The supergirl of smallville

If you guys want to have more of SG messing with history, then you have a biggie to play with in October, the Missile Crisis (Oct 1962). I'd think Lana would definitely ruffle feathers interfering with the U.S. and Soviet Union. Another good chapter, playing the different story themes well.

A couple of things,

1) any update on the next chapter?

2) I can't read the old stories anymore in the link that was hosting all the old stories from the old storybank. Is there anywhere online where I can read the complete collection?

Theres a lot of them missing still.

Rich wrote: Theres a lot of them missing still.

This actually seems to be a problem the storybank has with formatting. A few stories are there but have a seemingly dead link. Maybe it was caused by someone's attempt to fix formatting errors in the reseeded stories. I can only guess here, but I had a similar problem when editing an already posted story and fats mentioned some problems with MS Word in regards to that.

Anyway things are going to get better on that front

The stories have been reseeded and tagged, so they can be easily accessed here .

So it's been quite sometime since we were updated on the adventures of Lana (For me still the best ongoing story in the Library) So my obvious questions is when is the next chapter coming??

*bump

Thanks for the kind words and interest Rich. It has been over six years since April of 2007 when Argo and I first decided that we would collaborate on the first team workshop ever. He had a couple of ideas, but the one he liked the best was a Story about Clark losing his powers to Lana when they were toddlers and then Clark finding out later that he should have been the Super one. I was slow to warm up to it, but then we just started to have a flight of ideas on this one. Better to do the power transfer in Junior High so that Clark would immediately be aware of the loss but would have no idea what happened. Lana could keep her powers secret for a while as she learned how to use them which would really keep Clark off balance. Did she take his powers from him, or was she from the stars as he was?

Six years and over 100,000 words later (98K of which have been published) we have weaved quite a tale. It had originally been planed for about 18-20 chapters, but we kept coming up with new ideas and more chapters. To get to the place that we would like to end up will take at least another 6-8 chapters. We have commissioned about 30 plus illustrations from TGK and have published like 25 of them.

And there in lies the problem. This has been a huge undertaking, and most of the weight of the work of writing has fallen on Argo. My part has been to come up with ideas and I do rough drafts of scenes especially action ones which he cleans and punches up and integrates with his own ideas. He is truly a fabulous wordsmith when it comes to dialog but he is also somewhat of a meticulous perfectionist whereas I tend to be more of a sloppy, Get er done type of writer.

I have had a very rough last year due to personal, work related and medical issues, most of which are now resolved. I don't think the past year has been very kind to Argo either. We last worked on this in May of 2012. Much of chapter 26 has been written and I have a fair amount written on chapter 27.

You only have so much free time that you can use towards writing, and you have to be in the mood to do it. TSOS can be like having to carry a large boulder up a long steep hill, and knowing that you still have a long way to go makes it hard as well. And you can get bored doing the same thing over and over again.

I was a little upset with myself for the way I finished Turnabout. I had the ending plotted out for years, but I just could not get off my ass to complete it. Finally, I decided that I would just get it finished and get if off my back. As I look back on it, I wish that I had taken a little more time to punch it up and polish it a little more. I think I speak for Argo here in that there is no way we would ever want to drop the quality of the work on TSOS just to finish it. Better never to write another word than to ruin it. If he is ever in the mood to work on it again, I would be happy to help him provided I am in a position to do so.

Summer is a good time for me to write here in Phoenix as the Snow Birds are all gone, and it is too damn hot to do much outside. I started back to work a couple of weeks ago on a project with DKC. I have had the artwork from TGK for over a year which is embarrassing. Hopefully, I will get some time this weekend. I need to go into work after I finish this, but I should have plenty of writing time tomorrow.

Maybe we will get back to this in the future, maybe not, but I hope we do as I have a six year old TGK Illustration for chapter 26 that I have been dying to show.

Ace

Keep at it. Supergirl is a story that deserves an ending. I am not going to lie and say its my favorite story on here, but its an intresting take on the idea, and you do a good job of showing the kind of idea of growing heroism and someone trying to do well with what she has. Its good fan fiction and i always thought the artwork was wonderful. You managed to make smallvile a place which is something i don't think they always did on tv shows and movies, and make lana a very human character which is probabbly its best part.

I know writing can be a road- i have that much to do!! but its good road if you let it. So much free time so much effort, but keep at it. your a 100,000 words in-but you already wrote it. Each word can be a seperate line a symphony and it can be a lot of fun writing stories of rommance and derring do. You may know what chapters 26 is about damm if it doesn't suprise you wne its done.

So good luck and if it takes you five more years go for five more years.

Castor

Such a shame this story didn't carry on, it's still for me one of the best stories on the site.

Yeah, I really miss this one as well.