Q & A Session 5

Q1. Other than Naruto, Harry Potter, what other fandoms do you usually read fics from?

A. Is this a subtle ask for recs?

I actually don't read fics in the fandoms I write for. I spend so much time with my writing that when I read, I want something different, no more Naruto or Harry or Lucy. I wonder if other fanfic writers feel the same way.

Because of that I read in fandoms that I don't write in- The Hobbit, Worm, some Marvel, but I mostly read stuff after watching movies or TV shows and games.

Q2. You updated! Does this mean you've edited a big chunk or just this chapter? And if it's the first... can I ask if Kakashi got written out or not?

A. I've edited/revised only one chapter so that I could actually update AtO this year. I still have a lot of editing to do before any possible future updates.

Kakashi is around... as mentions most of the time and it's going to stay that way. He talks directly to Harry in a much future chapter but he'll never have too close of a connection/relationship to Harry.

One of the reviews I got for AtO 15 asked if Kakashi and Harry would be friends because Kakashi needs friends. And my reply to that is- Harry isn't obligated to become his friend. In fact, Harry shouldn't be able to make friends with everyone he meets. And I like the idea of Kakashi as an aloof acquaintance. 

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2016 Advent Calender Announcement- Accepting Prompts.

Yup, it's that time of the year again.

I'll be taking prompts for Advent 2016.

In case you're new around here, my advent calender is basically a countdown to Christmas where I post stories up until the 25th.The posts might be omakes or deleted scenes for AtO or just other stories. And I try and fill out prompts sent in.

You can find previous years' advents in these tags- AC2014, AC2015.

If you're sending in a prompt you can either leave a comment down below or send something in through the "Ask Me" page.

Right now, I'm not sure how many posts I'll have in total, the number will range from 12- 24 depending on how much I can get done in time.

General Info if you're sending in a prompt
= You can send a prompt for any fanfic I've written. Or just any fandom I'm in.

= Due to the limited amount of posts I can make, I won't be able to fill out every prompt sent it. And due to my own preferences, I will mostly choose general and interesting prompts to fill.

= For AtO specifically, I won't fill any prompts that could potentially be spoiler-y or show up in future chapters.

= I will be continuing certain omakes: A Change in Age, Behind the Scenes. So there's no need to ask for anything related to that.

See you around,

Polar

Chapter 15 A/N

Ugh, this chapter.

There was a lot of future plot things that I needed to set up in this chapter. And that was the biggest hurdle I had because I wasn't sure what route I wanted to take.

If you visited my blog over the past year or so- you know I decided to go crazy and write a rough draft of AtO till the final chapter. The draft is terrible and needs ruthless revising and editing but it helped me decide which plot points I liked better.

Speaking of editing, this chapter's editing was... an experience.

Maybe I was just super out of practice with editing AtO because it took embarrassingly long to get through even one page of this chapter.

On top of that I cycled between two different docs, one that I had written much earlier. So some conversations that are friendly in the earlier draft is completely different from what I wrote in the newer version of the chapter.

Having to read through and merge conversations was tedious but I think overall it came out rather well. If nothing else, I hope that my writing quality has improved and is more noticeable.

Now onto chapter specific notes- of which I don't really have a lot of.