AtO Draft Update 3

When I first started this monstrous project of completing my draft for AtO, I had a clear and fixed idea of how many chapters I'd need to reach the epilogue.

But now, a couple hundred thousand words later, I have passed that expected chapter number and I still have a way to go to reach my epilogue. There's maybe an entire arc or so till the end? I'm not completely sure because things have diverged a lot from what I had planned.

Even with that unexpected increase in chapters, I'm super pleased with how much I've written out for AtO.

Now if I can tap into that same productivity when I begin editing, then I should be able to update AtO more than once this year. Wouldn't that be something?

Some of the things that have happened in the recent chapters of the draft

1- Harry gets injured. I'm still toying with how serious the injury and it's repercussions should be. But it makes sense to have Harry injured... for reasons.

2- The Uzumaki duo has become a trio. It shouldn't be too hard to guess who the third Uzumaki is. The circumstances of how they meet needs some fine tuning, but I'm pretty fixed on how they all interact with each other.

3- I've been quite determined to get Team 7 to do things so that I can justify them being on-screen so much. So I've been giving Sai and Sakura all sorts of things to do. Things that diverge from what they are shown to do in canon.

4- Harry has done some pretty awesome/crazy magic and impressed quite a few people and garnered someone's dangerous interest. The magic bits always makes me second guess how the plot should go though. I do like the idea of magic causing more problems, but how many problems is too many?

5- A whole lot of made-up Uzumaki history. Actually, just a whole lot of made-up history all around.

6- This is more of a confession- I still haven't put Kakashi into the draft. Everything that happens to him, happens off screen so that I don't have to write him. I will definitely try and change this while I'm editing.

Basically, the story has a whole lot of canon divergence, which shouldn't be so surprising. 

Harry causes all sorts of mayhem just by existing.

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