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S.W. Raine is 67% done with The Gatekeeper's Portal (The Elementals Trilogy, #2)
Chapter 24 is done being edited. This round of edits is my beta reader feedback implementation and added description/internalization before sending everything my editor.

Alpha reader feedback implementation took way longer than expected, but it's almost done now!
— Jun 12, 2025 08:12AM Add a comment
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S.W. Raine
S.W. Raine is 95% done with The Gatekeeper's Portal (The Elementals Trilogy, #2)
Implementing alpha reader feedback has been a journey! Thanks to my alpha readers (and reviewers for TEG), it's practically a whole new book. I have 3 chapters left before it goes to beta readers. I'm so excited to see what they think!
— Jun 21, 2024 06:16AM Add a comment
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S.W. Raine
S.W. Raine is 21% done with The Gatekeeper's Portal (The Elementals Trilogy, #2)
This latest chapter has a lot of really big changes. I had to research Moscow, Russia, and the time it takes to get anywhere, which was NOT what I had originally written. But that's okay. Each draft will make the finished product all that much better.

And now that my son is out of school, I have a lot more time to catch up on being behind. Hooray!
— Jun 14, 2023 11:50AM Add a comment
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S.W. Raine
S.W. Raine is 21% done with The Gatekeeper's Portal (The Elementals Trilogy, #2)
Woo, buddy. Things have been complicated, and I'm fighting a burnout of EVERYTHING. Hopefully I'll be able to get back into the swing of things after my son's last day of school this Friday... because I'm horribly behind in my alpha reader feedback implementation.
— Jun 07, 2023 06:36AM Add a comment
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S.W. Raine
S.W. Raine is 7% done with The Gatekeeper's Portal (The Elementals Trilogy, #2)
Eureka!

I'd been stuck trying to fix my slow pacing issue for what seems like forever now. It's a race against the clock as this goes to my beta readers in May, but the more the month flew by, the more my stress level became unbearable.

Thanks to a writer friend explaining to this Pantser how outlines work by using Marvel movie examples, I finally broke through the block!

Here's to fixing the pacing issue. Onward!
— Apr 14, 2023 05:31AM Add a comment
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S.W. Raine
S.W. Raine is 3% done with The Gatekeeper's Portal (The Elementals Trilogy, #2)
The next phase has started! I'm currently going through alpha reader feedback and adding more description and introspection to my bare-bones draft.
— Apr 05, 2023 01:07PM Add a comment
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S.W. Raine
S.W. Raine added a status update
The Elemental's Guardian is out now! Thank you all for your support.

Here, have a snippet!

— Feb 22, 2023 10:50AM Add a comment


S.W. Raine
S.W. Raine added a status update
Two more weeks until release! Here's a snippet to hold you over.

— Feb 01, 2023 06:10PM Add a comment

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S.W. Raine added a status update
Less than a month left! Here. Have a snippet.

— Jan 25, 2023 10:54AM Add a comment

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S.W. Raine added a status update
It's Wednesday! Less than a month until the release of The Elemental's Guardian, so here. Have a snippet!
— Jan 18, 2023 06:53AM Add a comment


S.W. Raine
S.W. Raine added a status update
It's Wednesday. Here, have a snippet!

— Jan 04, 2023 09:29AM Add a comment


S.W. Raine
S.W. Raine added a status update
It's Wednesday! Here, have a snippet!

— Dec 28, 2022 05:35PM Add a comment

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S.W. Raine added a status update
It's Wednesday! Have a snippet.

— Dec 14, 2022 07:03AM Add a comment

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