Shattered Dream (Raura)

Footnote

Title: Shattered Dream
Footnote
Original Post Date: 03/09/2014

Story Note:
Well guys, that's all she wrote. I hope you enjoyed it! And I hope that you now forgive me for putting you through such heart ache.  Did you think it was a nightmare (chapters 2-4)? I hope not lol. I was trying to be very mysterious about that but yet there are a few cryptic hints here and there (such as the first paragraph of chapter 3). Let me know what you thought. What's your favorite part? Mine is Chapter 4.  I could have continued on and on with that chapter but I had to stop it at some part so some of the original thoughts I had for it are, as they say, on the cutting room floor but I still think it turned out great. It was one of those rare times that I couldn't emotionally detach myself from my writing.

Thanks to everyone reading this story and my other one as well. Your kind comments make me want to continue to write. :D  A special shout out to:

Cuppicakes
justafan0015
Kattorific_Raura
lolicookies
NeonShoeStrings
soph2123

Your comments always make me happy!

Inspiration:
It's hard to say what inspired this plot to begin with; it just came to me one night. It started out really small, a single thought: Ross on tour, he has a nightmare and can't get in touch with Laura. So I guess you could say that the fact they are now on tour kind of sparked the idea. At first it was only going to be a short 2-3,000 word one-shot but once I sat down and started to write out the ideas it just grew and grew.

Why Am I Writing Another Story:
Okay, it's time for some explaining lol. I never really had a passion for writing. I have read fanfics for a while now and would occasionally get ideas of plots but hadn't really thought about going any further with the inklings in my mind. That is before this one little notion kept nagging and nagging at me until I sat down and let the thoughts flow out onto paper. That was when The Blossom was born. At first I only started to write the story for myself but I had this overwhelming desire to share it with others. I said from the beginning that it would be my only story.

Never EVER in my wildest dreams would I have guessed how addictive and consuming that one story would be in my life. There are days that I walk away from the story frustrated and defeated, ready to say "no more". Then there are days that I can't wait to read a chapter over again or start writing/re-writing the next chapter. It is an obsession that has grown and developed since that first day. But over the last couple of months these story ideas that are not part of The Blossom keep popping in my mind. They eat away at me, begging for the same attention that I have given my original story. I argue back and forth. Should I? Shouldn't I? Could I? Couldn't I? Yes . . . no . . . maybe. (lol I'm being a bit over-dramatic here but it is true that once my mind latched on these ideas, I couldn't shake them.) Soooooooo . . . . . . ta-da, here I am with another story being published :D.

Why am I telling you this?  I want to say to anyone listening that if there is something that inspires you, if there is something that you feel passionate about, if there is something that consumes your every waking minute then go for it and live your dream.  You may not succeed but if you don't at least try you will never know.

"And what about those other ideas" you may be asking. Well, we will just have to wait and see where they lead me.  I can't say that I will write another story while I'm still working on The Blossom but if something grabs me the way this story did then who knows maybe I will.

Scrittore (: