The Blind Man: Blog

Just a small grammatical error fix in the second to last sentence in Chapter Ten.

Hope everyone is enjoying this. There will be more to come.

First off I'd like to say thank you to those readers out there who have sent me comments and feedback. It has been appreciated and very helpful.

I've just reposted Chapter Three because someone noticed a word that was definitely a mistake. I had written "Needless to say I was in bed before my wife even finished her supper." The word should have been shower. It has now been fixed.

Another reader has suggested I try out an external editior. I am considering that. I try my best to proof my own writting but I'm not perfect and I do have a few bad habits.

The other reason I've written this entry is to discuss the story. Some people have noticed that I've drifted away from the 'incest' aspect of the story and others have suggested I need to pump up the action in the chapters. In response, I'd like to apologize if the story isn't grabbing you. Perhaps I should throw in a 'slow' code as a disclaimer.

I do intend to return to the 'incest' portion of the story in upcoming chapters and I do intend to add more excitement and sexual content. When I started writing this I wanted to lay out to the readers the world that my characters had been plopped into and the conditions under which they were forced to live. Like life things sometimes take time to happen.

I hope this clarifies where I'm going with the story without going into any deals, and I hope that you the readers will hang in there while I tell my tale.

Thanks.

A reader identified a couple of minor errors in Chapter One; one of a technical nature to the raising of crops and one in terminology. I agreed with him and have fixed my text. Nothing major to the overall flow of the story so no one needs to rush back and reread Chapter One.

Thanks again for the feedback.

Thank you to those who have provided me feedback on my story. One has pointed out a small error in my grammar that Microsoft failed to pick up and another has noted a point in regards to the actions of my principal character.

The grammar issue will be fixed over the course of the day. It won't change anything content wise in the story, so those following my tale don't need to go back and reread the chapters once they get reposted.

The technical issue will change content slightly. It was pointed out to me that my pipeline laying, while convent had a few drawbacks to it. One was that it was a tripping or navigational hazard for anyone moving through that area, or a possible hazard to any stock that might get out of their fields. The other point dealt with the fact that an above ground water pipe could freeze in extreme temperatures, which wouldn't be a great thing for Adam and his family.

Originally I wrote that description with two things in mind. One was pure convenience for our intrepid survivors and the other was that I was putting them in a region where the temperature rarely got down to freezing. In fact, I was remembering my tour of duty in Germany and the fact that I had only one cold winter during my four years there, and that we only had freezing temperatures once. That is why I wrote what I did.

However, the raising of the point got me thinking Jack (Adam) is supposed to be a farmer from the mid-west. It's a region that does get snow and freezing weather on a yearly basis and technically speaking Jack would have gone the extra mile and buried the pipeline or found some way to insulate it. What this means that I will be rewriting the text dealing with the pipeline set up and reposting it. However, since I've discussed the topic here, once again - no one needs to go back and reread the changes. Unfortunately, it will delay the posting of any new chapters for a day or two.

Again thanks for the feedback and I hope you continue to enjoy my tale.

I received my first one last night. Amazing! I've seen a number of blog entries over the years referring to these miraculous occurrences. I've always wondered why someone would do it; especially since these people never provide any feedback. Personally, whenever I've started to read a story that I thought I'd might like, and then found out that I didn't, I normally just stop reading and move on. If I do keep reading and get to the point where I rate the story, I normally provide feedback to the author as to why I was scoring him the way I had. I mean its common courtesy. Anyway, I'll take my first 'one' rating as a badge of honour. As I said above, I've seen this complaint mentioned many times before on SOL, by many authors; some of whom are much better than my poor efforts.

Have a good day.