Zombie Question: Killing a Zombie, Easy or Heartbreaking?

Zombies are everywhere these days. Quite right too as they're exciting, scary and a fantastic reason to grab your weapon of choice and go nuts with as much violence, bloodshed and all the last stands you can muster. I've been a fan of the undead for a long time. I love reading about them and …

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Irksome Memes, The Dog of Wisdom and Funky Bright

Greetings dear blog reader! This post starts with a complaint, of sorts. Not against a person as such, more directed at the internet. I like the internet. It's fun, informative, useful, and some might argue necessary in our modern world. Yeah, we'll see. The internet won't save you when the men come, with their guns. …

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The secret lives of characters

Characters in books are real people. They are born from the mind of an author who observes the people around them. Their inner writer, the always vigilant note taker, keeps an eye out for interesting personalities, quirks, idiosyncrasies, habits, sayings, mannerisms and everything in between. Writers may copy and paste an entire real life personality …

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