My Author Blog has moved

First off hello, I'm not sure if anyone read this blog or if they would still read it (probably not has been a year i believe) but I am back into writing and blogging. I just finished my university course which means i once again have more time to work on writing.
Unfortunatly me and Blogger have grown apart in this year and... I've moved on, I'm sorry Blogger it's not you it's me... Yeah so I'm on Wordpress now.
peterjtaylorauthor.wordpress.com
I hope to see you there... Is it unprofessional to put a smiley face in a blog post... Just imagine me smiling, if you need more specific details to imagine me smiling just keep in mind that I'm a human and you've pretty much got a good mental picture.

Content edit done

I was in Wales for about a week and over that time the content edit of Abel's Trials was being done. Now i have the paper copy back with many a note scrawled on to it and am back onto word for general fiddling about and fixing mistakes.

The important part about editing as far as i can see is to not get offended. It may be hard sometimes for people to admit they are fallible, it is all too easy to write a story and think "Damn I'm good, how could this ever be improved on, I should share it with the people right now, this will outsell the freeking Bible I tell you!" Well maybe not in those exact words but you get my point, something you pour so much of your heart and time into is always going to be precious to you, even if you don't actively think it.

With editing you can sometimes see the changes and think, this person is wrong this bit is perfect, I explained everything to a tee, but you have to realise that when you have an image in your mind when your writing something down you will always see that image when you read it, even if that doesn't come across when anyone else reads it because you haven't put in quite enough to show what you mean. Or sometimes you know the changes are correct but you just feel bad about it showing the floors in your story that you worked so hard on, you just have to push that all aside and realise its all for the good of the story.

I'm back and editing

I was away in Austin Texas for a week for RTX. Which for all who don't know is the convention for Rooster Teeth who are a company that make comedy content for the internet, they also make the longest running web series which is now at 12 seasons and has been going for about 12 years called Red vs Blue. It was awesome but now its back to normal stuff, and I have sent my Novella to have an overall content edit and have sent it to some friends to give a read through and tell me what they think.

My first surprise was how quick it was to read, my friend Mike read it in less than a day and while logically it wouldn't take that long to read, because i had been writing it for so long it just confused me at how quick it was to get through. Hopefully the editing will be done soon and then i can make the changes needed, I am very exited to see it out there on Amazon but i still have a ways to go.

Finished read through

Finally finished the read through, i have had to change a few things, mostly wording though one or two scenes needed more description to them but overall the story is the same. I'm now working on the very last line as that was something i wasn't sure of when i first wrote it so now I'm putting some serious thought in to what i should put.

Update and slight change of series name

I just finished doing the patch work for the story filling in those sections i skipped. The story is about 1800 now and i need to write the introduction thing and then edit it.

I also during the train trip up to London had a lot of time to think, and the series name is no longer "The Book of Quo" it is now "The Hidden Destiny Chronicles" which i personally think is a much more catchy name.

The story is done!

I have now finished the first draft of Abel's Trials. It's word count is 17300 at the moment but will probably increase a bit when i go through editing since i skimmed over some earlier bits.

I'm going up to London tomorrow for the day to visit my girlfriends end of uni show so I won't be starting my editing then, but on Saturday I will begin. I'm not sure how long the editing will take as my last novella i wrote never ended up being edited it was just a first draft, but i will make sure to keep this blog updated on my progress.

The first thing i have to do is write in the little sections i skimmed to come back to later. Then I will do the introduction which is to tie this book to the future of the series and is also the connection to "The Book of Quo" series name. Then finally i will give it a few read throughs fixing problems as i find them.

Final writing stretch incoming

I am up to around 14700 words now and am encroaching upon the end. There are a few bits i have to go back and write which i ended up skimming over at the beginning for reasons related to knowledge of a certain subject within the world, so when i have finished i will have a tiny bit more writing to do, but after that i will be on to the editing stage.

Feels weird being so close to the end of the journey, but just at the beginning of a much bigger one. I plan on making many more books in this series, some featuring the same characters, other books would more just be around in the same world.

I also have an introduction to write that sets it firmly in the world and just lets all the readers know there is a grander world than just this story, and that fits in with the name of the series "The Book of Quo" If when you read it and like my stories but see it isnt selling or has loads of bad reviews (Which will not happen, or that genie i wished from was a total fake.) or something of that sort, do not fret, for i plan on writing more in this world no matter the reception.