Guest Post by Jay Wilburn

Write Everything if You Want to be Long Winded

 by Jay Wilburn

 

I appreciate the opportunity to muck up Besser’s blog. As I write this I am currently involved in the Winter of Zombie blog tour. I’m pushing my short story collection, ZOMBIES BELIEVE IN YOU and a short story I have in ZOMBIES: MORE RECENT DEAD with Prime Books. Links to those books are at the end of this post.

I’m also doing NaNoWriMo trying to produce the first book of what will end up being an ongoing zombie series. I’m knocking out and starting freelance and ghostwriting jobs hoping to catch up on rent. I’m also joining Richard Chizmar over at Cemetery Dance in his project of rereading all of Stephen King’s work. In my version of the #StephenKingRevisited challenge, I am rereading all of Stephen King’s novels in the order that they were published. I’m hoping to learn something about long fiction through this process. I will blog before and after each book with what I pick up from this experience for those who are interested. I will also link to Chizmar’s posts on the official site and Bev Vincent’s brief history posts he is writing for Chizmar as he reads each book. You can get to those from my link in the next paragraph.

Here is the first blog post in my #StephenKingRevisited series – BEFORE CARRIE. From there you can click through the others: http://jaywilburn.com/stephen-king-revisited-before-carrie-stephenkingrevisited/

Here is my opening post for NaNoWriMo on starting my Dead Song series: http://jaywilburn.com/the-one-trick-pony-rides-again-for-nanowrimo/

I don’t know what I am doing. I am struggling to put together the word counts that I used to produce somewhat naturally. Some of that is due to struggling with my health. Some of it is being up in my head instead of just producing on the page. The rest of it is doubts about my ability to keep doing what I am doing.

The title of this post comes from Becca giving me free reign to unload on all of it, so here it is. As I fall short a few days on NaNoWriMo, I’m looking at drafting for a few days without tracking the word count. I will then look at the end of the week and see how “just writing” has worked for me.

I don’t think it is writer’s block. I also hold to the new philosophy that writer’s block is just fear and doubt translated into inaction. My job and identity are as a writer. I decided that before I was making a living at it. Now that I’m seeing a bit of success at that I seem to be trying to balk with doubts of my own ability.

Time to just write.

Here is Zombies Believe In You:

ebook:

http://www.amazon.com/Zombies-Believe-You-Jay-Wilburn-ebook/dp/B00LM9CIVM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1415237789&sr=8-1&keywords=zombies+believe+in+you

paperback:

http://www.amazon.com/Zombies-Believe-In-You-Collection/dp/061595460X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1415237789&sr=8-2&keywords=zombies+believe+in+you

 

Here is Zombies: More Recent Dead:

ebook:

http://www.amazon.com/Zombies-More-Recent-Paula-Guran-ebook/dp/B00MG5IUXG/ref=sr_1_1_twi_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1415237995&sr=1-1&keywords=zombies+more+recent+dead

paperback:

http://www.amazon.com/Zombies-More-Recent-Mike-Carey/dp/1607014335/ref=sr_1_1_twi_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1415237995&sr=1-1&keywords=zombies+more+recent+dead

audio:

http://www.amazon.com/Zombies-More-Recent-Dead/dp/B00N9D40DS/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=1-1&qid=1415237995

 

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