Tango
I still can't quite believe it, but there it is... "Fortuna's Champion", the story I have worked on for several years (!) is now officially complete. :2jump: 
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I've put it up on my own site here: www.angelfire.com/poetry/tango and it is also available at Fanfic.net, here: www.fanfiction.net/~tango1 . It is technically a sequel to Book I of "The Outsiders", Eternity Broken, but it's a separate story that can just as easily stand alone.
Looking back on the process of writing it, I have to say that there were times when I heartily wished that this story would just go away. "Fortuna's Champion" survived two complete rewrites, one of which was prompted by comments from two perceptive people, Dixie and Juxian, who helped me to see that Ares' character needed work. Of course that meant some plot reshuffling and a great deal of agonising over scenes I just couldn't bring myself to cut -- but as Carl Sagan remarked about science, the greatest mistake is to fall in love with your own idea, no matter how attractive it is. So -- out went those scenes, and in came new ones.
So far it seems to have been well received, which is heartening -- it's a good feeling to know that I've actually managed to complete something this big (for me)!
:2jump: I've put it up on my own site here: www.angelfire.com/poetry/tango and it is also available at Fanfic.net, here: www.fanfiction.net/~tango1 . It is technically a sequel to Book I of "The Outsiders", Eternity Broken, but it's a separate story that can just as easily stand alone.
Looking back on the process of writing it, I have to say that there were times when I heartily wished that this story would just go away. "Fortuna's Champion" survived two complete rewrites, one of which was prompted by comments from two perceptive people, Dixie and Juxian, who helped me to see that Ares' character needed work. Of course that meant some plot reshuffling and a great deal of agonising over scenes I just couldn't bring myself to cut -- but as Carl Sagan remarked about science, the greatest mistake is to fall in love with your own idea, no matter how attractive it is.
So -- out went those scenes, and in came new ones.So far it seems to have been well received, which is heartening -- it's a good feeling to know that I've actually managed to complete something this big (for me)!