I'm curious...

[Bob Schroeck]

Does anyone read the footnotes we put in the stories?

I'm only asking because in the footnotes for the second chapter of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Touring were links to MP3s of original music we created for Wakaba Girls. And no one has commented on them in the week they've been up. In fact, no one has even responded to my explicit query about people's reactions in the story thread.

[VincentUrsus]

I do. I flip back and forth from the footnotes while going through the stories.

For the Wakaba Girls music my reaction was "I am in reading mode now, I will come back to those later." Then I forgot about them. Mea culpa.

[Bob Schroeck]

Fair enough. Thanks!

[Isodecan]

I also tend to read the footnotes and if I still have questions use them to provide direction for where to find more information.

[robkelk]

While many of our footnotes are informational, some of them are more Pratchettian in tone and purpose.

[Bob Schroeck]

While many of our footnotes are informational, some of them are more Pratchettian in tone and purpose.

Such as "I don't mean Antoine of Flatbush!" in a certain upcoming story. <grin>

[Mamorien]

"No chefs were harmed in the making of this Louisiana Bayou Back Bay Bunny Bordelaise."

[robkelk]

Does anyone read the footnotes we put in the stories?

I'm only asking because in the footnotes for the second chapter of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Touring were links to MP3s of original music we created for Wakaba Girls. And no one has commented on them in the week they've been up. In fact, no one has even responded to my explicit query about people's reactions in the story thread.

For that matter, no one has commented on most of the stories...

This isn't a "review or stop getting stories" threat; I hate when writers do that. besides, we already have the first chapter of a new story queued up for this week. It would be nice to learn what we're doing wrong (and should fix) and what we're doing right (and should keep doing), though.

[Bob Schroeck]

It's just... while it's less work for us than you might think, it would be nice to know if it's at all worth the effort made at providing detail and verisimilitude to the world. It honestly is getting to the point that we're more writing for the visible appreciation we're getting on AO3 than for the community here.

[robkelk]

It's just... while it's less work for us than you might think, it would be nice to know if it's at all worth the effort made at providing detail and verisimilitude to the world. It honestly is getting to the point that we're more writing for the visible appreciation we're getting on AO3 than for the community here.

Which makes me wonder whether we should continue posting them here early. Perhaps we should simply post short stories and chapters here at the same time we post them to AO3. Most of the time, we can only tell from the "Views" column that somebody's looking at the posts when they're posted here. (Whether that translates to reading the posts is, of course, another matter altogether. If all we're doing here is generating content that's being grabbed for search-engine hits and LLM training, well, maybe I should stop worrying about the group having something to post here every single week, spend more time on Isekai by Moonlight, and encourage Bob to spend more time on Drunkard's Walk...)