Iskander: Blog

Now that the Christmas season is over, January offers me lots of time to write and I am still hopeful of completing the first draft by the end of January. In spite of interruptions from real life, I am into chapter 14.

In the meantime, the Clitorides nominations are open. Please go and support your favourite stories and authors.

This year I was blown away by Ryan Sylander's Hook, Pick and Lens trilogy. You can't vote for that (as it counts as a series apparently) but you can vote for the last volume - Shutter Release. If you have not discovered this fascinating story, do yourself a favour and read it!

So, despite life throwing up the usual roadblocks, writing continues. Through my Eyes. Again has now reached chapter 12 and is approaching 60,000 words. With the academic year drawing to a close I am still hoping to finish this book by the end of January. I have several beta readers at work providing feedback, which is very useful. One piece of feedback entailed a major change of a character's back story - which fortunately did not have a significant impact on what was already written but does clarify motivation for future actions.

If you are interested in being a beta reader and providing feedback, please contact me.

I am still working on Through my Eyes. Again, but this short story has been bouncing around in head for several months. So, as a break from writing TMEA, I allowed After... to drift out of the shadows.

I hope you like it - and as always, please send me feedback - join my Patreon and Discord channel, the links are on my home page.

First of all, thank you for the continuing feedback - it's much appreciated. The draft of chapter 3 is available on my Patreon and I will be adding at least one more chapter there this week. I would really like feedback on these chapters as they are posted.

In the meantime, writing continues. First drafts of chapters 7, 8 and 9 are now complete but the story arc itself is still pulling in a couple of different directions after that.

I leapt into publishing my story with a great deal of enthusiasm, some angst and considerable naivety. Fortunately, there are many kind and helpful people here on SOL who suggested I not proceed as I had planned.

Rather, they pointed me at Patreon - a site where I could post my story in draft form and receive feedback in more controlled circumstances. Once the story was finalised, I could then post the story back to SOL on a regular schedule.

So, having listened to people (readers and authors), that is what I am doing. I have posted the first two chapters that are available here to my patreon site as public posts. From chapter three onwards, I will post these chapters as tier1 (friend) posts.

My patreon site is https://www.patreon.com/posts/30618201.

I hope to see you there and, again, my thanks for the feedback and advice I have received here.