im writing this zombie story right now and its 13 pages and really good so far and need a little help?

Question

i know you dont know the story but i need ideas like places and people if your not going to help dont bother writing, im really serious when it comes to zombies and can someone help alittle that would mean alot

Answer 1

I don't know. It's kind of hard to give advice without having read the story. I'd be more than happy to help if you would provide a link to your story. Or, you could even e-mail it to me. I write too, and have gotten a few small things published in magazines. My friends are all writers too, and we've looked over each others stuff. I hope it goes well!!

Merry Christmas!


I found some information:

The term zombie refers to a dead person whose body has been re-animated. Zombie, originates from the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Vodoun (otherwise known as Voo-Doo in America). These folkloric zombies are humans who have had their "Ti Bon Ange" or soul stolen by supernatural means and shamanic medicine, and are forced to work for their "zombie master" as uncomplaining slaves on isolated plantations. Other more macabre versions of zombies have become a staple of modern horror fiction, where they usually engage in human cannibalism.

According to the tenets of Vodoun, a dead person can be revived by a bokor or black magician. Zombies remain under the control of the bokor since they have no will of their own. "Zombi" is also another name of the voodoo snake god Damballah Wedo, of Niger-Congo origin; it is akin to the Kongo word nzambi, which means "god."

Aside from their horrific appearance (open or dried wounds, rotted flesh, missing limbs etc.), a major source of horror is the concept of cannibalism, often associated with zombies in popular culture.

Further reasoning involves reminding the victims of the fate of their bodies after death (Decomposition).

Finally, and perhaps most frightening, there is the concept that zombies used to be regular people. The idea that a close relative or friend could suddenly lose their personality and begin attacking someone they used to love can be crippling.


I don't know if this will be helpful or not.

Answer 2

What you might find useful is the "stock character", like 1. the blond girlfriend 2. the high school jock 3. the grizzled vet 4. the town policeman 5. the sleazy town idiot 6. the stodgy old fool. One problem with most horror plots is the idea that no one can learn from their mistakes or from other sources. Like the "true heart boyfriend" in the one zombie flick that brings his dead girlfriend back to life using a chemical on his dad's military base. This idiot is so blind he cannot see anything except his fantasy that they can somehow live a normal life, and eventually it leads to his own destruction. Not to mention the fact that if such a fubar actually happened both him and his dad would have been arrested and taken for extensive questioning the minute the situation was under control, and there is no way a security risk like this kid would have been allowed anywhere except under guard and at gunpoint. Let your characters have some intelligence, and be able to reason out the best possible course of action. The characters in "Tremors" are just such thinkers, and if they were in any zombie flick they would kick some serious *ss, and live to tell the tale. Let them take maximum advantage of resources and environment, but remember that the main threat of a zombie plague is the concept that, like the Cauldron-Born in Lloyd Alexanders Chronicles of Prydain, zombies don't tire, don't need sleep, can't drown, and are highly resistant to temperature fluctuations in the weather. However, freezing cold will slow them down alot, because they are corpses with no internal body heat to keep them from freezing. In such cold the remaining moisture in their bodies would literally freeze and paralyze their muscular systems. Zombies also have a "shelf life" of about two weeks max before their muscular systems decompose to the point where they would just collapse in a heap. Now let's talk about how a zombie works. Why do they eat flesh (forget the screwy need for brains)? Because their bodies have been invaded by an agent we will call the zombie factor, or z-f for short. Z-f provides oxygen to their brains, nervous, and muscular systems, but not to any other parts of the body. The other parts of the body begin to necrose, or die without oxygen. Z-f also begins to reproduce in the body as time goes by, and needs nourishment itself, and begins to digest the body, causing terrible pain that can only be stopped by ingesting fresh, bloody meat rich in oxygen. Eventually however, the levels of Z-f build up to the point where almost constant feeding is necessary. Without feeding the z-f will begin to digest every part of the body, including the three systems that it oxygenates, causing irrevocable damage to the brain, muscles, annd nervous system. The weaker the zombie becomes the less able it is to feed itself, resulting in accelerated decomposition. Meanwhile, the fragile human psyche is having to cope with the fact that they are dead, their body is decomposing, they are wracked with constant, pain that translates as hunger, that they are eating raw, bloody meat from animals, or worse yet, humans, and that no matter what they do they are going to collapse in a jellified heap in about two weeks and be in agonizing pain until their brain finally dies. Any mind would not hold up long under that stress and would soon go insane, degenerating into a mindless monster.

Answer 3

Some ideas although I am no advice giver nor do I like giving it:

- have some zombies eat a baby; be very vivid in details
- you could have a man and a woman in an intimate situation; the man is about to perform oral and is "down there" and then turns into a zombie and bits off her you-know-what; she then is a crotchless zombie; that would be so awesome; this could all began on an elevator as they were waiting to get to a top floor of some building
- you can have like some psychic freak who when the zombiemania begins is like "I knew it, I knew this would happen"; "I saw it in a vision 'or whatever
- you can have a little orphan or homeless kid who has to fare for themselves once the zombies begin to attack
- other places could be outhouses or those portable bathroom where construction workers go to take their bathroom break; skating rink, or on an airplane

- Sorry if you don't like my suggestions but zombie movies are my absolute favorite horror movies and my favorite band is the Zombies

Answer 4

This might be a little too comical for you, but I have long wished to see a story where there's a zombie invasion, but they move so slowly that people realize you can just ignore then and push them out of the way and they won't do be able to do anything.

Answer 5

Do need a little more info, but if you're 13 pages into it, where are you gonna post it?

is it original or based on a tv show or movie?

You can post your work at fanfiction.net if based on a show. If original, there's a link to another site. People can give you feedback and perhaps suggestion on continuing chapters.

Answer 6

Do you know that there are real zombies in Haiti? Apparently a certain plant will have the effect of putting people into a coma. When they come out of the coma, people think they have become zombies.

Answer 7

Go to our government web site and look at pictures of allthe Senators and other political leaders of this country. There you will find pictures of zombies because they are all 90 years old and brain dead. Look at thier pictures and you will gain valuable descriptive insight into zombies.

Answer 8

the Zombie that threw dead cats at me had a awful odor. The cats only missed me by inches, in fact, a filthy once white felines knotted and kinked tail, tickled the under side of my nose as it whizzed by.............