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Did I Write This Week?

I sure did! If you zoom in on that picture you can in fact see exactly what I wrote! The 18th part of my Zombie story. In theory, it was supposed to end at Part 19, but based on a few last minute revelations and the natural length Part 18 (which wrapped up somewhere around 1200 words) I’ve discovered that I’ll probably end up with 20 parts (or chapters or whatever). Which is nice. 20 parts seems like a much nicer number to end on. If all goes well I’ll have this whole thing wrapped up in the next week or two and will start releasing one or two parts a week while I figure out how to convert the whole thing into an e-book to give away to you for free! Won’t that be exciting! Everyone likes free things. Probably.

What’s Up With Writing This Week?

Finding the right music to write is a huge pain in the ass.

Sometimes I’ll take 10-15 minutes of just clicking through playlists on Google Play Music before I can actually settle down to write anything. It’s strange how much of an impact on my creativity the right song choices can have.

The first thing I try to do is to think about the tone of what I’m about to write. Now that I’ve worked out my story progression and I have a rough idea of what is going to happen in the part that I’m writing, I generally know the gist of what I’m going to be shooting for. For St-Brigid I tend towards a lot of 90’s Grunge Rock, but that’s not always the rule.

Usually it goes something like this: mess around with the albums I’ve been listening to lately to see if there’s anything that fits the vibe that I think I’m going for, listen to it for about a minute and get frustrated that it’s not clicking. Repeat until I lock into something I like.

Anyhow, I have no idea if everyone listens to music if they write, but I find that it can really motivate you when you get the right matchup of music and subject matter. When I click into that magic zone I have so much more output.

Keith does all sorts of things here on 9to5.cc, he works with the other founders on 9to5 (illustrated), co-hosts our two podcasts: The 9to5 Entertainment System and Go Plug Yourself and blogs here as The Perspicacious Geek.

I took this picture this morning! It’s the hospital!

Did I Write This Week?

Hey! This is pretty exciting really. Not only did I write this week but I also managed to get a bunch of backlog taken care of with the website. I cleaned up gigs and gigs of raw audio files from the podcast from months of accumulation and I also edited together our next very special episode of the 9to5 Movie Club.

Not only that, I’m even writing THIS VERY ARTICLE in advance. Say whaaaaaatttt? Man I really called it last week when I said I had the itch to hammer some stuff out this week.

It was a pretty great weekend.

What Did I Write?

I completed the 17th part/chapter of the gonzo zombie saga, that means only 2 parts left and as I chug forwards in the story the actual finale is becoming clearer and clearer to me. That means that if I can just find a few more hours to sit down and write I will actually finish a thing!

Something that I’ve come across as I try to wrap this whole thing up that’s kind of interesting is a new found respect for the old serial pulp authors of old. Does anybody still write ongoing serial-style fiction anymore? Is that still a thing? Does Doc Savage go on any more adventures? I guess the closest thing that happens in print nowadays are comic books.

Actually, that’s a good point of comparison. I now understand how story lines and plot holes creep up so frequently in comic books. I’m assuming that nowadays most writers have their overall story arcs all planned out before they start a run of any given title. It just makes sense. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…