Just finished the storyline for the third book! This marks the end of the first episode in the Cycle of Corruption series, but don't worry, there are going to be more, many more. I'm going to be spending the weekend re-writing the sample chapter according to the feedback I've received and then submitting it for approval again. Hopefully will fare quite well next time around!
As for current storyline progress, I think I'm going to turn my attention to my second favourite mythological creature, werewolves.
Wednesday, 9 December 2009
Friday, 20 November 2009
Update 16
Not much progress sadly due to my concentration being off after a gig on Tuesday, the ringing finally went away Friday evening thankfully.
Managed to make some progress on book 3, but it's tricky when the only idea for the book I had was a massive climactic battle, so now I have to fit in as much storyline as I can around it to make the book not dominated by the battle, but ideas are coming along.
Only waiting on one last piece of feedback for the sample chapter, then I'll rewrite it and send it out again, see how it turns out this time, I can take the waiting if it means the rest of the book will read a lot better.
Managed to make some progress on book 3, but it's tricky when the only idea for the book I had was a massive climactic battle, so now I have to fit in as much storyline as I can around it to make the book not dominated by the battle, but ideas are coming along.
Only waiting on one last piece of feedback for the sample chapter, then I'll rewrite it and send it out again, see how it turns out this time, I can take the waiting if it means the rest of the book will read a lot better.
Friday, 13 November 2009
Update 15
Well I've made a start on book 3 of the series and progress is coming along slowly, got a large number of ideas for this book so I'm hoping it'll be full of interesting content. As I mentioned in Myspace I've had feedback from my sample chapter and can start to see where I'm going wrong, but I'm still waiting for some more to come back to me before I can make a final judgement.
The chapter progression is working well, reading other books has really helped me decide where to put chapter divisions in, got 13 chapters on book 1 so far, so I'll see how many I have by the end and see if I can add or lose some chapters to make for a more appealing number, don't really want to end up with hundreds of chapters.
The chapter progression is working well, reading other books has really helped me decide where to put chapter divisions in, got 13 chapters on book 1 so far, so I'll see how many I have by the end and see if I can add or lose some chapters to make for a more appealing number, don't really want to end up with hundreds of chapters.
Saturday, 7 November 2009
Update 14
As you may have read on the Myspace blog I didn't get much chance to write a whole lot due to getting some really bad news. My writing has been jarred a bit and it's also the reason this update is a day late.
As for actual progress on these books I've been working on ideas for book 3 and for the next group of books in the series. I'm really determined to make this book series into my main work, putting my best ideas and the largest amount of work into the storylines. The ideas have come in quite well and I think I've got enough concept material for another three books to the series, there may be more later on, but for the near future I'm focusing more on the works at hand.
The feedback I've received on the sample chapter has been good so far with only a few small criticisms, but I'm still waiting for a bit more feedback to come back, hopefully there will be some criticism in it.
As for actual progress on these books I've been working on ideas for book 3 and for the next group of books in the series. I'm really determined to make this book series into my main work, putting my best ideas and the largest amount of work into the storylines. The ideas have come in quite well and I think I've got enough concept material for another three books to the series, there may be more later on, but for the near future I'm focusing more on the works at hand.
The feedback I've received on the sample chapter has been good so far with only a few small criticisms, but I'm still waiting for a bit more feedback to come back, hopefully there will be some criticism in it.
Friday, 30 October 2009
Update 13
Well, definitely had a lot more progress than lately with this project, the sample chapter from Heart of Corruption has been completed, proof-read and sent out to a few people. Hopefully I'll get some feedback on the chapter to see if my direction is true or not. Good and bad feedback would be best really, so I can see where I went right and where needs improvement.
On another note, I've finished the storyline for Book 2 today! Wasn't expecting it but I got to an excellent finishing point, ends on a nice cliff-hanger to keep interest going for the third book. Speaking of which, I'll begin the storyline for the third book later on, there are a few more projects in the mean time that I would like to finish before this, besides which, I have a lot to keep me occupied on this project.
On another note, I've finished the storyline for Book 2 today! Wasn't expecting it but I got to an excellent finishing point, ends on a nice cliff-hanger to keep interest going for the third book. Speaking of which, I'll begin the storyline for the third book later on, there are a few more projects in the mean time that I would like to finish before this, besides which, I have a lot to keep me occupied on this project.
Friday, 23 October 2009
Update 12
Been quite productive this week, managed to get the first chapter almost finished, just need to flesh it out a little more before getting it approved. At least I've had a lot more time to write since getting my laptop and coming to Germany. So hopefully I'll have time to work on it and have it completely ready before I head back on Wednesday. Haven't had much of a chance to work on Book 2 storyline though, most of my free time has been taken up with relaxing or writing Book 1.
Friday, 16 October 2009
Update 11
As I mentioned in my Status update, I might not be able to do an update next week due to time constraints while in Germany, I'll do my best but at least you'll know what's going on if you don't see anything next weekend.
As for the status of Cycle of Corruption 2, it's coming along very well, I've even managed to surprise myself, while writing I created a character on the spot and even named them immediately, something which I usually have great difficulty with. On the subject of names I've now gotten a name for all characters involved in the book, granted I borrowed some nice-sounding names from foreign languages but they sounded fitting. ;)
As far as progress is concerned I think the storyline is about 80% or so complete now, which means it'll soon be time to shift my focus to another storyline. Thankfully I'll be taking my laptop to Germany and all the spare time I'll have will allow me to work on the actual writing of Book 1. Which means I'll have that sample chapter ready very soon.
As for the status of Cycle of Corruption 2, it's coming along very well, I've even managed to surprise myself, while writing I created a character on the spot and even named them immediately, something which I usually have great difficulty with. On the subject of names I've now gotten a name for all characters involved in the book, granted I borrowed some nice-sounding names from foreign languages but they sounded fitting. ;)
As far as progress is concerned I think the storyline is about 80% or so complete now, which means it'll soon be time to shift my focus to another storyline. Thankfully I'll be taking my laptop to Germany and all the spare time I'll have will allow me to work on the actual writing of Book 1. Which means I'll have that sample chapter ready very soon.
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