#enter naruto

[kinomiakai]

Dude okay so I went somewhere with no reception and no electricity so that meant I had to save my phone for emergencies, but I also didn't want to be bored the entire time and with no fic to read.

So, I did what any rational person would do and printed the entirety of Enter Naruto on paper, front and back, stuffed it in a binder, and brought it with me so I could read it for the millionth time and cry over how great of a writer you are. It is still such a fantastic story 💕

Hahaha omg anon I have so much respect for this!!! I’ve definitely saved fics for plane flights back in the day but printing it all out!! hahaha amazing, thank you so much, I’m honoured that you picked Enter Naruto :’D <3 <3 This is a delight to know, thank you for telling me!!!

[sasukessunshine]

Look what came in today! Glad to have a hard copy of @kinomiakai story which I love! 💛💙

[inluvwnaruto]

Got my copy, it’s great :)

@kinomiakai @azag24

[kinomiakai]

Ok so I have these unhealthy phases when literally all I do for a few days is read fanfiction. So I searched a rec list and I found out about "Enter Naruto" and I was like 'oh this author is pretty good' then I searched your account on ao3 and let me tell you, I came across a gold mine. For like, 3 days I binge read almost all your fanfics. And then I found out you post monthly. I was in heaven. Really, your writing is so good. I swear these 'name starting with K' authors are built different :))

Hsdfdsfds anon!! What the heck this is so sweet oh my gosh. I’ve definitely been there on the “do nothing but read” bit, I lowkey love diving in like that and it’s so, so cool to me that you did that with my writing!! Hksdhfs biggest shoutout to whoever made that rec list, I’m so happy it led you to me! A gold mine dhfdskjf that is so sweet hahaha, oh my gosh. Aww I do my best!! Thank you so much ;;;; Hahahaha is that a KizuKatana ref too?? I’d rec their work any day, love to be considered in the same vein - thank you so much!!!!!!

[kinomiakai]

i ended up literally BINGING enter naruto in 3 days and all i can say is that your hands must be blessed or something like that because wow.. Just, wow. I loved it, you can never write anything bad is just impossible for you 😭

Did you!!! kfdhkshfhdkfs oh my god anon hahhaah you are the sweetest!!! Oh I can totally write bad stuff you should see my first drafts!! But I love that all the effort was so worth it. Thank you so much!!!!! ;;;; <3

[kinomiakai]

I know it's been 2 years since you published enter naruto but are you still selling it as a bound book? 👀

Hjkhjkh has it been two years!! Hahah yes I am, although I wouldn’t say selling bc I make no money from it! I’ll DM you the link in a minute :>

[kinomiakai]

What name would’ve you given enter naruto instead of the title it already has? Also What type of author are you? Writes fast then edits later, starts writing but then procrastinates/author’s block hits or do you take your time, prepare for the long ride And sit on your computer screen until your ideas are typed?

Oooh anon these are such fun questions!! Enter Naruto is so ingrained in me as the title now that I was really struggling to come up with anything else - and then I remembered I definitely have some title brainstorming around, so here were the other options!!

The title of a story tends to be the last thing I do, once I know the story completely in its concrete sort of sense. But for Enter Naruto I didn’t even get the title until after I’d written the summary (another thing I do at the end), so have some bonus brainstorming haha:

You can tell I'd just finished when I wrote all that because I kept referencing the ending!! Haha.

As for your second question!!! That’s so hard!!! My initial gut was to say all three, depending on the fic, because I’m definitely #1 in my brainstorming phase, I definitely get hit by #2 when I’m working on really long fics, and I’m trying my best to work on #3!! Especially nowadays. But I think #1 still fits me the best - I’m all about just getting the ideas down on paper any way I can, and then editing a bazillion times until it turns into the story I want it to be. Thanks anon!! This was fun :)

[kinomiakai]

What got you into writing? Did you woke up one day and said ‘thats what I want to do’ or does it have a deeper meaning? I LOVED and I repeat effing LOVED ENTER NARUTO🤗

Aww anon!!! You are so sweet!!! I’m so happy you loved Enter Naruto!! I never meant for it to get that long, but I just kind of rode out the idea until it all wrapped up together :> I definitely didn’t go into it thinking I could write something that big!!

Which is a theme for me, actually, because I...never considered writing a hobby of mine?? Or something that I was good at?? Even though I did it ALL the time. I mean all the time. I found stories I wrote from when I was like 6 or 7. When I was a preteen me & my best friend talked about making some big fantasy mmrpg game and I have all these character backstories and worldbuilding stuff. When I was in high school I had this little dolphin notebook that I would write a little bit more of this big story involving twins and angels and demons and weird science experiments (it was VERY YA fantasy lmao) and one of my good friends would always ask to read it when I had something new (I’m very grateful to her for indulging me). We had a math project that was harry potter themed and you got bonus points if you wrote a little sorting song and I wrote a goddamn one that was like 15 pages or some crap?!? I was so keen about it. Got the math right too but I was much more focused on the poetry sdjfhkskfhksd

And through all that I NEVER thought of writing as a hobby of mine. It just never registered in my head as something viable?? Something that I could take seriously in myself? Legitimately not until a few years ago, between Rebuilding and Enter Naruto - between people finding my on ao3 and tumblr and flooding my inbox. And I’m so grateful to all of you all because you took me seriously when I didn’t, and it feels too good to be true that I can just indulge myself in something I enjoy so much and have you all find the same joy in it that I do. So it’s??? Something that I wanted to do but not something I thought I could do, I think? I’m very motivated to do my best to make it something I can, now, though. I’m trying to get better every day. And I have you all to thank for it!!! So thank you, anon! You’re one of the things that gets me into writing whenever I can! :) <3