Afterword

In the closing hours of 2010, seeing this story come to the end of its long road to completion makes it worth all the effort I have put into it over the past year. While it took only 10 days to cycle all the chapters through a processing and uploading phase, it took far longer than the time that takes place in my story to have planned, drafted and finally write this story.

As some readers might have guessed, all these chapters were written well in advance of the first upload date, which explains my rapid update time. This was wholly intentional due to a policy I implemented some time ago. Having failed three times in writing a story of equal size to its completion, when I originally approached this idea in November 2009, I was very cautious in jumping in without planning ahead, fearing a repeat. Instead, I took Project 142 (the title of the project itself) on a new path of extensive planning before writing.

Planning took place in December 2009; where I researched my original question "what if Ami's mother found out about Ami's identity?" and expanded the idea into a much larger story. That planning in hindsight was far more vital than I had expected, having helped me avoid similar a fate of stories I have read that were great in idea, but lacking in story or completion. After writing a draft of 10 pages outlining the events I wanted and how I wanted it, in February 2010, I started to work on this story, wholly with an intention of writing a light 12 Chapter, 100,000 word story which I only hoped would take 8 weeks.

I was optimistic however and throughout 2010, a combination of life events and concern over the quality of the story I was writing transformed it into a 20 chapter, almost 200,000 word story. As Author, I can say with frank honesty I am pleased with this work and it had given me new thoughts about where I should go with fan fiction in the future. Having completed this first one, as well as completing one of this size and complexity, has renewed my interest in working towards projects of this kind.

I hope you have enjoyed reading this story.

Nighthawk_Imac

Project Timeline

Project 142/S11 Commenced: 16/11/2009

Summary Draft Completed: 05/12/2009

Chapter 01: Started 08/02/2010, Finished 09/02/2010, Uploaded 21/12/2010
Chapter 02: Started 10/02/2010, Finished 11/02/2010, Uploaded 21/12/2010
Chapter 03: Started 11/02/2010, Finished 14/02/2010, Uploaded 22/12/2010
Chapter 04: Started 15/02/2010, Finished 17/02/2010, Uploaded 22/12/2010
Chapter 05: Started 17/02/2010, Finished 20/02/2010, Uploaded 23/12/2010
Chapter 06: Started 21/02/2010, Finished 24/02/2010, Uploaded 23/12/2010
Chapter 07: Started 24/02/2010, Finished 26/02/2010, Uploaded 24/12/2010
Chapter 08: Started 26/02/2010, Finished 03/03/2010, Uploaded 26/12/2010
Chapter 09: Started 09/03/2010, Finished 20/03/2010, Uploaded 26/12/2010
Chapter 10: Started 20/03/2010, Finished 24/03/2010, Uploaded 26/12/2010
Chapter 11: Started 24/03/2010, Finished 26/03/2010, Uploaded 26/12/2010
Chapter 12: Started 26/03/2010, Finished 23/04/2010, Uploaded 27/12/2010
Chapter 13: Started 23/04/2010, Finished 26/04/2010, Uploaded 28/12/2010
Chapter 14: Started 02/08/2010, Finished 07/10/2010, Uploaded 28/12/2010
Chapter 15: Started 05/10/2010, Finished 10/10/2010, Uploaded 29/12/2010
Chapter 16: Started 27/10/2010, Finished 30/10/2010, Uploaded 29/12/2010
Chapter 17: Started 30/10/2010, Finished 02/11/2010, Uploaded 30/12/2010
Chapter 18: Started 02/11/2010, Finished 02/12/2010, Uploaded 30/12/2010
Chapter 19: Started 03/12/2010, Finished 08/12/2010, Uploaded 31/12/2010
Chapter 20: Started 08/12/2010, Finished 10/12/2010, Uploaded 31/12/2010

Chapter Certification and Upload process Started: 20/12/2010

Chapter Certification and Upload process Finished: 31/12/2010

Project 142/S11 Concluded: 31/12/2010