What Is Going On?

This is a blog about a fictional character trying to survive a zombie apocalypse. Jimmy Varns is a young man living in Atlanta. He cusses a lot. Society may have disintegrated into brain eating monsters, but Blogger is still running and Jimmy is able to update. Through his blog, we will experience his horrors, his triumphs and possible death.

Starting January 2nd, the blog should post daily unless something prevents Jimmy from blogging. Like a real blogger, Jimmy may tell us far more than we ever wanted to know while skipping the things that we are most curious about. Like many bloggers, Jimmy feels an urge to tell someone about his struggles.

Comments will be enabled but you must understand that Jimmy will never read your comments. The comments are for out-of-character discussion between the readers and me, the writer. I did this because I am quite sure the readers are smarter than Jimmy and your solutions/advice/help could make his life much better and therefore less interesting to the reader. Jimmy will complain about his lack of comments because to Jimmy the world is frighteningly quiet.

This is my first non-erotic story. Although sex will not be the main focus, sex will be an issue that Jimmy will encounter. Primarily I am shooting for an R-rated story with violence, language and sexual situations.

The story has already been written. There is an end already set. There is no danger of reading it and then I loose interest in updating it. I don't want to say how long it is but it certainly does end.

Inspirations for this story came from many sources. A primary source of inspiration was a serialized story called 'Footnotes to a Species called Humanity' written by Derek Pegritz. Real life interrferred with Derek finishing the story but even unfinished, it is a powerful piece of horror to me. He tells the story of a man writing a diary while hiding in a mountain from dread monsters destroying the world. I can't say enough about how inspiring that story is.

My second source were the blogs being written by survivors of Hurricane Katrina in New York. It was such a terrible tragedy, made all the more human by brave people describing their accounts of day to day survival.

I devoured a lot of zombie fiction and tried not to retread old familiar ground. The comic book series, 'Walking Dead' was a big source of inspiration as I made a list of things I wanted to address and other things I wanted to tweak.

Max Brooks' Zombie Survivor Guide was a big help as well. The popular concept of zombies being an unbeatable, hearing sensitive horde that can peck away at a fort for weeks really struck me as boring and uninteresting. It was Brook's book that inspired me to come up with a different kind of zombie.