At the moment, in addition to writing scenes for my own future works (alas, each time the impulse takes me, it's a different story concept. I'm not sure this is the way to make progress on a story.)

So I'm feeding the printer-friendly versions of stories into a text to speech engine on my iPhone. (I can recommend Voice Dream, on the app store. It's seems to take the most file formats.)

This approach has terrible problems of cadence, intonation, and basic pronunciation (some of which could be solved by building a phonetic dictionary file.)

Inevitably, I find I've misplaced a story.

The son of a department store higher up is in trouble, and she turns him over to the sales staff to make him more presentable. He decided to go for femme style, and the staff goes along with it. He ends up working there.

Much as I've tried to keep a separate existence from myself (confusing enough), Lynda now has a Twitter account and a YouTube logon.

Unfortunately, twitter insisted I tie it to a physical phone number, which can trace back...

In the old days of the internet, it was much easier to juggle identities. Having two email addresses was child's play...

I ran the printer version of "The Answer" through text-to-speech on my iPhone. That pointed out some misphrasings and typos to my ear, for all the strange pronunciations it resulted in.

The typos, at least, I'll fix shortly. And I'll think I'll employ text-to-speech as a late proofing stage on stories from now on, to cut down on errors.

Transgender Apps? Seems iffy

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/19/22433056/transgender-tech...

Personally, my most important pieces of gender related software are Bbedit and Safari...

(oh, and FaceApp, I suppose.)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3g88m/viral-japanese-biker-...

So, in the course of my rambles about the Internet, I became aware of this

"Life As A Girl" (https://youtu.be/2MDctbl32UE) from 2018, 1 season (only 4 episodes) (I've only seen 2. English subtitled. Said to be on SOME Netflix, although evidently not the North American feed.)

Watching it, I find a bit of a mixed bag.

She is living and working as a female, only interested in female partners. "she wants to becomes a girl, hasn't done any thing about her body 'yet'".

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When I started, The Answer was one somewhat shorter story, “finished”, I thought. I’d posted several to BC; The Answer was to be next. Its first was that it had notes for a sequel, which most of my stories don’t.

Chapter 1 (of 5, I think) has been posted. I've had to revise parts of it, and decided to break it up and work on a chunk at a time. Rather than rush it, I'm going to do things semi-weekly, about twice a week.

Ever since I posted Fitness Class from my iPad, my YouTube feed seems to be full of high heel tutorials.

A few months ago, an item of interest to our community came across my twitter, which is unusual, as my twitter is almost totally devoid of gender related content.

It was the graphic novel, "The Prince & The Dressmaker" by Jen Wang. Published in 2018, it has come up again recently.

This will be a "how it made me feel" review to avoid (most) spoilers.

Set in what I suspect is a fantasy of Paris and Europe in the 1800s,

Growing up, my memory was piqued by this old cover for The Female Man, by Russ.