New year Resolutions

...at least for fan-fiction writing.

2011 was a productive year for me in terms of writing- both fan-fiction and especially outside of it.

First of all through the sheer amount of writing I've done (including Complicated Detour), my writing style has become very different. I have come to like and appreciate writing completely in the Third Person PoV- AtO is not completely Third Person PoV because I kept spelling out Harry's thoughts- something that's not as abundant in chapter 13 (and I like it that way).

So that'll be a bit jarring to readers- which means editing of old chapters later (which I'm not completely keen about- I tried editing an older chapter and the word count dropped dramatically. It's not bad- it's just extra work.)

Speaking of AtO, this year I broke the 1000 review mark- which is all sorts of awesome. But at the same time rather guilt-inducing sometimes considering my slow writing/updating. For some reason, my guilt makes me work on the ending chapters of AtO- which doesn't make any sense to me what so ever.

I've also met some awesome people through ffnet- who're always eager to discuss all sorts of crazy ideas with me when I just need a good non-serious distraction.

Anyway, my plans for 2012 are:

1-I will edit and finish my incomplete stories. (because they deserve better than being hidden away on my laptop)

2- I will get more than 5 chapters of AtO written this year. (Anything more is great- anything less is just sad.)

3- I will write a fan-fiction story completely in French. (A one-shot/drabble sounds doable)

4- I will review other people's stories more often. (I follow so many awesome stories but I always shy away from reviewing.)

5- I will finish a 100-theme challenge.

And I think that's more than enough for fan-fiction resolutions. Do you guys have any resolutions to do with fanfiction/hobbies?

Polar.

P.S. Happy New Year! I hope you have a wonderful time in the next year filled with prosperity, fun and better things.

Christmas Gift

“But think about it. No one's ever done it before and he'll be so thrilled...”

“No!” Hermione said immediately.

Harry frowned. “What?.”

Hermione rolled her eyes. “You're not buying Naruto a country, no matter how much spare gold you have.”

Harry looked at her incredulously. “I don't have that much gold.” He scratched his ear and cleared his throat. “The most I'd be able to afford with my gold, is a tiny village probably.”

“Harry!”

“What?” Harry looked entirely unapologetic. “He wants to be a leader. If he owns a village, he's automatically a leader.”

Hermione glared at him. “Just for that you'd destroy their economy and make people...”

Ron sighed and grabbed the mirror, making the image screen blur for a few seconds. “Now, now, Hermione, you do realize that Harry is kidding. Aren't you, mate?”

Harry sighed. “Obviously.”

“There, you see. Harry has not gone mad without us.” Ron looked at him. “So what were you really thinking of getting him?”

Harry smothered a grin. “Well, there's this travelling circus...”

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Going to be away from the computer for a few days, so I thought it'd be best to put something up to wish you all (if you celebrate X-mas, that is).

Hope you guys have fun this holiday season- no matter what you end up doing.

Polar

It's December!

Woohoo!

You have no idea how glad I am it's December. Why?

Loads of sweets. And I don't mean plain old chocolate or anything of that sort (nothing wrong with chocolate as it is)... I mean all sorts of sweets that I can't even name but will gladly stuff in my mouth in a fit of December induced happiness.

The sweets are the only thing that make December awesome to me. Because the family always deems December the perfect time to just steal your time whenever they can.

Unfortunately, they've sort of smarted up about my weakness to sweets.  I can never say no when they bribe me with sweets... I'm really too weak.

Anyway, all that being said, I'm not slacking on my writing. Since it's December I'll be actively working on chapter 13 (have to work out a few plot kinks/issues I found after reading what I had so far).

And since I haven't completed last month's writing challenge, I'll do that as well (hopefully it''ll be done within the first two weeks of Dec anyway)

You know, a few stories on my alert list that hadn't updated since Jan, actually updated over the past few days. And they were like my 'supah-fav' stories- the kind where you never quite forget what happened in the last chapter no matter how long it takes between updates! So that totally made December even more awesome for me already!

Polar.
P.S. Major spoiler of chapter 13- 'sake'. Take from that what you will- I'm sure you can't imagine what I've done with that. Even if you did, it's not like I'll confirm anything.