Hi everyone on BC. With Momma E's letter to Helen, i feel it was a great ending to one of my longest stories i have ever writen. Oh how i wanted soooo much to keep it going but i never found anything that wasn't already addressed in the narrative. I had fun with Helen and Jo but i felt it was time to move onto something else. I left it open because 1) i wanted Helen to reflect myself a little and i am still not out of the closet so i would have literally no idea of how to proceed if she ever does come out on paper. 2) i wanted to leave it opened just in case i ever got inspiration for a spin off (my favorite kind of sequel) where i focus on other people in Helen's life. That i think i will try but i don't know when or how i will go about doing it.
All in all, i am overjoyed at the support you have shown this mediocre writer and even more abysmal storyteller in humoring my coping mechanism.
Thanks. Also, I'm going to go back to focusing more on Swaps Universe to get back to fantacy/scifi and away from slice-of-life as it can get really hard to recover from. I still enjoy writing them but to me body swaping is more fun than an MLP marathon with my little cousin.
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OOPS! I read the last chapter!
I read Momma's letter to her daughter, and I was surprised because I didn't think this story was going there, because Helen was so cautious and you'd mentioned she was probably going to stay closeted as far as her family was concerned. So now I know how it ends. It was very moving. But now I need to figure out where I left off and read the rest. And then I'll comment. But I do like your freewheeling and humorous narrative voice as Helen...
I understand your cautious approach to TG fiction. One of the scariest things I ever did as a writer was to write a story about a transsexual back in 2008 and post it here where women who have actually transitioned would read it. I used my own thoughts and feelings for the narrator's---pouring my girly heart out as honestly as I could---but the rest was made up. And for some reason I thought: "They're gonna find out I'm a fraud, or self-deluded when I imagine myself being transgender or for thinking I have anything in common with them; when their reaction will tell me I'm really just some weird guy with fetishes..." Or I was thinking some kinda confused nonsense like that, but I wasn't confident at all about publishing it.
And Veronica & Veronica turned out to be my most popular story! Girls who are much braver than me in real life read it and related to it and laughed in all the right places; and I felt super grateful and validated and much more at home here since then. I'm not saying that's your reasoning behind your caution; but I do know the hesitance about writing outside of one's life experience.
So now I go ahead and just make stories up now and toss them out there (it's a pretty forgiving community here at BCTS after all, give or take a few arguments about stuff like the width of the tread on a Sherman tank + other strange comment disputes); and some of my personal favorites flop while inconsequential toss offs get raves. Oh well... Although I always return to my totally true autobiographical stories about my life as a mermaid.
~Splishy Splashy Fishy Wishy! Veronica
Well shit, I guess it really CAN happen here..,
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