The Lion and the Mouse

by fadi254

Slash!In my mind I'd imagined my body bloody or broken, limping across the arena with tears streaming down my pitiful face, desperately searching for Katniss to save me. Being the worthless boy my mom tells me I am I didn't think I'd be the one doing the saving, and especially not a Career. That was when I realized I could be important to someone. And my heart couldn't let that go.

Uh Ok

[First is first, readers who haven't read the original story, I lost my email to my previous account so I'm actually continuing The Lion and the Mouse from the original story of the same name. If you read further you'll see I'm not sure whether to re-write the story (or at least make it better) or start off from the latest chapter of the original account's story. So I recommend waiting until an update of this story so you can see what I decided (I don't want you to have to read similar stories twice!)]

So I'm in Texas right now [1/4/2014], on an actual vacation, and there's no telling how much free time I will get when I get back to school. Not to mention I need to reread The Hunger Games so I can refresh my memory because it's been so long.

But nevermind that—I'm actually back and that's what's important because my heart truly goes out to all of you that took the time to review (I'm not even finished because I both get too bashful reading them so I need to take them in small doses and I internally bash myself on the head for writing a story without any direction (because now I'm gonna have to reread it to get a clear view of where it needs to go, and that is especially difficult considering I'm very hard on myself and think my writing is cr*p).

Regardless, I want to finish it with a more mature writer's mind and an actual outline for the story, and I want to make this a reliable, periodic thing rather than a two-chapters-in-one-week-and-then-a-month-long-break type of thing.

I lost the email to my previous account so there's nothing I can really do to the previous chapters of this story, except copy-paste them or rewrite them, but I know I'd end up rewriting them either way because I don't like how it's written. I thought about doing that but then I thought wouldn't it be redundant for my returning readers to be reading material that's so much similar to the first thing they read from me? And then I thought, it's probably been so long they don't remember much so it would be okay, right? AND THEN I THOUGHT, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE READERS THAT READ IT FOR THE FIRST TIME BECAUSE THOSE WILL PROBABLY ONLY SEE MY REVIEW FOR THE OLD ACCOUNT AND THEN THEY'D HAVE TO REREAD THE WHOLE THING—BASICALLY—SO—

you tell me.

I won't get started writing immediately as I have to finish rereading [1] my story so far, [2] finish rereading the Hunger Games, and [3] finish making an outline of my story.

Until number [3] I hope someone tells me whether I should rework the previous chapters or start from the end of the last chapter…

Thanks,

Fadi