Fanfiction stats repeat

And to my great astonishment, I got hits on all my stories for
a second month running. If this keeps up, it will no longer even be noteworthy!
( Fanfiction stats July 2019)


Somebody suggested that it may be a side-effect of the death of Paul Darrow; the Blake's 7 stories on my account (along with "Lost and Found") are generally the ones left unviewed at the end of the month. Since they're the ones I considered too obscure/lacking in fan appeal to submit to zines at the time that's not too surprising, but I can see an upsurge of activity in the (rather dead) B7 section of fanfiction.net attracting attention to otherwise unread areas of that section.( Read more... )

No mittens

Having reread the manuscript for "Familiar", I observe that not only does Anna wake up not wearing mittens, but she also blows her nose several times, which would require her to take them off every time she wanted to use the handkerchief. So while I could come up with explanations for where a pair of mittens suddenly appear from (her pockets, Hans) and mention that she puts them on at some point, I really think it's simpler if I simply excise all the three or four various subsequent references where she is wearing them!

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I still haven't started work on the meat of Plot Point 12, despite having written about fifteen hundred words on the chapter (which in consequence is almost certainly going to run too long, unless it comes out very unbalanced indeed). I have, however, finally said goodbye to Lancard — it's literally the last thing I wrote this evening. This chapter was not actually meant to be about Raoul/Lancard angst and misunderstandings :-p

(It dawned on me today that Lancard is basically a younger version of Jussy, acid tongue, class-conscious chip on the shoulder and all. Well, I rather liked Jussy as a character...)