A first draft, edited very slightly as I go along, written for National Novel Writing Month. More of a proof read than an edit, really, so any major plot issues let me know! You can also follow this on YouTube by subscribing to 'MJLongman'.

Please don't be too harsh on me... I wrote this in a week. Well, a week and a half. Yeah, I know, I wrote a lot that month.

Critique welcome, but be gentle. Remember that this is a FIRST draft and so typos will be rife. Please feel free to point out any particularly humourous ones.

Author guidance for This story

FORMATTING ISSUES ARE PROTAGONIZE AND MS WORD HAVING AN ARGUMENT. AGAIN. PLEASE IGNORE INDENTS OR LACK OF.

Edited a bit as I go along, to be read aloud one chapter at a time on YouTube ... yep, it's my second NaNoWriMo novel, for your pleasure.

To follow on YouTube (interspersed with random videos of me), search for MJLongman and press subscribe! I look forward to talking to you :) Any subscribers will be added to the list below

This is mostly a proof-read rather than a full edit so any plot arcs that (a) vanish (b) make no sense or (c) don't match up, please tell me!

Note to those not clued up --
*NaNoWriMo = National Novel Writing Month. 50,000 words in a month. www.nanowrimo.org
*NaNoWriMo is mentioned several times in the novel. I know. I was bored.
*Mr Ian Woon is also mentioned. This is a popular name among WriMos, as it's an anagram of NaNoWriMo.
*Sporks are mentioned. For those who have never frequented the Spork Room on the NaNoWriMo forums ... you have never lived.

For those that told me stories in my childhood
and wrote me books as I grew up;
for those who saw the darkness and still followed
the light in which they believed.

With special thanks to
-> Spook and Elo who read most of what I write, even when it's crap
-> My YouTube subscribers: retrothefox, g2theIrishPianist, Lexietastic, Morghena, bumleebee, Br0nzSilv3rG0ld, crystabell1
-> NaNoWriMo Buddies!

updated Jun 2 '11 by delorfinde