More of An Expirement Than Anything Else

You ever have something really exciting and also really disturbing happen?

I discovered Wattpad today. I've been looking for some place where I could just post fiction and get it over with, but now that I've browsed on the platform, I'm not sure that I want to... Was just cruising the sci fi section and found Age Regression Diaper 3000.

...yeah.

So that's happening on the internet. Glad we found that one out. It's got 313,000 views. Yup. The diaper story. Has 313,000 goddamn views. I seriously fear for our species. This shit right here is why the aliens won't talk to us.

Honestly, meh. I don't really give a shit what people want to fantasize about, but I wish I hadn't seen that. Either way, it's not a market where my fiction would belong. A lot of it is sensationalized, provocative type bullshit that seems ripped from the headlines of the National Enquirer from back when I was a kid. I won't be participating in any of it. I don't need readers that bad (he said, with literally zero readers).

I hit a bump on my litrpg story. Not even a bump, really, just hit the first scene where I didn't really know what happened next. So, this morning I went back to my brainstorming notes and read them over, and that gave me some ideas of what might happen next. I still don't know exactly what I'm going to write about next, which bothers me deeply, but I'm learning to be okay with it. The last scene that came at me by surprise turned out to be actually kind of good. Again, I don't know because I don't have any readers on it. But I think it's good, so it could be good or it could be crap. Who knows.

On a side note, I just read the end of Redshirts last night. It was great. It really was. But there was a bit at the end where another author mentioned having a google alert set to her name. Is that really a thing? Can one actually do that? So I'm going to test it out. I'm not expecting anything to happen, since the internet is vast and obsessed with alien sexual encounters, bigfoot stories and apparently diapers. And also, if this dude had an alert tied to his name, it must go off constantly. So again, I seriously doubt this will work.

John Scalzi.