I haven't checked my chapter stats on the fan fiction website recently, and got a bit of a shock. I've been getting over 450 reads for my first chapter! Of course, less than 25 for the most recent chapter, added Sunday, still...hmmm--people are reading this rubbish? I am a bit surprised--delighted actually, but mostly a bit gobsmacked.

Why? Because this isn't one of my better stories. I mean, I've written rubbish before, mind. But this is just stuff that I'm making up as I go, and not taking seriously at all. I guess I'd better do a writing session tommorrow, ey? Write another short chapter, maybe two, if I'm really feeling ambitious. Guess I'll have to start seriously considering an acutal plot, ey? I really am...astounded. Last time I looked, sure some people had read Chapter One, but hardly any of the other chapters were getting any serious reading...odd. Just overnight, people are reading it. Which is a bit daunting now, as when I thought no one was bothering with it, quality and plot weren't really an issue--I was just having fun with it, and letting the story go wherever it may...now...gosh, gotta start making notes and stuff. Geez...love getting read--but when I know I'm getting read (unlike my blog--which I honesty don't care about, when it comes to perfect writing, as it's just my journal and not a formal work of creativity or anything remotely like that)--when I know that people are taking the time to read one of my creative works-- a story, poem or play...that's serious stuff, and I have to write accordingly.

Of course, when writing journalistic articles, essays and the like, I always fuss over perfect writing. Creative writing--eh, not so much. I didn't take hardly any creative writing in college, so I haven't learned to be quite as paranoid about perfect copy as I have with the non-fiction.

I nearly fell tonight, coming up the stairs of my apartment building. My retinitis pigmentosa sometimes trips me up--can see better in the dark than the dim light...sometimes, if the light's really dim, I literally can see hardly anything at all. It's getting slightly worse, my periphial vision's pretty much toast..but I don't have tunnel vision or anything like that, yet, which is good. What little blindness I've got so far, is pretty much limited to one small corner of my right eye. My left eye's pretty good, it's mostly my right that bothers me.

I was always hitting kerbs with my car tires, because I couldn't make the adjustmet with my eye..but not a problem anymore--don't have a car. But I do need to remember to stop and let my eyes adjust, when I do enter a low light situation...such as coming in from a sunny place, a low wattage bulb, deep shadows and late dusk situations.