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looks she's wearing all white !
The StartSo where did this crazy idea come from ? Well when I came back I wanted to do a Halloween novella about an Angel lost in NYC while on her way to the party. It starts to rain so she hides under an awning where she meets a Demon who seduces her and takes her back to his place.
Surprise ! The Angel was Sofia's Halloween costume and Tomas is a Demon. Then I realized this made a better Clierro story, so I had to make the costumes fancy.
What's a fancy Angel costume ? A feather cloak instead of wings. A fancy Devil costume? All black everything !
Then . . .I was like what if there really were Angels and Demons living in NYC. I suddenlyhad this image of a single Angel with Demons walking around her and I had no idea why.
The Inception
Chapter 1
I imagined this story as three chapters. Featuring a brooding and gentle Demon and a young naive Angel. The first chapter is exactly the same sans the scar that was added last.
Chapter 2
The Demon follows the Angel to the Angel Sancturay to see the Angel Mother. They get stuck in traffic and walk across the Brooklyn bridge and he decides to take her to lunch. He marvels at how little she knows about the outside world. There is a bit of supurnatural but a whole lot of etheral clean romantic stuff. Throughout the weekend he starts to fall in love with the Angel (he shows her modern life and what not)
Chapter 3
On their last night together he steals her away from dinner and they sleep together. He reveals that he knows the Angels are really the reason Father is sick and that he has poisoned all the other Angel's dinner, causing all the Angels to die except her.
The Angel (who is sweet, quiet and bubbly with dark hair and blue eyes) reveals that the basket of apples she took to St. Lilths were poisoned and that all the Demons have died while he was with her. (Which is why Paris takes the apple in the first chapter but doesn't eat it.)
So here they are the last two of their kind, unable to reproduce and must decide if they will kill each other or themselves. Or go off together.
Then it just ends
Well I crawled out of that dark tunnel and stepped back.
The hardest thing for me to let go was that the Angel had black hair and blue eyes , but I felt another black haired heroine was to repetitive. I mean I really did NOT want her to be brunette. . . then I saw Miranda Kerr.
The Story
So in the Inception version the Angel has a dagger and I was like "Hmm, an Angel with knives" that's different I should make that a weakness for the races.Then I started thinking about love stories between superiors and subordinates (wink wink), then I was like what if the sweet Angel wasn't sweet. Then I thought about a Female!Fierro. I wanted Sera to have a lot of hate hence the "horn-eating" scene.
Okay, characters are kind of a check. What about plot ? Well. . . writing a mystery was fun, so I did that again. I looked over the first chapter. I mean Father was dying I could figure that out, oh and the snowfires I can work with that too.
So I had two (unnamed) characters who were going to solve a mystery about snowfire apples. I have no recollection of how I came up with the daemons being vampire expys. It's all a blur. So I wrote out the first three chapters.
Then I was like "LiLe this is starting to look like a Paranomral Romance" So I decdied this would be a PR told in reverse. And what does every PR since Twilight need ? A human love interest ! That is where Isobel Charter came in so I had to rewrite the first few chapters to accommodate her.
. Think about it this way
For years Isobel Charter has been obsessed with the strange mark and the stranger who saved her father's life. When her best friend mysteroiusly died Isobel finds herself thrust into a world of dark desire, an ancient war and murder.
She meets the dark and mysterious Paris Prince who isn't what he seem and soon her heart and her head are locked in a battle with fate, monsters and maybe love ?
Then of course I was like what is this PR missing ? A LOVE TRIANGLE !! WOOO
So I played around with that. I could go on and on about the things I was going to do but didn't.
One Month ?
I had such a clear idea of what I wanted to do so I just wrote short chapter after short chapter and I said to myself. . . why not ? Why not see if I can finish it ? Sure I was in the mental trenches for a LONG time before writing anything down, but I don't know. . . It just happened.
Let's Give LiLe Something To Blog About
So much to talk about. I'll take the NAF stuff after I post the first chapter.
It seems like The White Queen was going to be kind of scintillating, was that the purpose?
Um if by scintillating you mean smexy then yes. Why is that ? Because the reason Victor kidnaps Clara and calls her his White Queen is because she is a virgin So basically the firstchapter would have ended with Clara and Mr. F doing it, thus making Clara useless to Victor. . . and then what do I do for the rest of the story ? I mean if I even played it out it would be a story all about someone trying to have sex with Clara and that just wasn't going to work.
Which character do you regret the most ?
Um Terri, Gracelyn, Adam. *sigh* basically the middle of SA. If I could have the ovaries of SHV and rewrite it. . . I would. . . but I just can't. I like how odd it is. . . but I don't.
Which character do you miss the most writing ?
Well, I never stop writing them. You just never see it.
What are Lile's favorite scene, characters, moments and or lines. I'd really like to know what stands out to her.
I have to say JNRR cause it was the first time I planned and plotted out the whole thing.
So I have posted some more HOF. I uploaded it a while ago so who knows what craziness is in there.
Read at your leisure. I do make one clever joke . . .
TDOLL : HOF 6 7/8 and 9/10
P.S Clara and I rewrote parts of chapter 9. . . yes you read that right.

ReplyDeleteYou can have my ovaries, if I can have your brain for mystery !
This post made me nostalgic, because I can remember when all I did was think and think about Veritas. It was the first time I’d ever really planned or wrote a cheat sheet for myself. It’s always fun gettin hit with a new inspiration. I am seriously waiting for something brand new to fall into my brain.
Sidenote: I think Ms.3rd wave would kill me.
Hey, you still have HMLIS before you get any new ideas.
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ReplyDeleteI really love Lux, I really did. Like I can’t believe it’s over, it happened so fast. But I would have loved to see that Halloween story.
me too, to bad it was never typed out.
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ReplyDeleteWhich character do you miss the most writing ?
Well, I never stop writing them. You just never see it.
This is amazing to know !
*resists urge to ask what it is about*
DeleteSometimes I tinker. . . with things and ideas.
DeleteHey! So, I'm a little confused by exactly what is going on in this post and in those chapters, but it seems cool and I had no idea you were so funny. Sorry to be a noob, but hopefully I'll get with the program. Also, Miranda Kerr is gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the darkside we have cake !
DeleteCan we discuss how spot on and totally marketable (circa 2010) that Isobel-centric synopsis for Lux is as a PNR ? I think putting the PNR in reverse was genius.
ReplyDeleteIt REALLY did not start out that way. It was just a good way to set up the standard girl-meets-paranormal boy. (which in this story is the red herring)
DeleteEven from the first chapter I never thought of Sera as young and naive, though. Maybe it’s because of Paris’ perception of her as evil and stuff.
ReplyDeleteThis is true. Looking again I did change some things to make her colder.
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ReplyDeleteOoh, techincally we got more LiLe writing about LL from that new Clierro section. So sad to see Lux go and can’t wait for NAF ! (;
Yeah, see. I have literally no idea what this comment says. Whole new language.
Deletelol at “so, not the lambo”. I’m guessing Fierro has a Ford Focus for when he just wants to chill and blend in.
ReplyDeleteMaybe a Cadillac or Volvo ?
DeleteAll of this commentary is pure gold. I cackled at these bitches be drunk. Mostly because they do drink ALOT.
ReplyDeleteThis bitch may have been drunk when I wrote this.
DeleteOh, one thing I wanted to know was how did you come up with the tailoring thing for the Demons ?
ReplyDeleteLooking at HOF, wouldn’t it be crazy if Victor and Lucie just possessed Fierro and Clara’s body ? I mean they don't like Clierro anyway so why not take their bodies and leave Clierro locked up in a cellar somewhere when they aren't using them.
ReplyDeleteWow, that would make some good Fanfiction. Actually I could probably work with that . . .
DeleteI’d honsetly like to know what “etheral clean romantic stuff is from Gen 1 of Lux Aerterna
ReplyDeleteWell . . . I never wrote past chapter one of the original plan so none of that got written. I tried to write a quirky scene in a cafe but I hit a wall. I think the closest thing still in LAE is when Paris fixes Sera's dress.
DeleteIs the unfortunate implication from HOF about how those kidnapped girls were found in the basement ?
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DeleteMy favorite joke:
ReplyDeleteYeah, I mean why can’t she just accept that she’s being possessed and will be forever. Why does she have to try and “runaway” and “save herself”
This was a house of illusions and we were the main attraction.
ReplyDeleteThis should be the HOF tagline
Are we going to discuss the NAF cover reveal or .... ?
ReplyDeleteYes ! It happened. I had the image for a LONG LONG LONG time. I'm not even sure it's fair so say it's related to the story.
DeleteI freaking love that Tomas shows up. I was going to say the same thing ! lol!
ReplyDeleteOkay, in one of the next chapter Mr. F gets a Tomas-style one liner.
DeleteI for one would honestly love to hear you go on and on about the things you wanted to do.
ReplyDeleteUm. Well I did want Sera's motive for helping Paris to be that she wanted to be The Angel Mother's Guardian.
DeleteIn this version a former Demon solider (without his tounge and castrated and what not) has been given the task of protecting the Angels. I wanted to use this idea to explore why Sera was training to fight and why she is so clever. She thinks Angels should protect Angels
In the end I decided to cut down on characters and have The Demon Father be her mentor and teacher and her hatred for Demons be her motivation.
Speaking of which Sera's backstory was written into the chapter where Paris kisses her. I took it out for plotting reasons (between the "where are your wings" question and "revealing Sera was the haughty Angel" I was like she would be dead by now. So I cut out her backstory.
That's it
You're cute.
ReplyDeleteHave you picked up on something yet . . .
DeleteDoes Ms. 3 come back up again ? I like her.
ReplyDeleteYes, yes she does.
DeleteWow, one of the amazing things I'm getting from TDOLL is all the thought that goes into each character and their motivations. It's always fun to see that you know more about the characters (especially about Fierro) than is in the story.
ReplyDeleteDo I ? Do I ?
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