Very Few Updates

I know I haven't posted anything in this blog for several weeks now. I've just been busy or distracted with other stuffs that I was not able to focus on my books.

I'm back on that "lazy mode" again. I dunno when will I be able to write Chronos Arcanum with as much speed and gusto as I did on The Glacial Tempest.

Anyway, here's something for you, readers:

My cousin already submitted her final drawing of Erin, and I just recently edited it to be TGT's book cover.

What do you think, guys? Does it look eye-catching enough? *grins*

Going back, I'm more than halfway through proofreading TGT, so I'm nearing its true completion.

I hope I finish it by the end of this year. Ha ha. Yes, yes, I know.

I will post here again if I encounter anything interesting regarding the book series, or if I have finally finished writing CA Chapter 1.

Well, good luck with all of us! I hope you enjoyed reading my stories.

Chronos Arcanum!

Well, my artist likes to take her sweet time with the cover drawing for The Glacial Tempest. *shrug* So I guess I might not be able to show it to you any time soon.

Anyway, for the main topic, Chronos Arcanum! I have completed the prologue, and was planning on posting it here after I finish chapter 1, but inevitable delays prevent me from finishing the chapter as quickly as I hoped, so I'm going to post the prologue here now~

You can find the link on the right side of the blog. *thumbs up* Hope you guys enjoy it, it's over 9000! The word count, that is. Heh.

My very first written creation for this book series was actually the Chronos Arcanum prologue. I first wrote it when I was in high school, several years ago. However, since I was a young boy back then, and I didn't have enough creativity to write a whole book, I stopped writing after the prologue. What I did mostly was change and refine the prologue over and over again! But I never moved past it.

Eventually, I managed to write chapter 1! Unfortunately, I was too young to have thought of the concept "backup", so when my computer had to be reformatted, I lost all of my works! It was a good thing I posted the prologue in my Facebook account (on My Notes) before, although it was not the updated and refined version. Nevertheless, I'm glad I still have a remnant of my story.

Now, when I finally finished writing The Glacial Tempest, I prepared myself to go back to the book that started it all....

It was so funny, looking back, and seeing that there were still so many grammatical errors on my work even with all the "refining" and such! And another funny thing, I have changed so many major concepts when I was writing The Glacial Tempest that when I read Chronos Arcanum once more, half of it was now off-course. *laughs*

Well, after yet another set of renovations, here it is! I'm halfway through chapter 1, and the prologue is yours to enjoy and/or criticize. *grins*

TAKE NOTE, however, that The Glacial Tempest is the prequel of Chronos Arcanum, so the latter uses some of the elements in the former. Understand that when you read the CA prologue, you might get a small glimpse (or spoiler) on how Erin's story ended.

NOTE: My first real written creation was actually an unfinished novel called "Scarlet (something)", which was about a blood-red gem that contained all essence of evil. I forgot the whole title, or if it was actually just Scarlet. Meh. I only managed to write two chapters of it, too, before I lost it from yet another reformatting. I didn't write for more than a year after that, and when I started writing again, I already had a whole new story: the Chronos Arcanum. I wrote Scarlet (something) when I was thirteen years old, I think? Give or take a year.

The Glacial Tempest has been... finally completed!

Long have I dreamed for the day when I rename the word document of my compiled finished chapters into "The Glacial Tempest (Manuscript)", and I finally have!

I have just finished writing and proofreading the epilogue midnight before June 8th.

It took me more than half a year to write this book, and I have finally completed it! I have never had a project this big that I followed through, and the feeling I got from this accomplishment was sheer pleasure.

Let me give you something to help imagine how thick The Glacial Tempest is:
- It's over 82,000 words!
- If a chapter ends, the next chapter automatically skips to the next page, so there are some pages that are not completely filled with words. Anyway, with the format Times New Roman size 12 and no line spacing, the manuscript contains 152 short bond paper pages! That's a lot of pages. Heh.

Tomorrow, I shall print the first ever full draft of this book! The draft, however, would only be exclusive to me--I'll be using the draft to proofread the story one last time before making it an official manuscript. After that, I shall print more copies for friends and relatives to receive their views on my story.

While that happens, I'm going to start on my next project:
The Chronicles of the Dark Arcanist: Chronos Arcanum
- That's actually the first book of the series. *laughs* And now that I have a firm concept from which the elements of the other books will stem from, I will have a steady storyline throughout all my books! This is a big goal, and I am willing to reach it.

I still have one last freebie for you guys, but I still have to wait for it to be completed.
Unfortunately, it's not TGT - Chapter 5. The preview stops on chapter 4. I'm sorry~

TGT is going to cost me and arm (not a leg) to print, I'm sure, but I guess it's all worth it!

Once again, thank you for reading my ramblings. I hope this story gets far, just for the sake of immortalizing my characters and my world. =)

TGT - Chapter 12 (previously chapter 11) Completed!

First, a short explanation: after writing the storyline of Chapter 11: Ayden Cross of Renizen, I have noticed that it's better suited between chapters "Her Curse and Her Redemption" and "Erin's Last Stand". So I have decided to place it as the twelfth chapter instead. From now on I shall refer to this chapter as chapter 12.

So yeah, I have finally finished chapter 12! *cheers*

And you know what's very surprising about this chapter? I initially thought that it would not reach the original chapter goal of at least 5,500 words. Instead, it has reached over a whopping 6,200 words! That's  insanely awesome, I'm telling you!

I have finished its initial proofreading, but it still needs a final proofreading, along with chapters 13 and 14 to make sure chapter 11's storyline is on par with the others.

Now, my... final... target... is the short epilogue. After that... it's all over. The book's completed! This is so fun; months of mind-grinding writing has finally paid off. One more "chapter", and it's all over. So fun! *sighs happily*

To share my enthusiasm, I have already posted the promised Chapter 4: Love to Hatred Turned on the upper right side of this blog! Enjoy reading!

NOTE: I shall begin the epilogue either tomorrow or once I finish proofreading. Maybe tomorrow. I dunno. Thank you, and good night~!

Another TGT - Chapter 11 Progress Report!

That was a pleasant surprise! An extension of the side plot that I have recently thought of enabled to increase the thickness of chapter 11 significantly more that I would have expected.

More good news; although I have not yet finished writing chapter 11 (I haven't even gotten to around half of it), what I have already written on it has already exceeded my whole book's 78,000 words target goal! Awesome! Now I can write the rest of the book with no worries in terms of length.

So nice... so nice.

As a treat, I'm going to put TGT Chapter 4 up on this blog after I finish chapter 11, not after chapter 11 and the epilogue.

Thank you for reading my ramblings! Heh.

TGT - Chapter 11 Progress~

I have foreseen that chapter 11 would also not reach its original goal of 5,500 words, but that's quite fine! I have enough side plot for chapter 11 to reach the whole book's 78,000-word goal. Hurray!

If I'm going to write tomorrow, I might actually finish chapter 11 then. Plus another day for the epilogue, and... *gasps* I'm finally done. D-O-N-E.

The book that took me oh so long to write is finally coming to a close! Never have I had a project as big as this that I have actually finished!

No... wait... technically, I still haven't finished with The Glacial Tempest, so, I guess I should not start celebrating for something that I have not yet actually achieved. *sheepish grin*

I'll keep you ghosts--I mean guys and gals--updated. *nods*

TGT - Chapter 14 Completed!

The last chapter of my book The Glacial Tempest has been finally completed!

Although, it was disappointingly shorter than the other chapters--only 3,700+ words long.

Nevertheless, the ending has been set, and what remains are chapter 11 and the epilogue.

Also, I just finished enrolling for the next semester, which starts on June 13th. I might be able to finish this book by then. And by finish I mean the content; I would still have to read the whole book all over again for proofreading, and then hire a (slightly affordable, if not cheap) professional proofreader to go over the whole book for mistakes I might have missed.

Well, better get started with the unwritten chapters, then! Thanks for reading my ramblings. Wish me luck?

NOTE: I shall post TGT Chapter 4 on this blog once I finish chapter 11 and the epilogue, which hopefully might be before school starts on the thirteenth. *thumbs up*