VeryWellAged: Blog

Yes that is the actual Appeal value on Jake's Thread #1 tonight. With 44 TPA votes it is listed on the site with an 8.8.8.

Of the 44 votes, 19 were 10's and another 13 were 9's. So that is 32 out of the total of 44. One guy clearly didn't like it and gave it a 3. There were no 4's or 5's, one 6 and one 7. Hey everyone has a right to not like something. But in math there is the concept of an out-lier. There is something wrong with a scoring system that equates 8.977272727 with 8.0. And there is something wrong when we can't identify an out-lier for what is it.

It's not that the TPA means that much to people. I gather you can't even sort by it... but it is a bit of a irritant to see these numbers that are supposed to mean something and really do not reflect reality. For what it's worth the P=8.886363636 and that is bad enough... but the A is just confounding.

There are multiple women in my stories that deserve their own voice, but I am not sure I can give them the voice they deserve. I am not interested in writing anything else for now. While the ratings for the stories has been pretty positive, I have received very little feedback on the stories I have posted. What I have received, while very positive, hasn't been the type of feedback that tells me what people are looking for in my stories; what worked for them and what didn't work. Lastly, I have yet to find a female editor. I think I really need one.

I have submitted the entire second part of the story. As usual there are lots of places that can branch out for other stories. These are not contained in a bubble and I leave people with lives yet to live.

I sent Part 2 off to my erstwhile and trusted editor, Grisbuff. He needs a few days to digest it and has other duties, far more urgent and pressing to perform. So while I await the return of my copy which I trust will likely need significant reworking, I find myself with time on my hands.

I decided to re-read and edit Jake's Thread #1 and am sure glad I did. Even though has been through innumerable edits with me and two editors, I found errors in 10 of 12 chapters! How embarrassing!

I also found some sentences that needed to be reworked. So I did that today. By now 8 of the 10 reworked chapters have worked their way through the submission process and are already posted. The last two will be posted momentarily.

Maybe tomorrow I will take on Thread #2! :-) I find a day without a writing assignment to be frustrating. I seem to need to write. Why after all these years? Weird.

The next story, is in two parts. The first part I expect to post on Sunday.

This is a new Jake Thread but written from the Point of View of the child of the mother who marries Jake. I do recommend reading some of the other Jake's Threads first.

I will post the second part next week. The second part is not a stand-alone story. The first part, if I had chosen to, could have ended without a part two... but for those of you who already know Jake... well that just would not do.

I hope you enjoy The Package Deal.