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I didn't have a good grasp on the version of Jenny that I wanted to use and the story has rather more cute ideas than plot or character. But it's got the one great quality people look for in an art work: it exists; it's done. | I didn't have a good grasp on the version of Jenny that I wanted to use and the story has rather more cute ideas than plot or character. But it's got the one great quality people look for in an art work: it exists; it's done. | ||
I do remember that some of the cameo Jennies were ones for whom I had vague ideas, but all the notes on them from that era are long lost.|Scott Sanford}} | I do remember that some of the cameo Jennies were ones for whom I had vague ideas, but all the notes on them from that era are long lost. | ||
<i>(12 Sept 2021)</i> Because I was asked on the Discord channel: Yes, those unnamed fellows are meant to be the Fourth Doctor and Neil Gaiman's Morpheus. There aren't that many people - even using the word loosely - who are likely to wander into a room full of Jennies... | |||
<i>(18 Feb 2022)</i> I'm pretty sure the early-20th century biker in this story isn't the high-tech 21st century biker in Paying it Forward parts six and seven; lots of Jennies ride motorcycles and they don't seem to have anything else in common. On the other hand the oracle is obviously Cha Ni, She Who Sees Everywhere, as seen in the first part of Paying it Forward. I hadn't planned that! It wasn't until well into the later story that I went back and looked at Second Date - and there she was in the prose, years earlier. | |||
<i>Commentary found in a notes file from 2008:</i> | |||
Well, where to start? This was my first JE story, and while lacking in plot it‘s a pretty cute little vignette. | |||
Also, since Jenny has special powers, conflict and drama arise in situations where those powers don’t help her, such as finding a decent boyfriend. | |||
If you liked Second Date, try looking up Roger Zelazny’s short story ‘A Very Good Year,’ which has a certain thematic similarity which I won‘t spoil here. Under no circumstances read that story first, however, as Zelazny was a better writer than I am… I stumbled over it again by accident after getting my first draft of Second Date done and realized that I had indeed read something similar before. A strong overtone of Zelazny’s writing style can be seen in the opening to the next story, Parallax.|Scott Sanford}} | |||
===Read online=== | ===Read online=== | ||
The story is available both [https://sites.google.com/site/scotthsanford/second-date on Sanford's original ''Jenny Everywhere'' Google Site] and on [https://scott-sanford.dreamwidth.org/39291.html the author's Dreamwidth website]. There, it was given some [https://scott-sanford.dreamwidth.org/39475.html Author's Commentary]. | The story is available both [https://sites.google.com/site/scotthsanford/second-date on Sanford's original ''Jenny Everywhere'' Google Site] and on [https://scott-sanford.dreamwidth.org/39291.html the author's Dreamwidth website]. There, it was given some [https://scott-sanford.dreamwidth.org/39475.html Author's Commentary]. | ||
