I can't lie, since everybody knows I made Gena a bitch in Crash Into Me. But I always felt bad for that, and in Lost I wanted things to be more real. So I'm portraying her the way that I see her. But I think people tend to make her a bitch because we hear bad things about her - like I've heard that she cheated on Zacky twice. Do I believe it? I don't know. What I DO believe is that she must be a nice person, otherwise he wouldn't have married her.
Anyway, I should be getting ready for class. Thanks again, hun!
That's exactly why I was writing a sequel - I didn't feel the story was completely finished. But I suppose, in a way, they never are. Regardless, I wrote a final chapter that tied things up as well as I could, and I'm leaving it at that. No point writing a sequel if I know I won't do well on it. And you're right - sequels are hard.
Now that Crash... is finished and just sitting on my hard drive, I do want to start something new. As much as I love working on Lost, it's nice to have something else to turn to on occasion. I have the second draft of an original fiction I've been working on since 2011, and the first draft for another original that I'd planned on posting on here (but that's not been going so well), but I feel the need to have another fan fiction. So I am thinking on it - I'm just not going to force myself into anything. I'll wait for the idea to come to me.
Um, wow. o.o Thanks so much for the story comment, love!
No, you're not the first to say it. But for the record, I've finished quite a few original novels in my time. I just didn't feel that any of them were good enough. I need to get to work on a second draft of one I'm hoping to get published, but we'll see what happens. Being published is definitely a dream.
And of course I'm going to say that you're better - because your stuff is absolutely amazing! I will...reluctantly admit that perhaps we're equals. Reluctantly, because I really do think you're better than me. And I long for the day that I'll walk into a bookstore and your name will look right back at me. XD
Anyway, hoping to see an update from you soon! I was actually thinking about it this morning, and wondering when one was going to come along.
I'm not...unsatisfied with the ending, per say. It's the ending that I've always had planned, even when I wrote the original version of this story, and it's done in such a way that...well, you can use your imagination to figure out what happens afterwards. So I could leave it like that. But the way I plan what happens afterwards is not what people would expect. Either way, I've been working on a first chapter of a sequel just to see how it works out, so there likely will be one.
You think their relationship is the underdog? I never saw it that way. =P And Gena...yeah, she's Gena. =/