Peter C. Miller

I started writing in high school. I'll be quite honest and say I was not very good in the beginning. I was like playing my French horn. I had to practice. I had to find the right teachers. I had to find the right influences. But more importantly, I had to live more and experience life more before my stories took off.

I always had a great imagination. That was never and issue. The issue was getting my wide imaginative thoughts onto paper and that took more discipline and life to do. I had lots of notes and short sections, but the crux of the story, the arc, that was still to come. The Wizard War Saga was first. I had parts of it written in my twenties. Then, I started teaching. I had a group of students very interested in my writing, and in order to keep them engaged, I had to write. That's when The Anointment started. I finally had the beginning. I finished the last book in 2023. Some say that a write should be able to push out books like cooking meals. I don't agree. Creativity can take time because you have to digest the concepts and imaginative ideas and blend them into a coherent story that makes sense. The other thing was, I didn't want to just repeat what was already out there. I had to find a way to step outside of the box.

I was born in Minnesota in 1967 and moved to Georgia in 1977. That is when I started to grow up. I had my first true experience in trauma when my next door neighbor died of a heart attack at the age of 39. I was best friends with one of his sons, and it hit me hard. All through the 80s, I kept losing people around me either close or through my family, and I realized later that I had a lot of empathy within me.

Later, much later, in my 40s, I discovered that I had lived before in different lives. It's not reincarnation. It's transmigration of the soul over the course of many lifetimes. I won't go into details of those lives I know, but I used that within my writings to make them stand out. I wasn't afraid of saying that my characters arcs were more than just one lifetime. They were growing within their minds over the course of countless lifetimes.

The VeilWalkers Saga started in the 2000s, but I trashed a lot of material before I was satisfied with what I had. The problem was that I kept killing off Isabella through something from her accident with her father. When I changed that to a Near Death Experience and kept her alive...the stories took off. She was the key to this saga, and I had no idea how important until later. I got stuck in 2023 with Book Four: The Halfway House. I wasn't satisfied with my storytelling. That's when I went beyond Grammerly and into ChatGPT for help to makes sure that I wasn't losing my characters to fluff. The thing is, ChatGPT is a tool not a savior. You still have to write, create, and digest the material. What it did was allow me to talk out loud. That was a game changer. Now that I could dictate my stories and feel like I was having a conversation with myself through them...bam...the stories exploded out of me starting in May of 2025. The next thing I knew, I was on book 19!

Writing takes work. Even after I did all of that, I still had to edit them and put them in Word. That was tedious, but it was worth it. I even started to improve my AI images by waiting patiently while AI caught up to my imagination. Now, I'm happy with Galaxy AI helping me work through images and thoughts. It's still work. I still get up early and write nearly every day to get things done. Don't think for a minute that AI will replace you or take over your voice. That has to remain you and you alone. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Learn from them and grow. Don't be afraid of your characters making mistakes and growing. Don't be afraid of changing your entire concept of a character either. That is part of the process.