Whee, author's notes for Awakening. This'll most likely be updated with each new chapter, so keep reading this. Or don't, I don't care.
This thing's based on SSSC, btw, as I don't care for TSS nearly as much as I do SSS. You may or may not have read my list of grievances against it. ^_^
Basically, this fic is two fics in one. There's one, that happens in the 'present', and the other is kinda like the backwards episode of Seinfeld, where it starts at the end, and goes to the beginning. Only it'll only go as far as the 'present' thread of the fic goes. But make no mistake, it's pure filler, and will only be present in chapters where it needs to be. That's why there's none in chapter 3, btw...
'Mhaiera' is pronounced 'my era', with very heavy stress on the first syllable. Need to have that superfluous H do something, no? ^_^
Chapter 3 was a pain in the ass to write, from the second half of it or so on. It did not come easily, at all. And I even managed to horribly mangle Ghaleon (and probably Luna, and, hell, everyone else, too, most likely) some more in the process. Ah, well, get used to seeing me mangling him.
Let all ye be aware of the danger inherent in the phrase "It'll be done by Friday" and such similar things.
Chapter 3 is remarkably filler-free, due to the fact that the conversation between Ghaleon and Luna ran much longer than I originally anticipated. Both the 'past' storyline, and a flashback of Mia's were omitted from this chapter.
I have a nagging feeling I'm forgetting something I meant to add here, but, oh well, if it was important, I would have remembered. So be it, then.
Yeah, part 4 is short (and 50% filler), but that's my way of compensating for part 3 being so damn long. Live with it.
I kinda like part 5. The song Mhaiera sings is called Circular Dreamer, it's her image song (read as: me being really pretentious). However, I don't like it as much as I should, because I wrote most of it in about ten minutes. The last three lines, however, were nagging at me for a few weeks now, and are the 'oldest' part of the song.
From part 5 on, I've given up on naming the parts. I suck at it.
And then there's part 6. It shouldn't exist, really. This is one-hundred-percent pure filler material, existing only to seperate when <BEEEEEEEP> finds out about <BEEEEEEEP> from when <BEEEP> <BEEEEEEEP>. But at least it makes part 4 look long. ^_^ Oddly enough, I also had one hell of a time writing it, believe it or not, filler is hard to come up with sometimes. ^_^
Ah, part 7. I hate part 7. I did a terrible job on it, and it shows. Which is too bad, considering how... important the thing is, all things taken into consideration. It's really short, too. Dammit, who'd've thought that 9k is such a pain in the ass to get to?
I'm really, really, really sorry about part 8. I mean it. The vast majority of it was written while I was going, "Oh, no, I have to finish this tonight!". So I hate it, and cut out the usual filler. Whee.
I'm remarkably satisfied with part 9, but I'd bloody well better be, I've been over this one more than any of the others. And my god, I managed to squeeze a decent length out of it. Of course, I do still have my problems, but they're of a nitpicky nature that I hope, if they are noticed, will be paid little mind. ^_^
The end is nigh. Not night now, the end is here. My final notes are below, after a...
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And those are here. My original idea for Mhaiera at the end was to have her ask Alex to kill her, and have him oblige, but I realized that made little sense with what happened. Besides, I'm rather fond of her little suicide note.
Of course, Mhaiera was always quite dead at the end, it's the only thing that felt right for me to do to her.
But if you think that my killing the poor girl is enough to make me stop putting her through hell, than chortlechortlechortleHA to you. ^_^ I'll see how much of the sequel I can crank out by... what, next week, maybe I can get it in a submittable state by then. ^_^
I have a feeling like I'm forgetting something, but I can't remember it, so oh well...
And I'm sure my email address will be tacked onto this somewhere or other, but don't email me (or tell me what you think), I eat people.
*-LS-*
last edited 10/30/99, 2:15 AM