Warriors: Frecklesky's Heart

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Before you read any further, I'd like you to tell me what exactly you didn't like about this story, and what you did like. Where can I improve, and where did I do well?

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Thank you for finishing Frecklesky's Heart.

This was really a fun and difficult story to write, as it's a far stretch from what I'm used to working on—seeing how the primary focus is romance and a temperamental main character. Frankly, I find myself to be awful at making unique personalities among my characters, and I'm even worse at writing characters interacting with each other, so if you have any tips for character interaction and diversity, please let me know!

I know for sure that this likely won't be the best story you've ever read, and in the future, I may rewrite it, though it's equally as likely that I may not. Truly, it depends on the feedback I receive and if I have the time to do so. There are a lot of loose ends and random side plots that either concluded too quickly or weren't dwelled on later on (such as Firewatcher & Fallowstep being upset, more suspicion over Frecklesky's disappearances, a genuine risk to the nightly meetings, Firewatcher's feelings, Larkstar going mad over her mother's death, etc.), and if I do rewrite this, these errors will either be fixed and fleshed out, or scrapped entirely. My writing process is a strange thing—sort of like creating art. Being a sloppy sketch with every idea thrown down, while the final product erases the rough sketch lines, but fine-tunes the good parts of it.

Additionally, I know how this story ended suddenly and on a sad note, but really, I'm a sucker for unhappy endings. If I do rewrite this, I'll likely add a little more to the ending to wrap things up a bit better. But, this is my last day being here for a long time. After all, tomorrow, I'm off to BMT! This the last you'll see of me for 2-3 months.

Fun Facts

- The starting season of the story changed a million times. First it was leaf-fall, then green-leaf, then leaf-bare, then leaf-fall again, and an endlessly churning cycle until I finally settled on green-leaf. I still find the wrong season/weather written here and there...

- In the original storyline, Fallowstep dies and sends Frecklesky on a frenzy for revenge. She meets Rachel, who helps her to come to terms with her grief. I felt as though this plot came too close to Silverjaw's Sorrow, so I made the war with ThunderClan less impactful without Fallowstep's death, and it comes off as more of a side plot than anything.

- Fallowstep had a vague prophecy from StarClan that warned her about Frecklesky's relationship leading to tragedy. She feared that her sister would be killed.

- Frecklesky bonds closely with Dreamfall and Hopeskip (the two kits ThunderClan gave to ShadowClan) as she struggles to accept Rachel's absence. She almost sees them as the kits they may have raised in the future.

- Frecklesky ended up mentoring Dreamfall, providing a whole new definition of "tough love" during her apprenticeship.

- Rachel did not go to StarClan. She's a wandering spirit, simply enjoying the wonders of the world as she did in life.

- Frecklesky dies a few years later to an infected wound, having wracked a number of scars after finding a violent pastime in fighting colonies of rats at Carrionplace.

- Frecklesky meets Rachel in death, but they don't stay together. Frecklesky wants to remain with her family in StarClan, and to be there for Fallowstep when she dies, too.