Hello Everyone, I've moved to Ao3. Same user name (but without a space - NovusArs instead of Novus Ars), if you care to look me up.

A lovely reader of my old Blue Eyes and Butterflies contacted me asking where that story has gone off to. I've republished it here for her and anyone else that enjoyed it enough to reread it. At this point I have no plans to continue the story. There are two main reasons for this decision.

1. I started writing this story back in 2010-2011. My writing has developed beyond this story, leaving me with the option to either rewrite it or leave it where it is at. As my goal is to write original works now that I've learned how to write well, I found the option to rewrite it too time consuming. Maybe one day I will find time.
2. The anime/manga has lost my interest for a very long while. I love the Naruto world but when the anime suddenly brought back the dead because no one alive could possibly save the word, I had enough of the storyline (though it had lost me about 10 episodes into the shippuden series way back when. I checked in every once in a while to see if it was getting any better. It was getting worse.)

So, the story will not be continued for the for see-able future. If you want to ask any questions or have me layout the planned out plot as I do have a plot all laid out I can. - Writers block was never the issue, finding time to write it and then loss of interest is.

Since I'm on here, I thought I might upload one of my Hobbit fanfictions. This isn't the only one but it is the most complicated one I'm writing/wrote. The rest of the stories can be found on Ao3 (just type that in google and it should pop up - Archive of Our Own).

Update on A Secret Gate Series:

This is not a sad notice of abandonment either.

I just realized how long it's been since I've updated this. I thought you all deserved an update on things. The very short of it is there will be new chapters by May, at latest. If you want an explanation, you can continue reading. It's nothing life threatening or sad or depressing, just me doing something stupid and not realizing it until this past new year when I realized how long it has been.

Some of you may recall my claim that I was going to write more and had moved to a new tool to make things easier. Well, I am writing more and I did move to a new tool. Sadly what I considered a weird writers block - where I knew the plot, I knew the characters and their motivations but I couldn't write - wasn't writers block. It was my inability to utilize the new tool. It ruined my flow and process.

Coupled with that issue (and not realizing that was the issue), I also have reached the point where I need to pull notes together, create character sheets, etc for this story. I had a scattering of notes but nothing on each character. It's not productive writing a character and realizing you couldn't remember what accent emphasis you had given them, or if they had a certain craft, etc.

I tried to make those notes in the new tool and the cycle began where I'd get no where and get frustrated at my writing.

Eventually I gave up. I decided I needed to change things up and switch stories entirely. I opened a chasm I, perhaps, should never allowed. I re-awoke my Harry Potter Fandom. (It's never gone away, I just forcefully refused to write the epics that came to mind and they have grown and evolved and solidified in the back of my mind for years.)

I unleashed a monster.

It consumed me. Then, after writting approximately 50k, and not having reached half the story, I decided to place the story in said "new" tool because why didn't I have it in there in the first place, it would be so much easier and better and it'll be great (note the sarcastic tone).

And so the cycle returned and I did what I had eventually done before. I decided I had hit a major road block in this story, because I had conveniently decided to move things when "part one" had been completed.

I started another Harry Potter story. Part one (all 100k of it) has been completed recently. At that point, I looked up and realized how terrible I've been to you all. I haven't even responded to comments for most of the year. I came to the very delayed realization of what truly happened and how I ended up where I am.

So, that's what happened.

Going forward, I refuse to leave these stories incomplete (some of these stories are only in AO3). I will complete them. But I need to create my notes and transfer everything out of that failure of a tool. That will take time and I also want to finish the Harry Potter story I am writing right now.

My goal is to have a chapter out by the end of May. At that time I may also begin publishing these Harry Potter stories. Whether or not I complete this goal, you all will receive some form of update. Even if it's a general "the chapter is half way done" type of notice.

I am truly sorry for this epic fail. This is one big 'my bad'.

Cheers,
NovusArs