@shurleyhall @hollyjahangiri Hi, nice to meet another writer!

I've posted a bit already, but I figured I would make an official introduction post.

I'm Dan, and I'm writing a novel based in a zombie apocalypse that explores humanity, politics, love, life and death through a dusty cracked lens speckled with drops of blood and smeared fingerprints. Its a work in process that I work on during the winter; my off season from my day job, driving dump trucks on a paving crew.

Looking to have convos with other writers and zombie fans!

#newhere #writingcommunity

@NCBookaholic I truly think that he believes the hype and see's himself as an invincible Tony Stark super genius. He thinks his success is due to his supreme intellect, and only he knows whats best for everyone and only he is intelligent enough to understand his actions.

Which is ironic, since that is generally a sign of limited intelligence.

@TERoberts libby looks a little like my pup-pup Nero.

@ContentWarningVirusB42 hmmm, I like that. I'm going to have to think about it some more.

As if cementing my decision to come to CoSo, a twitter rando called me a rookie truck driver this morning. Cool, thanks, I'm actually pretty good at my job, but whatever, you are the gatekeeper of truck drivers so.... cool cool cool.

Happy to be here, everyone has been very nice on CoSo. It's exciting to find this place and I have to thank Elon for that. He spent 44 billion so I could find CoSo. Worth every penny.

@Anouk yeah, this house was on the market for 3 years when the pandemic hit. It needed new septic and a couple small things, but other than that it was honestly good. Every other house we looked as was a battle. Its vermont, so a lot of big city money was buying 2nd homes and real estate at the time for huge inflated prices, so this house was a miracle.

@Anouk we bought ours in 2020 and it was very hard. The one we bought was on the market for years, however, and I think people were suspicious of it.

@jdiannedotson Hi!

@jdiannedotson I'm a writer and I pretend to be an artist.

This may be the most important question ever asked.

Sometimes when a biological male dies, they have a post mortem priapism; an erection that occurs without proper stimulation.

Do zombies have erections?

Is that more scary?

Explain your answer in the form of a musical.

#zombies

I'm all for free speech. Its foundational to a free democratic society. But free speech isn't the same as saying what you want without consequence. I mean, Odins glorious beard knows I have been know to wield words like a hammer, but some use them like a machine gun... and a metaphor I would rather not describe as it is too close to our reality.

@Anouk oh, I love that. I need one of these I think.

I'm not a purist, but I do like classic zombie rules. My zombies are infected and fast, but alive, but if their body dies, they become slow and are typical night of the living dead zombies. I thought of keeping them purely infected crazies, I think thats the most realistic possibility, but undead are a lot of fun.

@vegetarianzombie thanks. The banner image I found somewhere, but the avatar I created using stable diffusion. I wanted a zombie reading a 'mind blowing book' and the Ai gave me this. 😆

@Anouk thanks. I can't wait to write it more. I work seasonally and it consumes my life. But but in a few weeks I will be off and after 8 months baking in the sun thinking about what I want to write, I'll finally be able to put pen to paper..... well, google docs anyway.

@CWTellsTales thats a great start. I have a rule that if things are going well for 10 pages or so, I throw a huge problem at my characters. Depending on pace and length of course. Sometimes even if the last issue hasn't resolved itself yet, more problems. Adaptation means survival, stagnation equals death. For your characters as well as your story.

This is my first ever post. Happy to be here.