PerNoWriMo: Heedless, Chapter 5
Posted by Krepta on January 29th, 2009 filed in HeedlessComment now »
By now it should be clear to everyone, especially me, that I’m not going to make my Personal Novel Writing Month deadline for January. That’s fine; the novel will still get finished no matter what. This part was delayed by a few things besides laziness, though, like having to rewrite it a couple of times due to mechanical failures.
Heedless, Chapter 4.3
Posted by Krepta on January 12th, 2009 filed in HeedlessComment now »
“OK, OK, you can cut it out, Cassandra. Tell me about your night with… the vampire,” she said theatrically.
“That’s not fucking funny, Laura.”
PerNoWriMo: Heedless, Chapter 4.2
Posted by Krepta on January 11th, 2009 filed in HeedlessComment now »
(Fell off the wagon for a couple of days there, I admit it– let’s see if I can catch up with multiple posts per day.)
The drive to Shelly’s house had been even smoother than Shelly’s famous eggnog. Whatever Josh spent keeping this Porsche in such fabulous condition was most apparent to the driver, not the passenger. Liane had never been very sure of herself when driving stick, but the Porsche’s transmission was truly intuitive and elegant in its design. If Apple made cars instead of iPods, she thought, this would be it. She hadn’t enjoyed driving this much since her eighth birthday, when she’d gotten to scoot a golf cart around her uncle’s trailer home for an afternoon.
PerNoWriMo: Heedless, Chapter 4.1
Posted by Krepta on January 8th, 2009 filed in HeedlessComment now »
Chapter 4: January 23rd, 2007
The fire chief tilted her head down to look at Liane from over her glasses, raising one eyebrow. “A vampire.”
“I’m almost sure of it,” Liane said, clutching at her bare shoulders, shivering in the chill damp of morning mists.
PerNoWriMo: Heedless, Chapter 3.2
Posted by Krepta on January 7th, 2009 filed in HeedlessComment now »
It wouldn’t be a major exaggeration to say that that phrase would kill the mood for all but the most willing women, or a few with strange personal fantasies. It is a testament to how swept away in the moment Liane was that she first assumed she misheard him. “You want head first?”she said with a wry face.
Then she realized that her playful predator was holding her down with enough force to bruise her arms.
PerNoWriMo: Heedless, Chapter 3.1
Posted by Krepta on January 6th, 2009 filed in HeedlessComment now »
“Liane is beautiful, without being pretty.”
PerNoWriMo: Heedless, Chapter 2.2
Posted by Krepta on January 5th, 2009 filed in HeedlessComment now »
“Scatman Crothers?”
Liane heard the syllables but failed to assemble them into a word. “Huh?” Read the rest of this entry »
PerNoWriMo: Chapter 2.1
Posted by Krepta on January 4th, 2009 filed in HeedlessComment now »
Chapter 2
Somewhere in between the second buttershot and the first sun devil, the bartender had apparently had a visit from a long -dead former business partner and three temporally relevant ghosts, because his attitude toward Liane had completely changed.
“So you’re new in town? Where did you live before?” he asked, a beatific smile on his face as he refilled her glass out of sincere Christian charity. Read the rest of this entry »
PerNoWriMo: Heedless, Chapter 1.2
Posted by Krepta on January 3rd, 2009 filed in HeedlessComment now »
(NOTE: This month, The Hungry Reader will be writing a novel in public. There is a minimum post limit of 1350 words per day. Commentary is appreciated and encouraged, but when the project is complete, all posts will be removed. Enjoy!) Read the rest of this entry »
PerNoWriMo: Heedless, Chapter 1.1
Posted by Krepta on January 2nd, 2009 filed in HeedlessComment now »
(NOTE: This month, The Hungry Reader will be writing a novel in public. There is a minimum post limit of 1350 words per day. Commentary is appreciated and encouraged, but when the project is complete, all posts will be removed. Enjoy!)