Me and my Shadow

My therapist is really good.  I think I've found my problem.  It's brought back a memory of an excellent short story that I read years and years ago by Jeff Noon.  It resonated with me back then, which seems to suggest that the problem that has now been identified has been my problem for a good many years:  I have a shadow.

Full disclosure:  I've had a bad week, and wrote most of this post while at work, for reasons which will become clear.

Writing updates

Not too dissimilar to
the intended cover
picture for my meisterwork

I'm writing, and it's good.

Chapter 3 was hard-going because of the subject matter, then Chapter 4 turned out slightly differently than I had imagined.  Instead of a quick talky bit and the introduction of a new character, it turned out to be rather emotional and romantic.  There was even a fire, and something happened that I didn't plan to happen until halfway through book two.  It just made sense at the time.

This then bumped the new character into Chapter 5, which is well underway, and actually makes my book pass the gender-swapped Bechdel test.  I have more than one male character and they talk to each other about something other than the main female character.

Of course, I still need to pass the actual Bechdel test, but in a book about a society that arranges weekend visits for young, dominant women in the homes of submissives, I'm obviously going to be including a lot of female characters.  Chapter 6 is when we start to meet them, so there's that.  More details on that when I have them, but the writing is certainly going well as of today.

Stay tuned, because after the jump we have a woman wearing leather boots and excerpt from Chapter 5.  Oooo.

I have a page now

I now have an author page on Smashwords.  You should go and have a look at it.

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/lmwilliams

Sadly no books yet, but there's some bumpf about what sort of stories I intend to write.  Also some teasers about a different sort of content, which I remember writing about here.  Time to start a Sissy Party tag for the blog.  I've already got one for the HGS, so...

Interested parties should explore the Smashwords site.  It looks like a good platform.

LMW