Flexing my writing muscle

     Sometimes it is quite the workout.  Sometimes I wake up and I just don't feel like it, but day after day I sit down at my computer and a type away.  The words don't always come easy and the writing is not always what I would consider good, but it is there.  I have begun to treat each day like I am competing in NaNoWriMo because that was how I successfully completed my first novel. 

     What do I have to report? Well I am now starting Chapter Seven of my new work.  I am trying to keep it genre neutral for now so suffice it to say that it is a little outside what you might expect from me, but rest assured there is still plenty of interesting goings on in this one.  I am excited to be working on one project and devoting my attention to that though I have been tempted to write some of the other things I have in the works.

     Watch this spot as you never know when you might see an excerpt from my new work and now it is time for a shameless plug.  Feel free to purchase my first book 'The Death of Harold Hartline' through Amazon.com either in book form or in eBook for your Kindle.  Also it should soon be available for Nook as well.  Thanks for reading and supporting me in literary endeavors. 

Go with you gut

     I got some of the best writing advice today.  It isn't new advice and it isn't earth shattering, but for me it was the source that made it so important.

     So there I was in the middle of a five mile walk with my wife (no I'm not bragging.  Okay maybe a little) when I asked her a question about my new book.  I was a little unsure of an aspect of it and how to make it work.  My wife, the always supportive and extremely intelligent woman that she is, said: "I have the same advice for you and your character.  Go with your gut."  She continued on to say that with any big decision you make, speaking to me and my character once again, it's a leap of faith.  Without that leap of faith nothing happens.

     So, Honey, I just wanted to let you know that I am taking that leap of faith and so is my character. I know it's going to work out fine for my character.  It'll take some time before I see how it works out for me, but let me put it this way, every time I have taken my wife's advice in the past it has worked out just fine.  I don't expect it to be any different now.

     Keep watching this space for more updates.

What I'm working on

Just taking a moment to let interested readers know what I have on my plate right now.

Science Fiction novel currently have about 40-50 pages.

Religious supernatural novel currently have 80-100 pages.

Horror novel currently only about 20 pages.

A novel which is hard to put into a genre and currently have about 50 pages written.

Also I have several short stories most in the supernatural category.  This includes the second story in the Fat Freddy Torrance series.

Joslyn and I are also writing a fantasy novel.  Only about 10 pages in.

So as you can see I am hard at work.  I just need to take medication for my writer's a.d.d. and finish one.

Zombie Diagnostics

     So I was thinking...
...this is normally where anyone who actually knows me would find a very convincing reason to leave the room.  Luckily for me, you are a captive audience (or at least I hope so I paid good money for some guy to ensure that was the case).  Well, no matter.  Here it goes.

     So, the one way to kill a zombie according to most mythology is by damaging the brain i.e. a blow to the head.  So if someone dies because of a blow to the head (say gunshot wound, axe blade to the brain, or a tragic accident involving a cartoon character and a falling anvil, safe, or piano) will they, in the event of a zombie apocalypse, become the walking, shuffling, or crawling dead?

     I bet you didn't think of that, did you?

     Let's think about this rationally.  Or as rationally as we can be when discussing a subject such as the living dead.  If they already have damage to the brain they should not be able to rise from the grave.  If they could then every zombie that gets killed would then be able to be re-re-animated.  Is that even a word? So I propose that those who died from a brain injury can not become reanimated regardless of the initial cause of the zombie invasion.

     Now like any good scientist I am going to begin conducting some experiments.  I'll let you know about the results.  Or maybe you'll already know as I am considering you as one of my subjects.  Sleep tight.