Every year, I go do my best at writing 50,000 words on a single piece of fiction in the month of November. It's had reasonably good results; the first year I didn't make it, the second I did, and the third year I managed to hit 50k on two separate stories. Granted, this is unedited writing, and not exactly high-quality prose, but it's certainly an exercise in getting words on paper.
So here I present excerpts from my NaNoWriMo novels, for those who want to see them. Have at 'em.
2002 |
Grey Feathers |
An unemployed agnostic gets a job offer from an angel. Apparently not believing in angels and demons doesn't keep you from working for them... In the meantime, a demon who hasn't walked the earth since the Roman Empire still ruled travels the country looking for something or someone not particularly well-defined. |
2003 |
Hell is a strange place, even for someone who's lived there all his life. Paine was just trying to scrape by as an underpaid private inspector who got no respect until that fallen angel walked in his door. Now he has enemies he can't identify, a familiar he can't understand, a client he can't trust, and nothing left but the desire to not die. Again. | The Very Strange Edward Paine |
2004 |
Insubstantial |
It started as a search for a lost dog, and then for a lost brother. But X is discovering that there are powers at work she never believed in, ones that have deeper plans than she can realize yet. She hasn't yet decided if having a damned soul giving her advice is an improvement or not. |
2004 |
She's been off adventuring since she was fourteen, and now Isabel's leading her companions back to Yahuar to pay a debt to an old not-quite-friend. Landslides and ghosts aren't about to stop her, but the Yellow City just might. | The Impermanence of Memory |
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