This site will be on hiatus for the next seven (or so) days. While the rest of my family and friends sit down for Thanksgiving dinner, I will be deep in the wilderness, sleeping in a tent and eating beans cooked over a campfire. I will be accompanied only by my faithful dog, my laptop, several notebooks and pens, a Taurus .357, a box of hollow points, and copious amounts of caffeine and alcohol.
You will not be able to reach me.
I’m behind on work and need to get caught up and this is the only way to do it. I leave tomorrow night, immediately after teaching my last class for the semester. I’m serious about the communication blackout. Quite literally, unless you’re a member of my immediate family (meaning you are my wife or one of my two sons) I won’t be returning your calls or emails. I’ll be so deep in the wilderness that the world could end and I wouldn’t know about it.
When I return, it will be with a completed novel, half of another new novel, a completed novella, the script for issue #2 of The Last Zombie, several new short stories, and an essay on Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior — unless I drown in the river, fall off a mountaintop, get mauled by bears, end up torn asunder by a pack of coyotes, am murdered by a passing serial killer, or become the plaything of an inbred backwoods mutant.
So there’s that. See you on the other side…
Good for you BK. And Good Luck and God Speed as well.
Hopefully you find a good work atmoshphere there Brian. Have a safe trip and a happy thanksgiving.
Good luck, I admire your work ethic sir…
Good luck, dude. See you when you get back!
“I’ll be so deep in the wilderness that the world could end and I wouldn’t know about it.”
Suddenly I think Mr. Keene knows something the rest of us don’t…
Good luck, keep busy, safe, dry and warm!
Stay safe.
be safe and lets hope a wild turkey comes to the tent
Stay safe, dry, warm, alert and somewhat sober.
Later.
don’t touch any white fuzz up in them thar hills…..
Yeah, yeah, a guy alone in the woods for days on end … we all know how this story ends.
that’s cool! I think that atmosphere will provide you with a good novel.
So that’s how the pros knock it out. Be safe. Don’t get distracted. I would in the woods.
Good luck with the writing and surviving in the wilderness. You best bring some lime, I hear possessed coyotes are a big problem this time of year…
Damn I wish I could do this. Really hope you have an enjoyable and productive week mate, and try not to shoot too many bears
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And on the 7th day…it is all very biblical.
Stay safe, Brian!
Have a safe and productive trip!
Well I hope none of those things happen to you Brian! (or if they do I hope you survive them and write a story about them!) Have a great holiday.
Hope you enjoy quiet time Brian.
Good Luck Brian!
Cool man, I will give you a call Thursday.
Just Kidding
That sounds like an insane amount of writing! I wish you the best of luck getting it all done. I assume you have a way of charging your laptop, though if it were me out there I’d be on my Smith Corona.
Brian!
You keep writin and we’ll keep on a readin.
Take care,
Troy
Don’t forget to bring us back souvenirs!
Good luck, man. Stay safe.
November 29th, 2009. Sanford, Conn.
It took three days and over six hundred volunteers, but the last victims of Brian Keene, the so-called “Agonicity Addict”, were located buried in a hollow in a six mile stretch of pine. Keene, a horror author, issued a statement from the county jail today proclaiming that he regrets nothing, and required the agony of his eight victims to power his laptop, which he was using to write a funny book script for which he would be paid $200 and three tubs of KFC Original Style Chicken.
Have fun in all them darkest wooded thickets!
can i come?
oh please-oh please- oh please
i wont be a pest
Damn! I see at least six or seven new book ideas in your future.
Good luck Man!
Brian thats so hardcore…..just be safe man
Happy Thanksgiving Keene Fam.
Have a safe, fantastic time! Be on the look out for that crazed walmart raccoon. He’s looking to finish that fight!
Good luck—I actually do this every night MENTALLY!
Good luck, be safe and don’t touch anything white and “soft” out there!