Author's note

These are never good, I know

I've now been on this site, both as a reader and as a writer, for months now, (though would be hard to know how many, mainly due to a progressive loss of memory I've been having, but that's my problem so don't want to bore you with it), and a very important thing I've learned from interacting with different authors as well as reading about the development of different fics is to never play the crowd-pleaser. If one wants to write a story, it should be the story you hope to write, no matter what everyone thinks. If you want to write an angsty story, write an angsty story. If you want to write the yaoiest BakuDeku ever to be conceived on this side of the internet, go ahead. If you want to write one-shots, then do that.

And this story fells on the latter. I've spent hours each week in front of 2 paragraphs for a chapter I don't want to write. This story started as a one-shot because I wanted to read a story that addressed a what-if I had some interest on, and to be honest I'm very proud of the result, even if it's clear it's some of my early-work. But the chapters after it were only done to be a crowd pleaser. I was so pumped up by the positive reception I had gotten I wanted more. And I committed a mistake that I recommend everyone to avoid: Don't write a story to please. Write it because you want to.

One shouldn't write for the reward (attention, impact, feedback, etc) but for the joy of writing itself. The reward, or the lack of it, comes after.

I'm very sorry to say this, especially since one of you actually PM me to ask about this fic, but I'm going to stop writing it, or even attempting to. Will I ever go back to it, read it and add something? Dunno, the future is always a mystery. Do I regret having written this fic? Not at all. Like everything in life, it's an experience that adds to make me the man I am today, and I learn about it, so I welcome it. I will leave the story as it is, but will add a small note on the first chapter, as I want for it to still stand as a one-shot.

I hope you understand, and I hope you like what I write on the future.

TheOneHoyle