NaNoCrash

I was making good progress on the NaNoNovel and then this happened. He's a stray and there was no mother or siblings in sight. He's now approximately 5 weeks old and is named Perseus. I'm poking at writing some more, but this guy is something of a distraction. Like all good writers' cats, he thinks that laptops (or ipads running CloudOn editors) alternate between being very fascinating and thus requiring inspection or they are a competition for attention and thus require a full assault on my toes.

NaNoWriMo Day 2

Total Wordcount: 6610 out of 52,908

NaNoWriMo Day One: Red Wind

So I'm doing NaNoWriMo again. I've done it twice before, one time completing the novel and one time I was on track until a bout of stomach flu knocked me out and I didn't pick it back up again.

This year, I'm taking another swing at it with a science fiction detective story set on a post-singularity Mars. (I know, I know, the market is just flooded with those.)  Expect daily updates and check the progress bar on the right.

I will also confess that I started this story already, which is technically against the rules. However, I've just added my current word count to the goal, so I'll still be shooting for the requisite 50,000 words in 31 days.

Starting Wordcount: 2908
Daily Goal: 4575
Daily Wordcount to Complete On Schedule 1666

Demon: Interface

So my first professional short story “The Principal” appears in the collection “Demon: Interface”, which is set in the world of White Wolf/Onyx Path’s Role-Playing Game “Demon: The Descent.”  I hope you all go out and buy a copy here. But for folks who aren’t familiar with The World of Darkness games, I thought I’d give a little context. 

First off, the titular demons mentioned in the book aren’t what you'd call "traditional" demons.  They’re not connected to any real-world religious beliefs.  In the World of Darkness, there’s a powerful extra-dimensional entity called “the God-Machine.”  The God-Machine is what you’d get if you crossed Cthulhu with Skynet.  Like the Great Old Ones, humans can’t even understand what it wants, but whatever that may be; it’s not going to end well for humanity.

The God-Machine can’t directly affect the world, but it can create “angels” that can enter the world and interact with people. These “angels” are sort of like the Agents in the Matrix, creatures edited into reality that look human, but aren’t. Sometimes, these angels develop free will and decide that they don’t want to serve the God-Machine anymore.  These renegade angels are called (you guessed it) demons.  

Making Good Words

Howdy Internet,

I'm Rick Jones, a freelance writer. So far, I've written for role-playing game companies, but I'm also trying to break into the world of fiction. My first fiction sale, a short story for the Demon: The Fallen short story collection, will be out soon.

I've got another blog, Rick's Game Room, which is kind of an online scratch pad for various just-for-fun RPG writing stuff. Since it's made up of partially finished projects that I work on when I had free time, I wanted to keep my PROFESSIONAL WRITER STUFF separate from my writeups of the Futurama crew in the Eclipse Phase RPG Universe.

There's a sidebar on the main page that I'm using to track my various freelance assignments. I'm going to leave completed projects on there until they're available, and then put a link to it on the Buy My Stuff Page. 

Occasionally, I may ramble about writing, but really, just about every good bit of writing advice can be found (and probably stated better) at Mur Lafferty's I Should Be Writing podcast.