Nature abhors repetition, which is why, dear readers, rather than simply feeding you page after page of the same boring writing project, I'm going to feed you snippets from other...boring...writing projects. Hooray!
The next excerpt is from "Razor: Angel", my Nanowrimo project from last year. (This year's National Novel Writing Month is rapidly approaching, so I thought it would be a great idea to continue the "Razor" series, which I'm already 2/3 of the way done with.) "Razor: Angel" and the sequel, "Razor: Hell" were my first attempts I'd made at a long time at straight horror, and the results have been....well, better than I'd expected. (Though I do find it amusing that the second book, "Razor: Hell" drifts off much closer to dark fantasy territory than it does to the fairly down-to-earth horror roots of its predecessor. Oh, well.) With any luck, the end of the trilogy, "Razor: Serpent", will be the project I'll start and complete this coming November.
The first book in the series, "Razor: Angel" is the story of a sleepy college town in northwest Washington, where a number of seemingly unrelated individuals -- an age-old vampire who may possess more power than even she knows; a pair of modern monster slayers; a reclusive sheriff, still grieving the recent loss of his wife and son; and the dark spirit of a deranged madman -- are about to collide in a deadly battle of truly Biblical proportions.
The ideas behind the "Razor" series come from back when I was in college and I'd gotten it in my head to write a screenplay for a horror film. While that screenplay (and later stage script) never got past the first 20-30 pages, I was happy to pick up the idea again for the Nanowrimo project.
I've just finished with the hard copy revision of "Razor: Angel" (that's where I go through the printed pages and scribble notes and revisions like a madman), and I'm starting in on the hard copy revision of "Razor: Hell" while I get the revisions for the first book typed in. Since that's my project of the moment, I thought I'd share the Prologue; I'll possibly put up more snippets in the future.
(The Prologue, oddly enough, was not originally written for the novel, but was part of a short story compilation I wrote back in college. The character of the Alchemist wound up becoming a major character of the novels, however, so I revised and redid this short piece and turned it into the Prologue for the book.)
As a warning, all of the "Razor" series contains sequences of graphic violence, sex, and extreme language. It's unquestionably rated "R", so don't say I didn't warn you. :)
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