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Note on commercial and non-commercial use. books
They are listed with recent at the top, oldest at the bottom.
Size:
In the list below I show the size of each story as 3 numbers:
kBytes : words : pagesA byte is a character or punctuation mark or space. A kbyte is about a thousand bytes. A Harry Potter sized book is about 500,000 bytes (500kb), not counting any pictures.
Words are a measure the industry uses. It will be meaningless to most people. A novel is generally considered to be more than 50,000 words.
Page count will be easiest for most people to understand, but please note that this is only an estimate, based on my own print settings. They will differ from yours, and will be more for paperback format, and even more for ereader.
Key: Some guide to the content is given with symbols.
Hover your mouse over a symbol to get a quick reminder of what the symbol represents (works in most modern web browsers).
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entry for NaNoWriMo ![]()
currently writing this one
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I'm annoyed at something
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action story
Breathe - a novel (504kB : 88,301 words : 200 pages) [comment]
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Shirlocke - a short novel (152kB : 27514 words : 48 pages) [comment]
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Companions - a short novel (225 kB : 38,867 words : 74 pages) [comment]
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flying - a novel (384 kB : 60,586 words : 113 pages) [comment]
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Prescription - my 2010 NaNoWriMo novel (285kB : 50,400 words : 85 pages) [comment]
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Selena City - my 2007 NaNoWriMo novel (248kB : 43,725 words : 75 pages) [comment]
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Adele works in security and is in love with Brenda. Unfortunately, circumstances have separated them. A leading AI expert has been abducted and Adele and her fellow security staff must track him down before something terrible happens to the City. This has accidentally brought Adele and Brenda back together again. Can their love resume? Should it? Things become further complicated when a friend of a friend arrives in the city as a refugee.
A romance/mystery set in the near future at a city under the surface of the Moon in an almost ideal society where sexuality is not an issue.
My 2007 NaNoWriMo novel. Please let me know what you think of it via the [comment] link. During November I was able to stop real life interfering with writing, but when the month ended I was suddenly buried under all the things I'd put off.
Finally finished almost a year later... well, except for the inevitable rewrites yet to come.
Insurance (291kB : 52,000 words : 95 pages) [comment]
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The future is high-tech and low-energy, where androids (intelligent, human-like robots) are willing slaves, and most people, upon dying, are reborn into virtual reality inside computers as "veeps". Rachel is in love with her android Sally, even though it is socially frowned upon for a human to love an android. They become entangled in schemes for veeps and androids to gain human status.In 2005 I completed my first NaNoWriMo. Yay! In some ways I'm really happy with this story even though it is not as well written as I'd have liked. It's about ideas and love and the near future. This story has as many cool concepts stuffed into it as I could at the time. It is mostly a happy and optimistic piece -- deliberately so. I need to rewrite some clumsy parts though. If you read it please bear in mind it was my first attempt at long form story writing, so it reads more like a collection of short stories. I'll rewrite it eventually.