Writing Discussion

[Respubliko de Libereco]

This zombie attack thing has reminded me that I kinda wish there were more stories about worlds where zombies exist, and are a concern, but aren't necessarily on apocalyptic levels (though some fear-mongering and/or paranoid people choose to view them as a major threat). Something sort of like the current Ebola situation, but with zombies.

[Zeinbrad]

This zombie attack thing has reminded me that I kinda wish there were more stories about worlds where zombies exist, and are a concern, but aren't necessarily on apocalyptic levels (though some fear-mongering and/or paranoid people choose to view them as a major threat). Something sort of like the current Ebola situation, but with zombies.

Give me a few days.

[Bezombia]

This zombie attack thing has reminded me that I kinda wish there were more stories about worlds where zombies exist, and are a concern, but aren't necessarily on apocalyptic levels (though some fear-mongering and/or paranoid people choose to view them as a major threat). Something sort of like the current Ebola situation, but with zombies.

Up until "FIVE", that was the case in Call of Duty: Zombies. Zombies were a very localized threat in a handful of German towns in the Brandenburg region, and were scary enough for the Pentagon to have emergency procedures in case it ever got out of hand but outside of that nobody really cared.

[Respubliko de Libereco]

This zombie attack thing has reminded me that I kinda wish there were more stories about worlds where zombies exist, and are a concern, but aren't necessarily on apocalyptic levels (though some fear-mongering and/or paranoid people choose to view them as a major threat). Something sort of like the current Ebola situation, but with zombies.

Up until "FIVE", that was the case in Call of Duty: Zombies. Zombies were a very localized threat in a handful of German towns in the Brandenburg region, and were scary enough for the Pentagon to have emergency procedures in case it ever got out of hand but outside of that nobody really cared.

Interesting. How did people in other areas of Germany feel about them?

[Zeinbrad]

This zombie attack thing has reminded me that I kinda wish there were more stories about worlds where zombies exist, and are a concern, but aren't necessarily on apocalyptic levels (though some fear-mongering and/or paranoid people choose to view them as a major threat). Something sort of like the current Ebola situation, but with zombies.

Up until "FIVE", that was the case in Call of Duty: Zombies. Zombies were a very localized threat in a handful of German towns in the Brandenburg region, and were scary enough for the Pentagon to have emergency procedures in case it ever got out of hand but outside of that nobody really cared.

And Fidel Castro was there.

[Bezombia]

Up until "FIVE", that was the case in Call of Duty: Zombies. Zombies were a very localized threat in a handful of German towns in the Brandenburg region, and were scary enough for the Pentagon to have emergency procedures in case it ever got out of hand but outside of that nobody really cared.

Interesting. How did people in other areas of Germany feel about them?

They didn't know about them. The zombie "breakout" initially took place during Nazi Germany in a secret research facility. When they broke out, they attacked a couple nearby facilities but they were all already abandoned. The only humans that had contact with the zombies were a half dozen marines who got stranded there for plot purposes.
Then they popped up in Japan...after the bombs dropped, so nobody was there to see them.

Then they all time traveled to the 1970s in an abandoned Berlin movie theater, again with no real public appearances.


They didn't actually get into the public eye until the Soviets unleashed millions of them upon the Pentagon, which led to mass outbreaks around the world (and eventually on the moon), which in turn led to a global apocalypse in the mid 1990s.

Up until "FIVE", that was the case in Call of Duty: Zombies. Zombies were a very localized threat in a handful of German towns in the Brandenburg region, and were scary enough for the Pentagon to have emergency procedures in case it ever got out of hand but outside of that nobody really cared.

And Fidel Castro was there.

He had a legitimate reason for being there.

Richard Nixon didn't, though, and why the hell he was there at the time is one of life's greatest mysteries.

[Respubliko de Libereco]

Interesting. How did people in other areas of Germany feel about them?

They didn't know about them. The zombie "breakout" initially took place during Nazi Germany in a secret research facility. When they broke out, they attacked a couple nearby facilities but they were all already abandoned. The only humans that had contact with the zombies were a half dozen marines who got stranded there for plot purposes.
Then they popped up in Japan...after the bombs dropped, so nobody was there to see them.

Then they all time traveled to the 1970s in an abandoned Berlin movie theater, again with no real public appearances.


They didn't actually get into the public eye until the Soviets unleashed millions of them upon the Pentagon, which led to mass outbreaks around the world (and eventually on the moon), which in turn led to a global apocalypse in the mid 1990s.

So, not much like the current Ebola situation at all, then.

I was imagining an outbreak big enough to cause some panic in developed nations, but controllable enough that we're not dealing with an overdone "every man for himself" or "society quickly collapsing into chaos" scenario.

Such a setting would still be conducive to zombie survival stories, but potentially with a bit more purpose to them.

[Bezombia]

They didn't know about them. The zombie "breakout" initially took place during Nazi Germany in a secret research facility. When they broke out, they attacked a couple nearby facilities but they were all already abandoned. The only humans that had contact with the zombies were a half dozen marines who got stranded there for plot purposes.
Then they popped up in Japan...after the bombs dropped, so nobody was there to see them.

Then they all time traveled to the 1970s in an abandoned Berlin movie theater, again with no real public appearances.


They didn't actually get into the public eye until the Soviets unleashed millions of them upon the Pentagon, which led to mass outbreaks around the world (and eventually on the moon), which in turn led to a global apocalypse in the mid 1990s.

So, not much like the current Ebola situation at all, then.

I was imagining an outbreak big enough to cause some panic in developed nations, but controllable enough that we're not dealing with an overdone "every man for himself" or "society quickly collapsing into chaos" scenario.

Such a setting would still be conducive to zombie survival stories, but potentially with a bit more purpose to them.

That would be interesting. As far as I know nothing like that has been done before.

[Zeinbrad]

So, not much like the current Ebola situation at all, then.

I was imagining an outbreak big enough to cause some panic in developed nations, but controllable enough that we're not dealing with an overdone "every man for himself" or "society quickly collapsing into chaos" scenario.

Such a setting would still be conducive to zombie survival stories, but potentially with a bit more purpose to them.

That would be interesting. As far as I know nothing like that has been done before.

Give me a few days or so.

More if I have enough money for the new Star Wars.

Even more if the new Star Wars sucks more than I expect it too.

[Celritannia]

This zombie attack thing has reminded me that I kinda wish there were more stories about worlds where zombies exist, and are a concern, but aren't necessarily on apocalyptic levels (though some fear-mongering and/or paranoid people choose to view them as a major threat). Something sort of like the current Ebola situation, but with zombies.

I have something like that in my book.

[Nordengrund]

Well, NaNo officially begins in two days and I still have no idea how to begin my story.

I just started an outline but it is not finished.

[Zeinbrad]

Well, NaNo officially begins in two days and I still have no idea how to begin my story.

I just started an outline but it is not finished.

Make up shit on the fly.

I'm pretty sure that has a term for it.

[Nordengrund]

Well, NaNo officially begins in two days and I still have no idea how to begin my story.

I just started an outline but it is not finished.

Make up shit on the fly.

I'm pretty sure that has a term for it.

I know what I want to do with the beginning, I just can't figure out how to capture the reader.

[The New World Oceania]

Well, NaNo officially begins in two days and I still have no idea how to begin my story.

I just started an outline but it is not finished.

Make up shit on the fly.

I'm pretty sure that has a term for it.

I run a magazine all about that.

[Vozt Yurkova]

So, not much like the current Ebola situation at all, then.

I was imagining an outbreak big enough to cause some panic in developed nations, but controllable enough that we're not dealing with an overdone "every man for himself" or "society quickly collapsing into chaos" scenario.

Such a setting would still be conducive to zombie survival stories, but potentially with a bit more purpose to them.

Did you get chance to watch the British TV series In The Flesh? The zombie outbreak in that universe was still a serious one, but society managed to emerge from it largely unscathed save for a host of new ethical questions regarding the 'partially deceased' and their place in the community.

[Bezombia]

So, not much like the current Ebola situation at all, then.

I was imagining an outbreak big enough to cause some panic in developed nations, but controllable enough that we're not dealing with an overdone "every man for himself" or "society quickly collapsing into chaos" scenario.

Such a setting would still be conducive to zombie survival stories, but potentially with a bit more purpose to them.

Did you get chance to watch the British TV series In The Flesh? The zombie outbreak in that universe was still a serious one, but society managed to emerge from it largely unscathed save for a host of new ethical questions regarding the 'partially deceased' and their place in the community.

Is it related to the two Pink Floyd songs?

[Celritannia]

So I decided to take my word count up to 100,000 words.

[Zeinbrad]

So I decided to take my word count up to 100,000 words.

Impressive.

Anyways, while I wait for the game company to get back to (which is my main task at hand right now) me I've been building up the politics and such of the Gaian-Ragon war.

I decided to include a little political conflict in the Ragon government, with Imperialist (Supporters of the current government) fighting another political movement.

I don't want to have the other movement be a democracy based one, but I can't decide on what the other movement is, any ideas?

[Tryienne]

Few questions regarding writing.

I've been struck with a writersblock for over 2.5 years (I'm not sure, but I think it's this long) and I would like to go writing again. Any tips to combat this and make me go writing again?

[Celritannia]

Few questions regarding writing.

I've been struck with a writersblock for over 2.5 years (I'm not sure, but I think it's this long) and I would like to go writing again. Any tips to combat this and make me go writing again?

Well, I had this not too recently, the advice I got was move on to other topics. I broke from my book, wrote some other pieces, began working on more in depth RPs, and by the time I got back to my original work, I was able to write, in fact ,edit it with more detail, which is why I have increased the word count, that and Sci-Fi books are usually between 95,000 and 125,000.

[Vozt Yurkova]

Few questions regarding writing.

I've been struck with a writersblock for over 2.5 years (I'm not sure, but I think it's this long) and I would like to go writing again. Any tips to combat this and make me go writing again?

Stop making excuses and write. Writers' Block is a fictional condition that we claim to have when we can't be bothered to deal with subpar first drafts. Just write something - anything - and tweak it later. It's not as hard to type words into a processor as you keep telling yourself it is.

[The New World Oceania]

Few questions regarding writing.

I've been struck with a writersblock for over 2.5 years (I'm not sure, but I think it's this long) and I would like to go writing again. Any tips to combat this and make me go writing again?

Stop making excuses and write. Writers' Block is a fictional condition that we claim to have when we can't be bothered to deal with subpar first drafts. Just write something - anything - and tweak it later. It's not as hard to type words into a processor as you keep telling yourself it is.

Or a typewriter. Hell, we used to have someone who refused to use anything but a quill and ink.

[Conserative Morality]

Shit, shit, shit, NaNoWriMo...

[-Ebola-]

Shit, shit, shit, NaNoWriMo...

I know, right? How did it get to be November already?

[Laerod]

Few questions regarding writing.

I've been struck with a writersblock for over 2.5 years (I'm not sure, but I think it's this long) and I would like to go writing again. Any tips to combat this and make me go writing again?

Stop making excuses and write. Writers' Block is a fictional condition that we claim to have when we can't be bothered to deal with subpar first drafts. Just write something - anything - and tweak it later. It's not as hard to type words into a processor as you keep telling yourself it is.

Telling yourself that might work for you, but it's not a solution for anyone's writers block.