| Author | Message | ||
     Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
I need a name for a shreddie in the story I'm working on at the moment... Does anyone want to volunteer their name so they can read their gory death in a zombie apocalypse world? | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
A little bit more detail - the story is based on a nightmare I had while reading Wayne Simmons' Flu - so the central 2 characters are Wayne and Simone. It's set in a very similar world to the Wayne Simmons book but I'm throwing in a few extras that I don't recall ever seeing in a zombie story. The central story is about a mother's love for her baby in a ravaged world while her husband goes looking for food. The shreddie will have an unusual death to say the least... | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.181.14.243 |
I'm up for it, but I reckon you should kill Caroline.  | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
No you'll do Drop me an email on efilsgod-at-hotmail.co.uk and I'll let you know how you're going to die... brief physical description as well if you want it to be more accurate | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
I have a friend who would like to be killed. His name is Adolf Oliver Nipples.* He has a buddy too who wouldn't mind, Otto B. Kilt.* (*http://www.lotsofjokes.com/funny_names_a-j.asp & http://www.lotsofjokes.com/funny_names_k-z.asp, for all your spare-character-naming needs) | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Awww, too late! I'd love you to kill me, Weber - slowly and painfully. Perhaps you could kill Mick this time and me another time? PS: Thanks for thinking of me, Mick!  | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
Tell you what Caroline, you can be a zombified mad cat lady... | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
... I think I already am, Weber!  By the way, did you folks know that there's a Ramsey short story - "Kill me Hideously" I think it's called - where the main character is named after a lady who either won a raffle or a charity auction prize in order to be a character in a story of his? Now that would be the ultimate prize for any fangirl/fanboy - to be a character in one of Ramsey's stories! | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.78.35.175 |
I am happy enough to be a character (a Belgian pirate!) in Rhys Hughes' recent Corto Maltese tribute novella. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
I'm sad (happy) to announce that Ms Caroline Callaghan and Mick Curtis have now passed into the afterlife... Caroline has done it twice. In my story obviously. Anyone know any good markets for an 8k word zombie apocalypse story? | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
(thinks: if I keep quiet, will everyone think Weber isn't talking fiction and start to say what a lovely lady I was on this my obituary thread?) | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.178.81.13 |
:-) I have to say I was most pleased with my death! | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
Can anyone suggest a market for an 8.5k word (rather unpleasant) zombie apocalypse story? | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
First comments about the story... Me rather proud to be smacking readers round the face. Oh wow, what an ending! I loved it! ... the final realisation hits the reader smack around the face when it comes. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
There were a couple of other comments, slightly more critical, but they were mainly nit picks (quite good ones too which have improved the story) and one major error in the narrative that I hadn't spotted. I'll be doing a small rewite next week when I've got a bit of distance from the story and I'll be able to chop bits without fretting so much. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
>>Oh wow, what an ending! I loved it! ... the final realisation hits the reader smack around the face when it comes.<< I think it was me wot said that, wasn't it Weber? I've been nit-picking it too - it's the 'make-believe' editor part of me which has a nasty habit of doing that! | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
Believe me, one of the reasons I've been sending it to peeps is to get opinions and nit picks. I'm very greatful for your comments. I've made half a dozen small changes and it's already reading more nicely than it did. Next week the scissors come out though... | ||
| Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 99.241.220.139 |
Are those scissors meant for the story, or for Caroline? | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
>>Are those scissors meant for the story, or for Caroline?<< Yikes!! Mind you, you should see what he's already done to me (in the story, that is). | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.181.15.224 |
I still have the draft you emailed me, Weber, still unread - sorry it's taking so long but I've been a bit busy, to say the least... | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
I read it last night, mate. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Is it the original version? Have you found a market for it yet? | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
D'you know, I'm now feeling a little embarrassed that you all now know what I look like thanks to this story.  | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Grey skin, covered in cat bites? | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Yup, that's me!  |