Shiny new blog...I have a sneaking feeling I've done this before

And so I try this whole Blogger thing again. Hopefully this will be a chronicle of my efforts at writing, yes, The Great American Novel. Well no, not really. More like The Great American Cheesefest Novel. Because cheese is what I do. And it's not actually my first novel. But other than that, you know, yeah.

History:

Novel #1: NaNoWriMo 2003. "By The Book." An utterly horrible attempt at "write what you know" mystery/suspense, where the plot unraveled somewhere around word 50,000 (unsurprising, for those of you familiar with NaNo). This shit ain't never appearing where anyone else can see it.

Novel #2: NaNoWriMo 2006, sort of, but actually based on this fanfic I wrote a few years ago, and begun well before last November. "Spilled Blood." Another crime novel, although slightly less painful than the last. Available here in a very preliminary version (hey, I have to hold something back in case the publishers come a-knockin').

Novel #3: Currently being struggled with. After trying and discarding a number of possible plots, I've finally begun work on one. No idea what the title will be, but I have the plot outlined in my mind. Yet another crime novel, although this one is an attempt to move away from my "two cops prodecural" fanfic roots. Only one cop this time. Progress! Excerpts will be posted here more or less stream-of-consciousness (otherwise known as "without editing") as I write.