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I recognise that I'm probably making something of a rod for my own back with this decision when it comes to future books in the Tutelam Venit series, but I've decided I AM going to give the chapters thier own titles.

The response I got to yesterday's post was quite clearly, "Yes! We like chapter headings", so that's what I'm going to do. Actually, once I'd made the decsion, and started making up the titles, it turned out to be a lot easier than I thought. I quickly went back and 'on instinct' so to speak, gave titles to the chapters I'd already edited. Hopefully they do the job I want - which is to say they pique your interest without giving away the plot.

I'll give the remianing 21 (yes, I said 21) chapters that I have to edit titles as I edit them.

So, want a sneak peek?

Of course you do. Here iare the chapter headings of the prologue and first ten chapters of Tutelam Venit 1 : A Good Man

Prologue - You’re Going to Miss Him
1 - Mister not My Cester
2 - The First Day of School
3 - The World Turned on its Head
4 - There’s No Rule Against It
5 - Something in Common
6 - Double Date
7 - Warned Off
8 - What Have I Done?
9 - Routine
10 - Lily

So, did it work? Are you now sitting there wondering what all this means? There won't be too much longer to wait, I promise you. I'm getting through these edits pretty quick, and once that's done, I can set a release date.Ìý

[image error]"" has chapter headings. They're not very good. "" doesn't have chapter headings and neither does "" but what "Eternally & Evermore" does have is dialogue quotes at the start each chapter. I like them. I think they work quite well.

But what about “A Good Man�? Should it have chapter headings? Or should I dig out dialogue quotes like I did with “E&E�? It’s a question I’ve been wrestling with for a while.

Part of me really quite likes to see chapters have titles in books I’m reading. It piques my interest right at the start when looking at the table of contents. I’ve also found it really quite useful when reading e-books that you jump around using the TOC. Chapter headings seems more memorable somehow than just chapter numbers.

But, and here’s the thing, I’m really, really bad at coming up with chapter headings. No, I mean, seriously bad. Hell, I’m bad enough at coming up with book titles, why would I be any better at giving each chapter a name? And “A Good Man� has 47 chapters, plus a prologue and epilogue. That’s forty-nine different headings to come up with.

So, dearest reader of mine, what do you think? Do you like chapter headings? Did the dialogue quotes in “Eternally & Evermore� work? Or would “A Good man� be better served with nothing more than chapter numbers?Tell me what you think. It might actually help me make a decision. You can comment on this thread, or drop me an e-mail.

Just a quick update, sinceI realise it's been a couple of weeks since my last one.

I'm just about half-way through the edit of the book now. Things seem to be going well and I'm pretty pleased with the way this is working out. One of the nice things about having completed first draft of any book, is that you can go back to the early chapters and foreshadow what's to come. That's what I'm doing with some of these. Of course, this is the first of a series of books, and while it would be nice to foreshadow what's to come in the future books, I haven't exactly written them yet, so that would be hard.

Okay, so if I'm honest, I haven't even properly got the plot of the next two books fully worked out. I have a sketch. But it needs some fleshing. I'm not worried, though. It'll come together. It always does (famous last words?)

Last week proved to be a terribly busy one in various ways. Things at work went a bit mad and my "to do" list actually lengthened rather than shortened. And things at home have been pretty hectic too. On top of that, I've been spending what little quality 'me' time I have been able to grab catching up on the latest season of Torchwood. I missed two weeks through going on holiday, and haven't wanted to watch the episodes that aired since I got back out of sequence. The season finale is this week, and I'm only one episode behind now, so I should be able to sit down on Thursday night ready for the big pay off.

So that all means I've done no more editing since my last post and I'm still only fifteen chapters in. Hopefully, that'll change this week.

Oh, and one more thing. I got my Google+ invitation this week. I haven't sat down and worked it out yet, but my google profile for those who might want to add me is .

Just a quick update. I’ve now edited fifteen of the book’s forty-nine chapters (which includes a prologue and epilogue). So that’s just under a third of the book edited. Cool.

One thing I’m doing as I go along is to make a list of the characters and locations that appear in the novel. I want to do this with my other book s as well to create a kind of encyclopaedia so why not start with the book I’m currently working on?

As I’m a third of the way through the book’s edit, here’s the current (and so incomplete) list of characters.

ÌýMicester High Students (Subjects Taken)

Paul Robertson (Maths, English Lit, French)
Clarissa Liddington (English Lit, Maths)
Kevin Bootes
Billy Jackson (Maths)
Emily White (English Lit,)
Grace Adams (English Lit,)
Ellie Wells
Kelly Anderson (English Lit,)
Lauren Simms
Lisa Simms
Gavin Davies
Lee Green
Lily Williams


Adults

Vicky Robertson
Christine Liddington
Jake Rogers
Miss Hannah Pattison (English Teacher)
Mr Bob McCarthy (Maths Teacher)
Pete Williams
Will Brown
Tom Chapman
George Chapman
Old Man Jones


ÌýMicester Town Players

Del Stevens
Mike Thornton
Walker

And yes, that is Will Brown from "Eternally & Evermore".ÌýIntrigued?