Fandom at Work

Since I posted chapter 16 on fanfiction.net, I’ve had some interesting responses.

A few have been from people commenting to say they liked the story. (So far, nobody is saying they didn’t like it, which is a sop to my ego.)

But the great majority of FF.net responses have been private messages from people—all of them women, supposedly—saying “wow I loved this”…and then hinting that they’d like to discuss things in more detail, and suggesting we get in contact on Discord. Well, I don’t use Discord; never have, no plans to start. When I tell them that, they grudgingly admit that email might be OK. I tell them, sure, if you do a Google search for “Sailor Moon 4200” my web-page is the first hit, and every page on there contains my email address.

Not a single one of these purported women has ever emailed me. Isn’t that interesting?

Naturally, trusting soul that I am, I would never imagine that these people are trying to rope me into some kind of scam. I’m sure their Google skills are just a bit on the lacking side.

I do wonder if anyone actually reads the story on FF.net, or if I’m wasting my time doing the format conversion to post it there. I thought of posting it on ASMR, but that doesn’t seem to exist any more. Well, so it goes.

Meanwhile, chapter 17 progress update: 7527 words.

Working, with Aggravations

Here I am in a hotel in Japan, again, trying to write. Chapter 17 is under way, though there’s not a whole lot done yet. For now, a lot of it is notes for scenes or plot elements that I want to work in, somehow. They’re pretty eclectic and I won’t be surprised if some of them don’t make it, but we’ll see.

Right now I’m trying to write the big reconnection scene that the end of Chapter 16 leads into. (Naming no names, because I don’t want to spoil anything if you haven’t read the chapter already.) It’s rough going for me because the discussion is really very dark and, frankly, no fun to write at all. But I plod on.

(Meanwhile, outside my hotel room, Tokyo is apparently about to get hit by a typhoon. That’ll be interesting…I’m sure.)

I’ve noticed yet another inconsistency in earlier chapters, dammit. In both chapters 13 and 14, “Emma” was first described as middle-aged, but thereafter referred to as an “old woman”.  In chapter 16, she was described only as an “old woman”. I think I’m going to tweak chapters 13 and 14 and remove any mention of her being middle-aged.

Progress update: 5255 words.