Bleh....
Please note, I am not directing this at anyone in particular or anyone at all.
I just have to wonder if my chapter 4 is really that bad. I waited to post it until Saturday, when I thought the main festivities would soon be coming to an end. But without even one review, I don't know about posting the next chapter yet. If it's that people haven't got to it yet, then I don't want to put up yet another chapter and overwhelm them. But if it's that it was so mediocre that they can't think of anything to say, it would be nice to know that they have read it so that I could feel that it's time to put up chapter five (which might interest them more if chapter 4 was a bore).
I actually don't think chapter 4 is bad, unless allowing Autor to carry on a full conversation when he revives is so unrealistic that it overshadows everything else. I don't know how that sort of thing is looked upon in the Tutu fandom. All I really know is that the hurt/comfort genre doesn't seem to be very popular. I'm too influenced by the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books I love, I imagine. But he does suffer effects from the fall for the next few chapters, even though he was able to talk with Ahiru....
I am glad that someone put the fic on Story Alert. It happened after I posted chapter 4, so I know that someone must have read it and, I suppose, did like it. I just wish I knew whether I should post chapter 5 yet....
And I have to figure out what to do with a squee Christmas image I got of Autor out in the cold with Ahiru and trying to warm her. He ends up trying to comfort her/keep her alert by singing a couple of Christmas carols to her. Ahiru tells him he should sing more. Potentially it could end up a Tutu version of a YGO bikers fic I did with Alister and Valon in the snow. And I'd rather get the plot further removed so it isn't so similar.
I wonder if Autor can sing. It's never been addressed in canon, and in my fics it was only alluded to that he can carry a tune when, possessed by his Story, he hummed to keep the melody of his composition unbroken after his left hand was rendered useless to play the piano. In any case, if he can sing, he probably doesn't do it much.
Now, to switch gears (but still keeping somewhat related where Autor is concerned). Tentatively, I think Eros (and that is indeed only the name of the character in the school play, not the student playing him) is probably Alan. Alfred probably would have wisecracked at the ridiculous situation in the climax instead of just staring on.
Expect many pictures of the Autor look-alike very soon. High-quality ones this time. I'll probably put them in my Scrapbook. I don't know if I'll show them to the comm. I wonder if there would be much interest if I did.
I did discover that by the second season, Jeff Siggins' hair had gotten shaggy in the back. Which means that aside from his hair parting to the right instead of to the left, he looked pretty much exactly like Autor by then.
And Alfred seems to have a little crush on Patty. It's cute. I think maybe I'd better tweak some of their dialogue in their scene in my fic to reflect that. They seem to be on pretty good terms, in spite of Patty being upset at his teasing of Cathy in one episode.
I just have to wonder if my chapter 4 is really that bad. I waited to post it until Saturday, when I thought the main festivities would soon be coming to an end. But without even one review, I don't know about posting the next chapter yet. If it's that people haven't got to it yet, then I don't want to put up yet another chapter and overwhelm them. But if it's that it was so mediocre that they can't think of anything to say, it would be nice to know that they have read it so that I could feel that it's time to put up chapter five (which might interest them more if chapter 4 was a bore).
I actually don't think chapter 4 is bad, unless allowing Autor to carry on a full conversation when he revives is so unrealistic that it overshadows everything else. I don't know how that sort of thing is looked upon in the Tutu fandom. All I really know is that the hurt/comfort genre doesn't seem to be very popular. I'm too influenced by the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books I love, I imagine. But he does suffer effects from the fall for the next few chapters, even though he was able to talk with Ahiru....
I am glad that someone put the fic on Story Alert. It happened after I posted chapter 4, so I know that someone must have read it and, I suppose, did like it. I just wish I knew whether I should post chapter 5 yet....
And I have to figure out what to do with a squee Christmas image I got of Autor out in the cold with Ahiru and trying to warm her. He ends up trying to comfort her/keep her alert by singing a couple of Christmas carols to her. Ahiru tells him he should sing more. Potentially it could end up a Tutu version of a YGO bikers fic I did with Alister and Valon in the snow. And I'd rather get the plot further removed so it isn't so similar.
I wonder if Autor can sing. It's never been addressed in canon, and in my fics it was only alluded to that he can carry a tune when, possessed by his Story, he hummed to keep the melody of his composition unbroken after his left hand was rendered useless to play the piano. In any case, if he can sing, he probably doesn't do it much.
Now, to switch gears (but still keeping somewhat related where Autor is concerned). Tentatively, I think Eros (and that is indeed only the name of the character in the school play, not the student playing him) is probably Alan. Alfred probably would have wisecracked at the ridiculous situation in the climax instead of just staring on.
Expect many pictures of the Autor look-alike very soon. High-quality ones this time. I'll probably put them in my Scrapbook. I don't know if I'll show them to the comm. I wonder if there would be much interest if I did.
I did discover that by the second season, Jeff Siggins' hair had gotten shaggy in the back. Which means that aside from his hair parting to the right instead of to the left, he looked pretty much exactly like Autor by then.
And Alfred seems to have a little crush on Patty. It's cute. I think maybe I'd better tweak some of their dialogue in their scene in my fic to reflect that. They seem to be on pretty good terms, in spite of Patty being upset at his teasing of Cathy in one episode.