Igenlode Wordsmith

Chapter 18 of Arctic Raoul typed up: 2500 words, one of the shortest (but it still seemed to take forever). I did abridge it slightly as I went through, because it is so obviously infodump/filler -- this is the middle of the 'drifting north' section, so it's the point at which I'm basically trying to explain how they managed to lose a month and end up in the wrong place instead of simply abandoning ship.

( Read more... )

AO3 stats:

One side-effect of the extremely sketchy viewing statistics provided by AO3 is that it has at least broken me of the habit of checking frequently to see which stories have been viewed (since you only get 'lifetime' figures over all chapters of a story, rather than a monthly per-chapter per-story breakdown).

However, most recently I uploaded Chapters 1 and 2 of "The Sons of Éléonore", since somebody actually requested that. Chapter 1 staggered up to 26 page views in the space of a couple of weeks. When I uploaded Chapter 2, the total went up to 51 (and I'm honestly not sure whether that implies that 13 people reread chapter 1 and then read chapter 2, or whether the fresh upload meant that a number of people read chapter 1 but decided it wasn't what they were looking for, and a few went on to read the new chapter -- which is the normal FFnet pattern -- or whether 25 people jumped straight to the latest update using the fandom page link. With AO3 you just can't tell.)

( bookmarks )

I discovered an HTML file copy of my Joseph Buquet story sitting in my website that had been there ever since 2017, but never actually linked from the index of fan-fiction. Evidently I got as far as doing the conversion, but never got round to all the laborious site maintenance involved in adding all the necessary headers/footers/links required to make it consistent with everything else!

I've been trying to update my exceedingly out-of-date website fan-fiction listing in parallel with uploading stuff to AO3, on the grounds that at least I only have to do the conversion once. ( Read more... )

---

I'm not terribly impressed by the author statistics provided by AO3, which are missing a lot of the information afforded by fanfiction.net; they don't record which chapters receive page hits or kudos, for example, so you can't tell the difference between a reader who glances at the first chapter and rejects the story as not what he was looking for (which is the most common reading pattern experienced by *all* fanfiction authors) and one who gets hooked and goes on to read all the way through a story.( Read more... )

---

On the plus side, I've typed (but not proofread) what will probably be Chapter 10 of Arctic Raoul, though the precise scene boundary with the next chapter may change, which takes us up to the calf-kissing episode. And I've finally made some necessary revisions to Chapters 1–5, and sent off Chapters 6–8 (which again had to be typed as a single entity before I could work out where the chapter boundaries were to fall) for beta-reading.

And I discovered completely by chance that I could still access stories on fanfiction.net via their www links rather than via the (easier to navigate) mobile site, and managed to 'evacuate' another eleven one-shots before the site cut out on me again, though I haven't been able to repeat the feat. That leaves me with I think eight stories still missing, although they are the longer ones -- I went for the 'quick wins' for obvious reasons.