Well, I've had quite a bit of feedback on the story (and the first blog post) all of is very helpful and thought provoking.
One of the suggestions was to not post a story until its completely written. This is advice I've had from other authors whose opinion I value (because of their writing and experience). I decided not to do that for a couple of reasons.
First of all, I really wanted to get some feedback. If people hated what I was writing I wanted to know - and try to understand why they felt that way before I wrote 100,000 words (I'm already close to 50,000).
The second reason was because posting in chapters implied a commitment to readers - and that would help me with my motivation to keep writing, even when real life intervenes.
So two chapters are up and I'll be trying to post a chapter every fortnight. Which brings me to chapter 3. Whilst working on chapter 7 I realised I needed to make a couple of changes to chapter 3.
I'm not quite sure yet how things work as an author here, so I don't know if I can repost a chapter - and I am very unsure about the ethics of doing that anyway.
I'm glad I realised the problem, but I am now really wary and will spend a bit more time over the next two weeks checking from my plotline back into chapters 3-7 (particularly chapter 3)!
Thanks for reading and please continue to give me feedback.
Iskander Monday 7th October, 2019