Midnight Corey A Knife in Your Eye

Watching My Favorites Again

The opportunity to write this book with Melzer has motivated me to go back and watch some of my favorite horror movies of all time. I find myself getting so busy with keeping with all the new zombie movies coming out, that I rarely take time to go back to the greats -- the reasons I fell in love with horror movies to begin with.

This weekend I watched Basket Case (1982) and Nosferatu (1922). And there's a whole stack sitting here, just waiting for me to watch them again. They're nothing new; I've seen most of them a million times. But they're the greatest horror films ever made, and every time I watch them, I experience the same magic that I did the first time I saw them.

New Project Collaboration with James Melzer

I'm very excited to announce that I'll be collaborating with James Melzer, author of The Zombie Chronicles, on a nonfiction book. For the time being, we're calling it 100 Horror Movies You Have to See, and it's exactly what you would think: a tribute to the 100 horror films that Mr. Melzer and I believe to be ones that you simply cannot go through life without seeing.

Expect our own thoughts about these movies, plus interviews with cast and crew involved in these films.

You know I'm a big fan of the horror genre -- I have been my whole life. James is highly knowledgeable in the realm of film, especially horror, and it's an honor for me to be working with such a talented guy.

Expect updates as the project moves forward!

NaNoWriMo 2009 Winner

For the fourth year in a row, I wrote 50,000 words in the month of November. And an even bigger accomplishment is that I actually completed the story. In the past years, I would hit my word count and stop, not really ending the story. Well, this year I wrote about 4,000 extra words to make sure I brought it all to a close.

Thanks to everyone who read it over at MidnightCorey.com. I've begun revising, and have some additions/rewriting in mind. Some people have suggested trying to get it published, and I very well may try. But before I do that, I'm going to make some major revisions.

NaNoWriMo 2009

Here we are -- I forgot to mention that for National Novel Writing Month this year, I'm blogging my novel. Courageous or stupid? You be the judge.

http://midnightcorey.com

NaNoWriMo 2008 – Winner!

I did it. Somehow. After Day 28, I was right around 36,000 words. I had all but given up, but once Saturday came around, I decided to put 'er in overdrive. I wrote about 5,000 on Saturday, then the remaining 9,000 while I watched football on Sunday.

Speaking of that, how 'bout them Steelers -- they wiped the floor with those retard Patriots. I loathe the Patriots, and love to see them lose.

Anyhow, my novel sucks. I had an outline that I carefully crafted in October, but the story veered way off course about half way through. Then, as I got closer and closer to the 50,000 word goal, I realized I'd have to wrap things up pretty quickly. And it was bad.

But I did it. And maybe I'll pull it back out at some point in 2009 for some HEAVY editing and re-writing.