A lot of things have been happening with the Knight's Journey series. I found an editor (with help from my girlfriend Carissa) and she is now in the process of working on my story. I don't think that I could have edited my own story. I tried to read through it but it's really hard to read something that I wrote (though not because the story or the writing is bad). I find it very hard to focus on my own story because I know how it goes. Because of this, I continually overlook small details and continuity errors. After rewriting the whole first part of the book (as well as a large chunk of the middle) I found it difficult to notice the small errors that occurred where the revisions and the original text overlap.
Anyways, I have been working on the outline for book 2. Writing a book series certainly is a large project (though I enjoy the work). It has been very difficult lately to focus and work on book one. After all, I had already finished the book and then gone back to drastically edit and rewrite large sections of it. Once the story was complete, I thought that the work was over. I did not realize how much more would be required after the completion of the novel in order to make it ready for publication and in order to spread the word about the book. It will probably sound naive, but I had hoped that I could publish the finished book and that readers would gradually recognize its potential. So I worked on creating a website and a Facebook page and a Twitter and this blog, and the maintaining them all has been difficult. But there are some fun aspects as well. The website and the blog will allow me to post fun information about my world that I wouldn't otherwise get to share with readers through the books. I look forward to that because there was a lot of worldbuilding that went into the creation of Eos. There is much more to the land than just what you see in the books, and it will be interesting to see how readers like such information. I look forward to compiling it all and making it accessible (don't worry, there won't be any spoilers).
Now that I have a website and stuff and my novel is out being edited, I finally have time to sit down and outline book 2 and book 3. I am very grateful to be able to return to working on the actual creation of my stories. While it has been fun and rewarding to prepare book one for publication, my true passion is the actual writing. It is fun to plan and see where the story goes. I know how the story is going to progress, but there are a lot of small decisions that seem to change the story, like where the characters go and how fast the story should progress. But the work is fun and it is going well. I cannot wait until the outline for book two is ready and I can begin work on a draft of the story.
I want to get back to working on my story, so I think this will be the end of my post. But I will make sure to write again soon.
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