It only took me something like a year
of on and off writing (more off than on. to be honest) but I finally
have a draft that reaches the epilogue I'd written years ago.
I'm in a bit of a victorious daze, so
this post might not be the most coherent, but I need to mark the
occasion in some way.
Here's some random info about the
draft:
= I've broken up the AtO draft into 5
separate documents which range from 500-1000ish KB in size.
= Characters I've contemplated death
scenes for while drinking tea- Kakashi, Sasuke, Danzo, Itachi, the
Naras, Naruto... do villages as a whole count for this? I'm not sure.
(I won't tell you who I've actually killed off)
= I totally abused the add comments
function. So the side of my draft word document are filled with
yellow boxes.
= Sometimes I could finish up to 3
chapters in a week and other times it would take more than a month to
write out a single chapter.
And here's some Plot things I can
tell you:
= Harry travels,
drinks and does stupid things. Mostly, he does stupid things.
= There's no
animagus Harry- which seems to be a thing that people ask about a
lot.
= Also Harry and
Itachi do not become a couple- which is another thing that's
frequently brought up.
= Harry doesn't
learn how to use swords. So he does not become a master swordsman.
= In that vein,
Harry does not become a ninja. Or a samurai. Not even a monk. Or a
Daimyo. Not a Kage either.
= There's no
Kaguya. She's interesting but she just doesn't fit into AtO.
I've already got a few plot paths that
I'm cutting out when I start editing because they lead to no where in
the story.
What about editing and updates?
I will edit and I will update.
I won't promise a schedule or a fixed
date on when I will update. It will happen when I can make it happen.
That's just how I am as a writer.
Polar.
P.S. I'm actually going to binge read
some old fanfics that have been on my to-read list for ages as a bit
of a celebration.
