The multi-chapter I am asked to update most often is 'be my heater, be my lover' and, for actual years, I have been totally promising to update it and never actually doing so. The last update was in January 2012. JANUARY TWENTY TWELVE. It is against my completionist nature to not finish things, but I've been struggling to find inspiration to continue it since then and, seeing as I promised so many people I would continue working on it, feeling such total guilt about it. But this is the problem with multi-chapters; it can be hard to keep a consistency throughout, especially if your updating is as sporadic as mine is. And a lot of my issues as a writer with this fic in general is that I'm basically a completely different person now then when I started it – that fic might as well have been written by a different human tbh. There are a lot of things I regret doing in the construction and plot of it that have impeded my ability to get back into it. If I were to do it again it would be very different.
But since so many people were kind enough to read it and enjoy it and leave me feedback, I would feel too awful if I just let it drop without a word, which is why I'm making this post letting everyone know that I will not be finishing it. Under the cut, for those interested, I'm going to talk a little bit about what I would have done with it had it been continued.
Part Five was going to be from Nate's PoV. Continuing with the themes of angst and porn, it would have featured Nate emotionally distancing himself from Dan post-threesome and sleeping with both a townie (female) and Serena while keeping it from Dan. Eventually that was going to lead to him and Dan having a big fight and then some angry sex and then the summer would end with everyone being even more fractured then they were before.
Part Six, the final part, would be from Dan's PoV and probably would've been a few weeks later, once everyone was back at school. All three of our kids would have missed each other terribly, Dan in particular feeling quite guilty about how he treated Serena and eventually going to great lengths make up with her and with Nate, at which point one of the three of them would raise the idea of three-way dating. And then it would end pretty happily, because I am really very bad at unhappy endings.
I hope that helps a little? I am genuinely sorry about not continuing it, but it's just not in me anymore.
I will still be working on 'without a key' and 'the age of dissonance.'
But since so many people were kind enough to read it and enjoy it and leave me feedback, I would feel too awful if I just let it drop without a word, which is why I'm making this post letting everyone know that I will not be finishing it. Under the cut, for those interested, I'm going to talk a little bit about what I would have done with it had it been continued.
Part Five was going to be from Nate's PoV. Continuing with the themes of angst and porn, it would have featured Nate emotionally distancing himself from Dan post-threesome and sleeping with both a townie (female) and Serena while keeping it from Dan. Eventually that was going to lead to him and Dan having a big fight and then some angry sex and then the summer would end with everyone being even more fractured then they were before.
Part Six, the final part, would be from Dan's PoV and probably would've been a few weeks later, once everyone was back at school. All three of our kids would have missed each other terribly, Dan in particular feeling quite guilty about how he treated Serena and eventually going to great lengths make up with her and with Nate, at which point one of the three of them would raise the idea of three-way dating. And then it would end pretty happily, because I am really very bad at unhappy endings.
I hope that helps a little? I am genuinely sorry about not continuing it, but it's just not in me anymore.
I will still be working on 'without a key' and 'the age of dissonance.'