poll results

The general consensus seems to be that I should at least write the epilogue to "Apartment Manager," and then possibly work on "Undertow."

Okay then.

Last night I started hashing out the plot for "The Guardian in Spite of Herself," since I knew more or less where I wanted to be at the end of the story but had very little idea of how to get there. I now have a few fixed plot points, but the story is still fairly fluid. Thank you for all your comments and your suggestions about what you'd like to see. I can't fit all of them in -- the story direction rules some of them out -- but I will keep them in mind.

I also took the snippets I wrote last spring and edited them into something approximating a first chapter. I'm not posting it, though, because it's still unfinished (and I want to make sure any hints and foreshadowing point in the right direction, which means I need a firmer plot).

I also have a few questions for those who know these things:

1. When, exactly, are Naruto and Sasuke's birthdays?

2. What does Sasuke call his parents during the flashback chapters? (The Japanese terms, please.)

3. What's the official term for the internal village police organization that the Uchiha ran? Does anyone know what became of it after the massacre? Was it an arm of the government, a private business, or something in between?

Thanks in advance!

*wanders off to fiddle with the epilogue and hope that the rain stops soon*

poll results

The general consensus seems to be that I should at least write the epilogue to "Apartment Manager," and then possibly work on "Undertow."

Okay then.

Last night I started hashing out the plot for "The Guardian in Spite of Herself," since I knew more or less where I wanted to be at the end of the story but had very little idea of how to get there. I now have a few fixed plot points, but the story is still fairly fluid. Thank you for all your comments and your suggestions about what you'd like to see. I can't fit all of them in -- the story direction rules some of them out -- but I will keep them in mind.

I also took the snippets I wrote last spring and edited them into something approximating a first chapter. I'm not posting it, though, because it's still unfinished (and I want to make sure any hints and foreshadowing point in the right direction, which means I need a firmer plot).

I also have a few questions for those who know these things:

1. When, exactly, are Naruto and Sasuke's birthdays?

2. What does Sasuke call his parents during the flashback chapters? (The Japanese terms, please.)

3. What's the official term for the internal village police organization that the Uchiha ran? Does anyone know what became of it after the massacre? Was it an arm of the government, a private business, or something in between?

Thanks in advance!

*wanders off to fiddle with the epilogue and hope that the rain stops soon*

I wonder if Spider Jerusalem's bowel disruptor might also be possible?

This worries me slightly. On the one hand, it could be seriously cool, but... humans don't have the world's greatest record when it comes to new technology. Still, imagine installing something like that in an OmniMax theater, which is already designed for maximum verisimilitude.

Humanity, turning science fiction into reality every day!

I wonder if Spider Jerusalem's bowel disruptor might also be possible?

This worries me slightly. On the one hand, it could be seriously cool, but... humans don't have the world's greatest record when it comes to new technology. Still, imagine installing something like that in an OmniMax theater, which is already designed for maximum verisimilitude.

Humanity, turning science fiction into reality every day!

[Fic] "The Way of the Apartment Manager" epilogue -- Naruto

And here is the promised epilogue of "The Way of the Apartment Manager," in which Iruka is uncomfortably perceptive, Kakashi continues to sneak up on people, Naga is used as a threat, Yukiko pretends to juggle, and the author throws in another OC as a reminder that this is a divergent universe and there were more than nine students in Naruto's academy class. Also, the author clearly needs to get some saltwater taffy before her obsession gets out of hand. :-)

( Apartment Manager epilogue )

There. I have now officially and completely finished a novel. Granted, it's only 75,000 words (I haven't done an exact wordcount for several chapters, but it was averaging 4,300 words per chapter and it's 17 chapters plus a 1,700 word epilogue, so... 74,000, approximately?) which is a fairly short novel, but still. It's a novel. I can write novels.

*dances*

Tell me if anything about this feels off, truncated, or rambly, please. I'd like to get it up on ff.net soonish, so I can put COMPLETE in the story summary. I really want to see that.

[Fic] "The Way of the Apartment Manager" epilogue -- Naruto

And here is the promised epilogue of "The Way of the Apartment Manager," in which Iruka is uncomfortably perceptive, Kakashi continues to sneak up on people, Naga is used as a threat, Yukiko pretends to juggle, and the author throws in another OC as a reminder that this is a divergent universe and there were more than nine students in Naruto's academy class. Also, the author clearly needs to get some saltwater taffy before her obsession gets out of hand. :-)

( Apartment Manager epilogue )

There. I have now officially and completely finished a novel. Granted, it's only 75,000 words (I haven't done an exact wordcount for several chapters, but it was averaging 4,300 words per chapter and it's 17 chapters plus a 1,700 word epilogue, so... 74,000, approximately?) which is a fairly short novel, but still. It's a novel. I can write novels.

*dances*

Tell me if anything about this feels off, truncated, or rambly, please. I'd like to get it up on ff.net soonish, so I can put COMPLETE in the story summary. I really want to see that.