Author has written 9 stories for Ouran High School Host Club. Welcome! “The Last Straw,” or what has become my Ouran Soap Opera, was meant to be a short story and has taken up a life of its own. All stories are rated T with lots of language. All are complete except the last one. To reduce confusion, the list of stories in order is below. They must be read in this order. 1. The Last Straw 2. The Last Straw: Continuing Stories 3. The Learning Curve 4. The Next Phase 5. The Way Forward 6. The Challenges Ahead 7. The Painful Truth (In progress) “The Last Straw Trilogy: Lemons” can be read at any time. It’s the M rated companion that allows me to keep the rest rated T. It’s been way too long since I posted to this one. I’m currently considering a refocus that would contain not only the fantasies, but the ‘fade to black’ scenes from the main stories. It might be a while. I’m not good at smut, and don’t want to post junk. My story “My Dad’s Wife” is completely unrelated to “The Last Straw” universe. It’s a standalone plot bunny that grabbed a hold and wouldn’t let go. It will never have a sequel. Bit of history about my writing and my Dad’s involvement… “The Last Straw” is the first fiction I’ve ever written, so it’s rough. At one point, the plot got away from me. In RL, that’s when my mom died. As Dad and I were grieving, I started talking to him more about my story. (Mom always wanted to be an author, and Dad thought she would have been proud.) Next thing I know, I’m talking to him about plot and reading him every chapter before I publish. We’ve evolved into a writing team where we come up with major plots and arcs together, I write the outline, we discuss more, then I write the chapters and read them to him. He’s basically become my partner and beta, and I couldn’t do it without him. He's never seen the anime (and neither of us have read the manga). I’ve shown him clips so he can visualize the characters. I think my writing and our plotting have both gotten smoother, but I still have trouble wanting to write every little scene in their lives, so my chapters are long. If you tried “The Last Straw” and were disappointed in it being loose and maybe a little sloppy, please keep going. They get better. Pinterest board: I created a Pinterest board for the soap opera. It’s got subboards for the different characters and events (vacations and balls) I’ve written. Here’s the address. Pinterest[.]com[/]MollyMuffinHead[/]fanfic-soapopera[/] (remove the brackets) Or just search for my user name (MollyMuffinHead) and then look for the board name (fanfic-soapopera) There really isn’t much in the way of spoilers in there unless you look in the ‘Tokyo To Do’ one or in an event that hasn’t happened. I still don’t think it will spoil much of the plot. It’s basically inspiration for each character and the story as a whole. But when I describe an outfit, I don’t have to post the entire link in the author comments anymore, I can just direct you to the subboard. |