm saying that I need a lot of practice with writing smut, but that's kind of where I'm at right now. I wrote a Halloween Chlollie smut one-shot called Impossible a while back as my first smut attempt, but I really want to make sure that I do the smut scenes correctly for King. That part is really important to me for some reason. And since I'm odd, nineteen years old, education and career driven to the point where I've never been in a relationship, and I'm waiting until marriage (yeah, we just got real personal), I have no sexual experience at all. So I'm kind of nervous about screwing up the smut scenes. I'm mostly working on Cure so that I don't get as nervous with writing King. If anybody reading this wants to help me out and give me feedback with how my first attempt ended up, read Impossible here, and leave a comment below in this entry!
3. (500)
So maybe I've been getting a lot of ideas from movies I've seen in the past couple of years. This one is based off of the movie 500 days of summer. 500 is a very Lollie beginning centric fic. It starts off with Lois breaking up with Oliver and him not really knowing what happened, since he thought he was managing the whole corporate life/Green arrow secret/girlfriend thing pretty well. He spends a large percentage of this multi-chapter fic reflecting over his relationship with Lois and trying to see how he got to this point, until he finally gets over her and realizes that there's this cute, spunky blonde who has been there by his side the entire time.
4. Bishop
The third multi-chapter part of the Chessboard series which deals with Oliver's depression after Chloe leaves. I wanted to see Oliver more depressed than he actually was, and I wanted to see him depressed over Chloe. I didn't want him to ask his assistant if CLARK called- when in doubt, I wanted the name Clark to be some sort of code word for Chloe between him and his assistant in some way. I don't know, maybe off screen, Chlollie had a sense of understanding with Oliver's assistant because they had sex in his office at some point, and his assistant knew how much they cared for each other, and knew that he revealed his identity because something happened. I'm rambling, but there are little tid-bits that I would like to explore. Like why the hell Oliver Queen started taking the subway. And what on earth happened to Mia Dearden's training after Oliver got depressed. Things like that. But this will be completely different from Erase, and completely different from 5.
5. Anti-Life
At the end of Season 9, I believed that Darkseid was going to be the new baddie because of Granny Goodness and Oliver's kidnapping. I thought that Chloe would sacrifice herself to get Oliver out of the doomed Apokolips, and that Oliver would go insane enough to work with the Suicide Squad to get her back. And that they needed to figure out the anti-life equation in order to do so. I didn't know that Watchtower was going to be replaced by Tess, and thought that everything was going to be incredibly dark, that Oliver was going to be willing to move Heaven and Earth to get Chloe back. That's what I'm going to be exploring in this fic, as well as a lot of darkness.
Here's what I mainly need you guys to do now- choose which story you'd like to see first in the five. Which one should I work on first, and which one of my current stories are you looking forward to? Feedback would be awesome, and so would support. I'll be back for good in no time, you guys!
-CS