Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

The Book of Angels, Chapter 3, Part 1

Hey, remember about a year and a half ago, when I decided to try and write a serial novel for a lark? And then Crazy Shit happened, and I pretty much abandoned it because I was insanely busy and distracted? Well, last night, I was feeling restless, so I pulled up the file on my computer, and as I re-read what I’d written in the past, realized I knew exactly what needed to happen next. And I started writing again.

No promises as to when the next installment is going to be, but hope you enjoy this one.

And to refresh your memory of the story so far, take a look at chapter one here, then chapter two, part one here, and lookit: chapter two, part two, woo.

The usual disclaimers about the lack of editing and research applies.

These here words copyright Candy Tan. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

Also, a word of warning: This particular bit is gruesome. Those who are squeamish or weak of stomach: I really recommend that you skip it.

The Book of Angels, Chapter 2, Part 2

OK, for those of you who were curious about what I was doing with the SASS (Stupid-Ass Serial Story), here’s the next installment. It’s not as polished as I’d like it to be, and parts of it are infodumpy, but man, I’m sick to death of looking at it and I know that if I don’t post it now, I’ll spend weeks tweaking a word here and a word there instead of moving on with the story.

So be warned. It’s pretty rough reading. I’ll probably head back and re-write parts of it in the future, and I’ll let you know if I change anything substantial instead of just nitpicky wordchoice crap.

The usual disclaimery stuff:

1. These here words copyright 2005 by Candy Tan. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

2. No research was done for the writing of this chapter. I’m lazy, yo.

3. Story not guaranteed to be readable. No professional editor has looked at it. For this particular section, not even friends looked at it.

4. Git your chapter one here, and chapter two, part one here.

The Book of Angels, Chapter 2, Part 1

Behold! *thunderclap* Chapter 2, Part 1 of what I’ve come to refer to as SASS (Stupid-Ass Serial Story). The usual disclaimers apply:

1. These here words copyright 2005 by Candy Tan. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

2. Almost no research was done for the writing of this story. To keep my momentum, my rule has been: if I can’t look it up in Google or Wikipedia in 2 minutes, I’m just going to make shit up.

3. Story not guaranteed to be good, readable, or even coherent. No professional editor has looked at it. Only a small circle of

awesome friends get to look at the draft before I post it. But hey! It’s FREE!

4. Git your chapter one right here.

5. And now (I mean, fucking FINALLY) here’s the story!

The Book of Angels, Chapter 1

No personal ad today because durrrrr, Candy was a retard and forgot to upload new Smart Bitch aristocratic titles. So instead, we have chapter 1! Of my post-as-I-type-it-out serial novel!

Boring caveat-ish stuff:

1. These here words copyright 2005 by Candy Tan.

I’ll probably go for some kind of creative commons thing later once I’ve done more reading on it, but for right now, let’s just go with the full copyright, hmmm? Feel free to excerpt, since fair use covers that, but as a courtesy, please link back to the story, or at least the site.

OK, did some reading on Creative Commons while Autodesk Inventor 10 crashed and burned around me. So! This seems to be the license that best fits what I want for this story: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Wow. I feel all warm and fuzzy and copyleft and shit.

2. Really, really minimal research has been done on this story. How minimal? Let’s say I looked up “Egypt” in Wikipedia, confirmed that its official language is Arabic, and that’s been about it. Please don’t come crying to me about how inaccurate my version… read more »