Hi, my name is Daniel. I'm a debut novelist. My book, a thriller, entitled The Pirates of Aden was published April 2011. I will discuss how I went about writing the book and in particular how I went about revising the book. I'll show excerpts of my first draft, try to analyze what was good/bad about it and how I changed it. I hope it will be helpful to people working on their first novel, particularly if they are writing a thriller.