Mikelaing74

Usually I'm always going to go for characters rather than the plot. If I cannot identify with the characters, then I'm not going to be able t get not the plot. But at the same time if there is a not a strong enough plot to support the characters, then it's going to be a really tough read for me.

I love Gone From Daylight and Savage Moon, actually there's not a lot you write that I dislike It's just the length of the chapters that kills me, you know when it's three in the morning and you think, 'I'll just finish this chapter !'

Pet peeve ? People who bend corners on my books even when I give them a book mark ( evil and must die ) Snuggle bunny not hanging his towel up after taking a shower ! People expecting me to be civil before I've had my first cup of coffee in the morning.

I've seen quite a few 'gay movies'. I loved Beautiful Thing, along with Priscilla. But I think one of my all time favorites has to be 9 dead gay guys. I just loved the premise and the humor in the movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0336910/

Saying I love you for the first time with my current snuggle bunny took me months. Both of us still don't say it that often, it's preferable for us to show each other through our actions, rather than words. But I still get butterflies in my stomach when we're snuggled on the sofa and he just says it spontaneously.

This is an interesting topic for me. I was diagnosed as being bi-polar around my twenty second birthday, so pretty much straight after university. I've lived with it since then. Depression is a truly horrible illness as there are no outward signs to say that you're not well, and you get sick of people telling you you're just having a 'bad day'. As I've said many times to people, I wish for just one day everyone could suffer the illness to give them better insight as to what happens. As for the idea that the patient causes the illness, well that's a difficult one to answer. I can only talk about it from my point of view. I work in an IT environment, I run the network for a local council and provide service to upward of 25,000 people on a daily basis. So my job is a little bit high pressure My trigger for the depression is stress pure and simple. Recently I've been involved with the investigation of an employee who was misusing IT systems. The employee was dismissed, but then they appealed the decision. Once the appeal had been dismissed we then got to a situation where the professional body was investigating the ex-employee with a view to revoking their credentials. So I had to go testify at yet another hearing. This has been going on since December 2010 and finally it got to be too much for me. Since the beginning of the year I've been suffering really bad anxiety attacks, as well as being in a depressed state. In my case part of the blame for me being in this state is because I didn't seek help earlier when I first noticed the symptoms. But I'm cursed with wanting to be at work all the time, it gives my life a structure. But then you also have to take into account that by taking time off work, you feel like ( I certainly do ) a failure. Which again makes things worse. So I can't say the patient causes the episode, but in my case specifically I know I had a role to play in it.

Liked the story and the way you kept us guessing right to the then Mike

Thanks Conner

Thank you for the kind words

Andy, thanks for that. I know it's ambitious to build a world, but from what I've got n my head at the moment I can see this running into three parts. I take your point about the spirits, but in my head they've evolved with the rest of the population. As I mentioned in the first chapter they watch, so presumably they listen as well. I hope to post another chapter in the next two weeks or so. Mike

Thanks Kiltie, it's much appreciated.

When the light is cast into darkness, And trouble is loosed upon the land, When all seems lost, despair not, For one will come forth with the power to shape the universe, They shall be marked as friend to the ancients, But be despised and feared, Save those who will guide and protect, And in their sacrifice, shall that which was riven be re-joined, But whether to darkness or light, only time will tell. They gathered in a cave high in the mountains. Indistinct in one sense, but very dis

On a world where both science and magic exist, one is prophesised to come who can balance both. But in order to achieve that balance they will need to overcome their own limitations. Will they succeed, or pay the ultimate price for failure ?

I really hope this story continues, there is just so much can be done with it ! I'm getting well addicted to comicalitys work !!!

Well I've finally gotten round to putting a profile pic up, so here you go.

Favorite quote from a movie : Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey : "You might be a King or a simple street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the reaper !" Book, Guardians of the West by David Eddings : "Silk, if you don't know by now to bring all of these little problems to me, you will never learn." Saying, from Finland I believe : "You're conversation should be better than silence, if it isn't - be silent"

Ok here we go : Physical : Short to medium height ( I'm not that tall, and don't like having a stiff neck ! ) Short Hair Clear Eyes Clean Shaven Personality Intelligent Free Thinker Affectionate Imaginative Uninhibited Lifestyle Honesty Not afraid to have fun Anything else is negotiable for me

It's shocking that something like this has happened so close to where I now live. I've lived here for seven years and I love it up here. Who'd a thunk it ? An Englishman who prefers Scotland to his home country ! But I agree that the police should finish their investiation before any conculsions are drawn.

Hi, I'm Mike ( Never Michael unless you want me to call you mummy ) Just recently joined and plowed my way through the Kandric saga ! As well as four or five others, really enjoying the site ! M

Ok, I've just finished reading the whole of this story, and I have to say that it's unlike any other gay related fiction I've ever read. The lands where we meet Kandric are just so well developed, you can almost see them. The same goes for the characters of the story, you begin to feel a real empathy for them. I've spent the past five days pretty much glued to my iPad working my way through this epic I would call it, and it's a well spent five days. The only downside to being finished is I'm left desparate for more. I can't wait for more installments of the story, I want to see how things develop and come to conclude. Top marks, excellant piece of work ! M