Okay. I know that I haven't updated in a little while with this story. Right now, my story New Blud has been beating up my brain around telling me to write about it.
So needless to say, I have been. Unfortunately, this has kept some of my other stories from updating and some of my readers ready to throw me over a cliff. (Which won't solve anything because then the story CERTAINLY wouldn't get finished.
But here is one more short chapter that I thought might appease some of you.
Here goes...
At 7:30 am, the alarm clock goes off, startling a very drowsy green archer. He gropes around blindly for the offending device before finally finding it and turning it off. After a moment of debate, he gets up- and after a nice, hot shower- he gets dressed and walks out of his room on the Watchtower to be scared out of his mind by a voice out of nowhere saying,
"Haven't talked to her yet, huhm?"
He spins around to see the faceless man. "Question! Quit doin' that. You know I'm not awake until I've had my cup of Joe."
"Should be alert ALL the time, Arrow."
"Yeah, well. Some of us aren't able to go six days without sleep."
"Will you answer the question?"
Green Arrow isn't quite sure whether Question is speaking in third person or if he actually means the noun 'question', but either way, it means the same thing.
He sighs. "No, Question. I haven't talked to the new kid yet."
"Why?"
"Why? First off, who names themselves after a super villain?"
"One who didn't know that there was one. And my research proves that the hero Mad Hatter was operating in Ireland long before the super villain Mad Hatter showed up here."
"Oh…" Arrow says, clearly not having been expecting that answer.
"The second reason?" Question prompts.
"I just got back from a mission last night."
"Alright," Question nods, before turning away. "Talk to her today," he adds walking off, leaving Arrow to stare after him and wonder what on Earth that was about.
SO...
I haven't had much experience writing for Arrow, as you may be able to tell. I'm sorry if he seems a little OOC. It is entirely my fault.
If you have suggestions for what you think he might say in place of something else, please PM me or put it in a review.
And if you do feel the need to correct my Green Arrow, it would be wonderful if you could give me some feedback while you're at it. It really would be appreciated.
Tell me what you like so far. What you don't. Do you like the POV? Hate it? What do you think will happen? Do you like the pace the story is moving at?
Your feedback helps me as a writer. That is why I joined fanfic.
If I wanted to write stories just to write stories, well...
That's what I have 6 storage boxes full of stories for. But the ones that I post are the ones I feel best express who I am as a writer.
So I post them and ask you guys to give me feedback to help me learn.
I'm not going to be like some writers that annoy the absolute daylights out of me with this little note at the bottom of each chapter:
"no updatez untl i getz 20 reviews :D 3 thankies"
That is irksome and proves that they don't so much worry about the reviews but about the number they get.
To me, reviews are not meant for competition. They are not meant to show off how 'awesome' I think I am to everyone else.
They are to help me improve and better find out what my audience enjoys reading.
To ease some of you guy's fears, I am not going to stop writing because I'm 'not getting enough reviews'.
The reviews are for my benefit and I'm not going to force you to write them for updates.
You all are not dogs that need to get a treat for doing a good thing.
Now that I've had my little rant, I'll finish with this. If you want to favorite or story alert one of my stories, that's awesome, and it makes me feel great. I smile every time I get a message that says one of you has done that. It's a great confidence booster. But if you don't review I can't know what you guys like about my writing and what you don't. Please, please. Leave me a review so that I can keep writing what you guys like and avoid what you don't.
~Kanae~
