Update 4!

Things have been going very well for this book I have to say, I've pretty much got everything down for the storyline, just a couple of major events to get through and I'll be at the end of Book 1, all the ideas for the events are still in my head, so I'm just needing to pluck the best ones and put them to paper. It's looking like my next update will be saying that the book is ready to be started or has already been started. Here's hoping!

Now, something I was told was that I don't have any information on what this book is about, so here you go, a little taste of what to expect.

The Cycle of Corruption is a series of books currently planned as a trilogy but if I develop more ideas then I can easily add more books to the series. The setting is somewhat of a traditional fantasy world, the swords and sorcery kind that is. The book focuses heavily around dragons rather than humans, centred largely around a single dragon's life and the journey he goes through, from his birth to some very significant parts of his life that may just change the fate of the world.

Update 3

As I mentioned, now we'll have my proper update.

Over the week there have been many new developments in my book, I've got names for all of the major areas concerned in the books, so the map itself can get completed without problems, but the map hasn't shown much progress yet. There's also been a new character implemented, not to mention a new bunch of storyline twists and alterations this character brings.

I've been making huge advances with the storyline itself and even gotten a few future ideas, as well as brought in ways to explain certain things in the book.

So really everything is going very well, as always, feel free to leave comments or ask me any questions, I'm always happy to get to know people interested in this project. :)

Also over the coming few days I'm going to attempt to set up blog sits for my other projects, so keep an eye out on my Myspace hub site for the links to those. :)

Bye for now!

Bit of a change around and previous updates

Yeah, there's been a slight change of plan with the blogs. Rather than this being my general writing blog, it's now entirely focused on the Cycle of Corruption books. The Myspace blog is now the hub of my writing in general, my aim is to have several blogspot blogs, each of them solely focused on one of my projects.

For the benefit of new followers, I'll include my previous two updates before writing a new one.

Update 1:

As it stands I have all of my characters named for the book, I also have a book title (at last), which is “Heart of Corruption” and a series/trilogy (depending how many I decide to write) name too! Which is “Cycle of Corruption”. Seems to be a bit of a theme here…

As far as the actual writing progress has started the book hasn’t even been properly touched yet, I’m getting together the basic plotline to help with the writing process and try to minimise instances of writer’s block. As far as the plotline goes I’d estimate I’ve got a solid plot for about half (or more) of the book, as well as ideas to happen later on in the books, not to mention an ending. And there may already be brief storyline ideas for another two books somewhere in my home computer.

Update 2:

Progress on the storyline is steadily evolving, at the moment I’m facing a bit of an idea gap, I’ve gotten ideas all the way up to this point and an ending, so now I’m having to push myself to think of events and storyline to go between now and the end of the book, I have one small idea for future use but that’s somewhat minor. It’s a little tough but I’ll persevere.

I’m also starting to compile a list of fantasy publishers so I have an idea of the market, if either of you have any suggestions for publishers you’ve seen around, feel free to send them to my hotmail address.

Also, I’ve started work on something that no fantasy book is complete without, a MAP! Or rather, a series of maps. I’ve gotten an idea for the ‘world map’ and that’s down on paper (but subject to alteration). As for the other maps, they’ll be more detailed sections of the world map that the individual books deal with. My overall idea on the maps is to have to world map at the start of every book and then in the first book have a second map which shows the areas the story deals with, same for the following books.

Breathing life into the blog!

Not really an actual entry, more an announcement that this will be the primary location of my book series blog. I'll post up links to the other locations of it to keep things together, but juggling so much currently (as well as having to clean the house up) that it's all work in progress so far. Check back often for the first official book update!