Virus Alert: Valleys and Peaks [Not a story segment]

[WilloWisp]

There is nothing quite so grueling as sending a sympathetic character's emotions through the woodchipper.

My friends, I've been working ahead of schedule. Every chapter up to 4.50 is written, pending only proofreading. 4.17 will probably be posted in a few hours.

I've had my share of confusion at the response to Virus Alert. Things which I wouldn't have expected to be of much interest here show signs of popularity, while some things I put in purely as fanservice... Well, they're far from unpopular, and the response seems to be that I know how to put together an well-constructed erotic scene, even if much of that eroticism is only erotic to our particular spectrum of sexuality - but the feedback I've received indicates that the non-sexual stuff is almost as engaging as the sexual stuff.

4.50 is going to be the make-or-break point for the series. It's the longest episode so far, and has plenty of sex, but... It's the true litmus test for whether I'm telling a competent story, or just leading up to a huge Mary Sue-level of cringingly awful self-insert fiction. It was hard to write, and I mean that in an emotional sense. As the author, I cried at the ending. That statement alone may well color your perception of me as a writer, but it really got under my skin.

I suspect that Office Pace will be a polarizing story (if anyone actually pays attention to it): Readers will either react much as I did to reading it - or will laugh out loud at the sheer absurdity of it. Some of you will probably find aspects of it completely unrealistic, even for fetish fiction - ironically, this reaction only reinforces the theme of the story. All I ask is that you give it a chance, because it has some kind of... uncomfortable spots. There is a point where it might even seem accusatory. Just understand that I'm not setting out to accuse, since I would be more guilty than most.