I’m over the moon that it’s June! It finally feels like summer, even though it doesn’t officially start for a few more weeks. I spent most of this week doing professional development for work, so it wasn’t the most productive week in terms of writing, but the streak is still alive! I’m almost to 500 days! I left you hanging on The World Will Be Waiting last week, but never fear, Chapter 34 is here! I hope you enjoy it.
Thank you to all the wonderful readers who visit this site and read my stories, whether here or on AO3. Kudos to those of you who take time to let me know you’re reading and share your thoughts! I can’t tell you how much I appreciate hearing from you!
Speaking of kudos, I have a mission for you, should you choose to accept it! I’m on a quest to defeat the dreaded Kudos Bot from wreaking havoc on my stats on AO3. What is the Kudos Bot, you ask? It’s a bot that adds large amounts of guest kudos to random stories, usually stories with very few hits, comments, or real kudos. It attacked a couple of the 00Carter episodes last year, and my stats are still skewed as a result. Why is this a bad thing, you ask? Don’t writers want kudos? Well, yes, but we want real kudos from real readers. These fake kudos may look legit to people who don’t know any differently, but they mean nothing to me because I know I didn’t earn them. Unfortunately, there’s no way to delete them, so my stats page continues to look like this:
As much as I adore 00Carter, “In the Wink of an Eye” clearly doesn’t deserve to be in the top five in terms of kudos. If you know me, you probably know I am a little OCD when it comes to stats and numbers, so it annoys me to no end to see this. I would love to be able to bump it out of the top five and boost Curtain Call into its rightful fifth place so that at least the bar graph is legit.
Here’s how you can help! If you’ve read and enjoyed any of my stories in the past, click their titles below and leave a kudo! Bonus points if you’re logged into your AO3 account, but if you don’t have one of those, you can still leave kudos as a guest. (But please only leave one kudo per story and only on stories that you actually read. Again, the goal here is legitimacy; I’m not trying to inflate my stats with fake or duplicate kudos.)
I just linked my novels/novellas, but feel free to visit my full works page if you’d like to leave kudos on any other stories. I haven’t posted the Broken series on AO3 yet due to its length and the amount of editing it needs. Too overwhelming for me now, but that could be a summer project at some point. Anyway, thanks again to anyone willing to help me with my kudos drive!