Author's Note: The Observer Effect
WOW! Your reaction to Chapter 5: "Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered" was ah-mazing! A huge "THANK YOU" to everyone who read and left reviews. It's incredibly gratifying to me to know that so many of you are enjoying the story and are really getting into it.
I will be honest with you. Your feedback is changing the structure of the story I originally planned.
When I opened this Fan Fiction account earlier this month, I did so solely for the purpose to get this kernel of an idea about Fitz and Olivia out of my head and put it down on "paper" so to speak. I had a very clear sense of how I wanted the story to end, but no clue about how I was going to get to that ending. In fact, the very first chapter I wrote for this story, called "April in Paris," is actually a chapter that you're not going to see until much later on.
It's kind of a weird way to write a story, writing it out of sequence, but the scene was so vivid and clear in my mind when it initially came to me that I had to get it down. That particular chapter, ("April in Paris"), flowed right out of me. After I wrote that, I opened the Fan Fiction account, and then I wrote the prologue. A day after writing the prologue, I briefly sketched out the story, chapter by chapter, as I envisioned it.
But here's the thing - your feedback and comments are now changing the structure of the story as I originally planned it, which I think is a good thing. It's a bit of "the observer effect," where something that is being watched changes because it's being watched. In other words, you reading and reacting to my words is causing me to change the path of the story in ways I didn't anticipate when I started the story two weeks ago.
Your feedback and reviews have reinforced the following:
Fitz = good
Olivia = good
Fitz + Olivia = better
Angry/Horny/Jealous/Sexy Fitz = BEST!
LOL!
Some of you are probably reading this and rolling your eyes thinking that I'm not telling you anything you don't already know, that people can't get enough of Fitz and Liv. But still, it's good for me to get that feedback in the reviews.
I'm now finding that my original storyline needs to be revamped and rearranged. It's going to be a huge challenge for me to find creative ways to inject more Fitz-Livi juiciness in the coming chapters. I'm not sure I'll be able to consistently deliver, but I'm going to try.
As always, thanks so much for reading and for sticking with me as I make my way through this story, and keep those reviews coming.
Thank you!
Neo