A brand new story
was writing itself tonight.
No chance of sleep now.
As I’ve probably mentioned already, I’m a huge fan of the zombie and zombie apocalypse genres, including but not limited to things like Army of Darkness, 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead, World War Z, and the Resident Evil series (Zombieland and a few others are in my LoveFilm queue). So I’ve been wanting to write a short story in the genre for a while, and I’d very much like to write a novel and/or screenplay in it eventually.
Having not done it at all before, on the way home from work this evening I put a bunch of the pieces together, came up with some great ideas and decided to give it a go. Here we are 2,100 words later (and nowhere near finished) and it’s time for me to go to bed. With all this creativity bursting out of my head, the story wants to continue writing itself. I could probably reach 8,000 or more words tonight if I just let myself go.
The problem is that I can’t — I have a day gig that pays the bills. The other problem is that with this creativity unleashed, I am going to have a hell of a time getting to sleep tonight. I mean… it’s midnight and I’m writing a new blog post, the night is cool, the heating is off, and I’m running like a fan heater.
Is there a trick to just switching off?
Braiiinz! *claws air*
p.s. send me your zombie story when it’s done!
I’m looking forward to seeing it myself.
And will do.