New Years Day

Happy New Year! That's what everyone's saying, you walk outside into the heat of a hot, muggy, Australian summer day and you're bombarded by the sounds of a million cicadas wishing you a happy new year.

A year has come and gone and I'm just amazed, I just can't seem to wrap my head around it all. It seems really short but sometimes looking at it you realise that it wasn't short at all. The thing I have trouble getting my head around is the fact that it's only been one year that has just past. So much happened last year that I kept thinking at least 2 or 3 years past. It's just... really weird.

All and all it wasn't too bad of a year. I turned 16, got an amazing girlfriend, lost my amazing girlfriend but still remain best friends with her so that's not bad at all. Got my learners, became better friends with my friends, got to know my God better, which is totally true. Finished year 11, self-published my very first book, wrote another one that I plan on self-publishing this year. Went to my first concert (Bon Jovi you rock!), and made some great new friends. (This is not in the order that it happened, I couldn't be bothered writing it in chronological order.)

And it's day one of a brand new year and already I see it as being a busy year. I have year 12 to complete, 6 months to finish writing my new book and edit it until gleams with correct SPaG, about 70 or so hours to clock up in driving, and I'm quite sure that a great many unforeseen things will happen before this year is out. Some of it will be great and some of it will be sad I'm sure, there is not much way of knowing. But I enter this year gladly.

I wish you all out there a great year!

-Peter.

Latest update

So today is the 2nd of December. A great many people are thinking about Christmas and all the things that thinking about Christmas brings, such as putting up the tree, putting the decorations on the tree, setting up that tinsel, the lights, the fake snow, arranging to go out shopping, wrapping of presents. And well, you know the rest.

For me, I'm not thinking about Christmas, I have other things in mind. Mainly this, last month was NaNoWriMo and I wrote just over 72k. This was a good effort, I'm happy with it. Now what happens is I have an almost finished book with an ending I can't touch until I've edited and re-written the beginning part of my book.

So I've sort of started on this, I've given the first two chapters a quick edit and I'll go through the book and give the whole thing a quick edit before going through it again and giving it a deeper edit. I have another 6 months to do this in but I made it last year so I should be able to do it this year. Of course the difference being is that this year my book is a lot longer and it's not even finished yet. Oh well, it ought to be fun.

In other news, yesterday afternoon I got back from a youth camp I attended down in New South Wales at a place called Lennox Head. It's near the beach. It was really fun even though it rained all Friday night and the whole morning of Saturday so we couldn't go down to the beach like we had planned, but that was all right. We had fun. It was nice to relax and not think about my book. Of course now that I'm home my book is all I can think about  I had better get back to it.

Can you believe it?

Yes, can you believe it, I actually lost this blog. I completely forgot that I had even started it or even had it for that matter! But now that I've found it I'm going to make sure that I update it as often as I can and bring this to life.

So, first things first, an update. My last blog post I see I said that I was busy editing, well, I've finished editing. I finished in late July and published my novel The Story of Silence a week later. You can find it on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Story-Silence-Peter-Van-Werkhoven/dp/1481926616/ref=la_B00DOM8UZS_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381812620&sr=1-1
And Createspace: https://www.createspace.com/4096745
And as soon as I work out how to format it correctly it will be up on Smashwords.

No, what else? Oh yes, in a little over two weeks it will be November which means for quite a lot of writers all over the world, NaNoWriMo. I will be entering that again this year and writing a new novel which could sort of be classed as a sequel to last year's, the story above. I won't tell you exactly what it's about due to it maybe containing spoilers for The Story of Silence. I can tell you the name of it though, it's called Lights and Shadows. It'll be a mystery like the other one.

Besides publishing and planning for my next novel I don't think there is any other big news to tell. So until further notice, goodbye!