Writing Journal

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Today marks the launch of a new feature here at Brian Keene dot com – my Writing Journal. It will most likely only appeal to other writers or to readers who are curious about my progress on upcoming works. But that’s good enough for me.

For many years, I wrote ten or twelve hours a day, six or seven days a week. These days, I’ve got my toddler Monday through Thursday, so my writing time is as such: Thursday night through Sunday night, typing until I pass out from exhaustion. Here’s what I did this past weekend:

1. Completed all three drafts of the 26-page script for The Last Zombie: Before the After #1 and turned it in to Antarctic Press.

2. Completed two chapters of The Lost Level.

3. Completed editing Geoff Cooper’s Answers of Silence, which will be included in the third Maelstrom set.

4. Completed half of “Musings” – a story for Cemetery Dance’s Four Killers.

5. Signed signature sheets for Cemetery Dance’s Four Killers.

6. Conferred with J.F. Gonzalez on re-tooling the plot for our political thriller.

7. Wrote first draft of a brief something for Brian Hodge’s Blog. Decided I hated it. Began re-write. Realized that nothing I write will ever be good enough for Brian Hodge’s Blog. Drank whiskey and played Fallout 3: Broken Steel instead.