Thursday of the dead
Back to the mechanics of my novel today and a little rant about plot vs. characters. I never really liked the idea that a book was character driven OR plot driven. It’s a common idea in the writing community but…
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Midweek zombie goodness: Wednesday
So we’ve covered traditional vs. ‘wacky’ zombies, scientific explanations, weapons, the realm of believability, rotten ‘jelly’ like corpses chasing you down the street and even the best gravy to serve brains with…apparently its milk gravy! Now I’d like to move…
Tuesday’s child is full of…BRAIIIINNSS!
Ok, Tuesday. Not bad as days go, at least it’s not Monday right? But in the land of the zombie every day is the same. Get up, clear the bodies off the lawn, smash some skulls in, decapitate of few…
Zombies love Mondays
So zombies…grr…brains…and other assorted tropes. That’s right, I said it! TROPES! And stereotypes and clichés and axioms. I’ve mentioned the unmentionable in the zombie community, whispered the unspoken truth that breaks the code of zombie lovers worldwide (that’s people who…
A whole week dead-icated to zombies!
Ok, so I won a competition recently, and as part of the prize iZombie will be covering my blog for a whole week! Thanks iZombie! So I thought I’d better actually post some interesting stuff. Well some ‘slightly’ interesting stuff…
The beginning of the end
That’s more like it! Somewhere around 4,000 words written tonight…woo! I’m starting to build up to the climax of my novel now and the action is beginning to hot up. I’ve just set my main characters on their path to…
Losing passion for a project
I’m sure we’re all guilty of this, or at least I hope it’s not just me! You start a writing project, it’s all going swimmingly and then a couple of weeks or months down the road you start to get…
Busy, busy, busy but not in a good way
Ok, so I promised more updates. Not only more updates but interesting ones…then I realised how much other stuff I had to do *gulp* Sorry people, I really did intend to post some wonderful awe inspiring pant wettingly amazing posts,…
Holy strawberries, Batman! We’re in a jam!
Fifty followers? Blimey *straightens tie* I better think of something important to say…and on a regular basis. I promised myself once I reached fifty followers I would try and take my blogging a little more seriously. Try to talk about…