No the fic is not ending or going on hiatus lol
Hey everyone, sorry for my slow-ass upload schedule recently, I've been really struggling to find the time to write between school and just life things. I've been at somewhat of a crossroads with my writing recently, and began to really rethink my character writing and pacing in particular. Mainly, I was worried that my stories (this and my original one, which I have now deleted and going to rewrite) were not moving fast enough to gain an audience, a criticism that I think is definitely warranted. However, there is just far too much that I want to write about, especially in this fic. I'm trying, quite childishly I may add, to rewrite Naruto in it's entirety and that means that I have to lay the necessary groundwork for themes, worldbuilding, foreshadowing and power systems. To people who think the fic is moving slowly, I absolutely hear you and I understand the criticism. I am not going to blame anyone for tuning out, but I will hold to the fact that I believe that any retreading I've done so far will be to the benefit of the story in the future.
To be quite honest, this is more me projecting my own insecurities about my writing more so than responding to actual criticism I've received so forgive me if I sound like I'm shadowboxing here, because to a degree I am. The true problem about the fic recently is that I don't think my inconsistent writing schedule has been fair to anyone who appreciates my slow burn writing, or to those people, however few I don't know, who have been following my fic for a long time. That is why I've made this authors note:
I pledge that I will publish a new chapter of this story every Tuesday (American Time)
This is in writing now, because I feel I need to have something like this to motivate me and I'm gonna look like a real dumb dumb idiot if I type out my manifesto of Naruto fanfic (lmao) and still don't deliver on at least a single chapter. I publish this update in the interest of communication with anyone who reads this fic. I'm not going to e-beg for reviews or money or anything like that, all I ask is that you, as a reader, know that I, as the author, know I'm not publishing some magnum-opus fic by rewriting Naruto. This fic is conceptually nothing without me constantly putting into it, and I have not held up my end of that. Just know that I understand the failings that are tied both into the fic's concept and into my writing and that I'm going to do my best to beat them in the future.
If you are one of the five people that just read that and didn't think "wow, this dude cares too much about Naruto lmao", thank you. If you're anyone who's favorited, followed or kudos'd my fic, thank you. If you've ever left a review (which I read, even if I don't always reply), even if it was one tearing me up about some dumb thing I wrote, thank you. If you've followed the fic at all during the time I've been writing it, thank you. I get this may come off as pandering, because my fic really isn't that big at all, but I have never really imagined that I could ever have a place like this online. I have received so much great feedback and interacted with so many people who seem to generally like something that I've made (even if it's by definition derivative), and it makes me genuinely really happy.
That's it, sorry if I this comes off as sappy or pandering. New chapter coming soon, stay tuned or don't, I can't control what you do!