Friday, October 16, 2015

Geometry of Souls Update

I am writing the last chapter tonight for Geometry of Souls.  I am so proud that I have got another book under my belt.  I am going to spend tomorrow editing this book.  Then once I am done editing it I shall put it up on Amazon with a free promotion for the first week of sales. 
Personally I think Geometry of Souls in some ways will be even more fun to read then the first book, since I am not setting things up about the world as much in this one.  Plus this one will feature the Sleeping Ones, which are awesome, along with the Nathrak.  I don't want to say too much on it.

Also now that I have finished Geometry of Souls I am going to focus on getting Zmeij written up now that I have the first 2 books in the Ashes of the Fallen Series finished.  Zmeij will be a standalone book, unless I get huge sales from it.  I have an idea for a prequel to Zmeij, but I am not going to write it unless people are interested in the world of Zmeij.  My main goal is to get the next two Ashes of Fallen Books (Maneuvers of Transposition and Zugzwang) finished.  I will probably be writing the third Ashes of the Fallen Book at the same time as Zmeij, but going to focus mainly on Zmeij.  That's my plans for writing.  Type more at you later.

Map Making

I have a map drawn up for Easdal, but I drew it on too big of paper to scan it up, sadly.  So I am trying to redraw them up on the computer instead of by end.  So far it's going okay, but then I've only just started.  The thing I hate about drawing maps is that I am never satisfied with how my trees come out looking.  Mountains and rivers and borderlines are all easy to draw to me, but for some reason I just can't get the feel of trees right.  Here is hoping I can do them better on the PC then by hand.  Secondly I don't have the money for an expensive art program on the PC so I am using MS Paint so here is hoping it all comes together okay.

Not much more to say, except that at some point I am going to be doing another upload to my first book.  I noticed some glaring mistakes of grammar on my part and I intend to correct them along with a few other changes I am making, such as name changes; one being the change of the race of alfs I called Aeshiri in the book, I decided that I prefer the term Aesir, even if this should get them confused with a group of Norse Gods, which was my original concern, but after talking with a friend decided to change the name back to Aesiri, as it sounds better to the ear.  Not much more to say so I'll type more when I have more.

Sunday, October 11, 2015

Yet another Update

I finally finished Chapter 28 of G.O.S.  I only have chapters 29 and 30 left to write up.  If I get those 2 chapters written before the weekend then I plan on spending my Friday and Saturday editing Geometry of Souls.  Once I have edited it I shall have it posted up Kindle with a free offer deal for those that are interested in a free copy of the next collection of this work.
Not much more to say so I shall end it here.

Friday, October 9, 2015

Chapter Update

I am almost down with writing up Chapter 28 of Geometry of Souls, that means just two more chapters and it's time for me to start editing Geometry of Souls.  If I have off to work on editing it shouldn't take me more then a few days to knock out the editing and then the book will be ready for you on the Kindle.  Things only get more interesting and exciting as this series goes, but that's just my opinion.

Not much more to say, so I'll end this update here.  Oh, last thing, I am going to be making changes to Book 1 in the near future, but this changes are minor and not important to the overall story, it is simply I have debated a few name changes on the races in my world and making corrections where there are mistyped names of characters such as Ryner instead of the proper spelling for his name of Reyner, and changing the name of the Aeshir back to the Aesir as it was in my original draft.  Personally I think Aesir and Aesiri sounds better then Aeshir, at first I was worried people would associate them with the Norse gods, but since so much of this story's language is influenced by such sources I decided to say to hell with it and change it back to the original name for earth alfs.  These corrections will be seen when I come out with the omnibus, which I am titling "Conspiracies in the Shadows".  Although the title may change depending on if I come up with something that I like better.   Type more later when I have more to type.

Friday, October 2, 2015

Finished Chapter 25

Finally. It's taken forever, but I finally finished Chapter 25 of Geometry of Souls.  I have chapter 26 already written up, so the only remaining chapters that need writing are those of 27,28,29, and lastly 30 since I already wrote up the Epilogue for this one.  Things are starting to get really good and I hope people will enjoy Geometry of Souls when I finally get it out. I had hoped to have it finished by now, but with things being busy, and my usual laziness I haven't done much work on it.  But now I am coming towards the end I hope that Geometry of Souls (GOS), is finished by the end of this month, October.  Once I get done writing it I'll go over and edit it as I put it into a word document so that I can upload it onto the Kindle.
For those that do not know my writing process perhaps I should talk a little about it here as I don't think I've talked about in my blogs before.  I do a lot of my writing in 2 places.  The primary place I do my writing is the Nook Press Website.  It formats it for the Nook so I don't have to worry about formatting when it comes to that, plus I like the layout and how it works.  My secondary place I write is my cellphone's text messaging.  I get ideas for stories and scenes and rpg material while I walk to work, so I often write it as text message and then save it to draft.  Although it's annoying when I am transferring over to Nook Press and my phone locks and then I have to unlock it so I can continue typing.  My third place I write is jotting things down on a piece of paper or using the typewriter in my living room.
Well not much else to say, except that I need to go back to working on GOS, so I shall type more when I have more type.

(For those interested in reading my first novel Ashes of the Fallen: In the Shadows:
Here is a link to the book's print form:  Ashes of the Fallen Volume 1: In the Shadows: Paperback
Here is a link to the book on Kindle/Amazon: In the Shadows Kindle Edition )