Since I don’t actually have better judgment to judge against, I put up a sample chapter. Yes, the actual first-draft prologue of Five Rings is online and available to you right now, ready for perus-ation and scrutinization.

What a great way to kick-off the Novel-Push Initiative, right? Get some of my work out there for curious eyes to see…

I chose to put up the prologue because—as is the very nature of prologues—it’s spoiler-free.

Sure, by sharing my writing, you guys’ll likely find out that I’m in way over my head and you’re all wasting your time here and I’m a total hack. But I figure you’d have found out eventually anyway….

All the same I’d be honored if you gave it a read. I’d be even more honored if you hooked me up with some (albeit legally-binding) feedback. Comments right here on this post would be fine.

But you could also email me (esp. if you plan to send a poop-storm my way).

I recoded the contact link in PHP today so emailing me works quite nicely now… complete with a java-based redirect timer countdown thingy (<-this is a fun link to click on). And got the forums working. It’s really really rudimentary right now, so don’t bother visiting it, yet… Cuz it sucks right now. I’m serious. I haven’t done a damn thing with it aside from getting it to work.

Ah, and RG Sanders will be joining the fray for NPI next month, which starts The Day After Tomorrow *echoes*.

Excited? I sure am. ^__^

Anyway, hope you enjoy the story.