This week’s WILAWriTWe is brought to you by my bookshelf that broke during the move. Some poor soul had leaned it up against the side of the truck, that it might be loaded thereonto — when lo! behold! a gust of wind blew the bookshelf over, smashing it into smithereens upon the pavement! Okay, okay, [...]
I love my job. Have I mentioned that? Well, let me mention it here and now: I love my job. I get to write, I get to read what my Writers Tribe writes, and I get to read all sorts of books in all sorts of genres. It’s exactly the job for me, and I [...]
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Zombie stories aren’t about scary grossness — they’re about characters. The survivors and how they overcome or succumb to hardship: that is what zombie stories are about. And that, gentle readers, is what each of our stories should be about, no matter what our chosen genre…
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Also tagged Alan Dean Foster, Ancient Egyptian poetry, Anne McCaffrey, Anne Rice, Ben Hur, Caroline B. Cooney, Character, Character Development, Christopher Pike, Cynthia Voigt, Genre fiction, John Saul, Joy Wilt Berry, Literary fiction, Lois Lowry, Maz Brooks, Michael Crichton, Pern, Pip and Flinx, Point Horror, R. L. Stine, Richie Tankersley Cusick, Robin Cook, Shakespeare, Stephen King, Sunfire Romance, WILAWriTWe, World War Z, Zombies
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That title might be slightly misleading. Mr. Koontz’s and Mr. Anderson’s writing is, indeed, the foundation upon which this particular article rests. But there are several additional authors whose works would make great building blocks for the ideas I’ll endeavor to convey to you today. I’ll mention some of them later. But Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein [...]
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Also tagged Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim, Android Karenina, Copyright, Dawn of the Dreadfuls, Fahrenheit 451, Frankens, John Milton, Julie Velez, Kevin J. Anderson, Magic, Mary Shelley, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Public Domain, Ray Bradbury, Reading, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, Seth Grahame-Smith, Sistine Chapel, WILAWriTWe
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