I just uploaded the song Scar Chasm by my old band, Shadow Puppets on our MySpace page. You can find the lyrics to it on the Zombie Killer Genesis blog. I still plan on making a video for it, but haven't gotten around to it yet. Been busy. I just put out chapter 10 of the Nocent. Hope you enjoy it. So far, readers have voted unanimously for me to start putting out a chapter on Mondays too. So let it be written, so let it be done. Your wand is my commish. Oh, I am now down to fewer than 100 days left in the Navy! Double digits, baby! I just got some new friends on Facebook. Most of them are old high school friends. If you're reading this, hello!
Showing posts with label Nocent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nocent. Show all posts
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Monday, December 20, 2010
On The Inside
To start off with, I just have to get this tidbit of trivia off my chest. Whenever I listen to the song, Tusk by Fleetwood Mac off their album, Tusk, it strikes me that the drum breakdown is exactly the same one from Slipknot's song Only One from their eponymous album. Of course, Fleetwood's album came out in 1979 and Slipknot came out in 1999 so it's clear what came first. Check it out for yourself and see if I'm crazy.
But what I really wanted to talk about is how my emotions have helped me to write more meaningful (at least in my opinion) characterizations. Before I met my amazing wife, I was so closed off to my emotions. Now I alternate between anger and depression with moments of laughter sprinkled here and there. My psychologist says she wants to get a second opinion by my psychiatrist before diagnosing me with bipolar disorder because once it's in my medical record, it's permanent.
Anyway, I enjoy giving some depth to my characters by talking about various emotions they have in response to different situations I place them in. It gives a satisfying richness to the narrative that I like to read as much as I like to write them. The biggest problem my wife and I have with horror movies these days is that many of the characters do stupid things that inevitably lead to their demise. To me, a scary movie would have a character making intelligent choices and doing things exactly the way I would do them, but ends up dying anyway. What's scary about a killer who knows how to kill idiots? A revolving door could do that. Man, I come off sounding like a whiny, cynical asshole sometimes.
Well, at this moment I'm about halfway through writing the sequel to the Nocent book. I uploaded a chapter from the Nocent part 3: Revenant War on Helium.com under the heading Novel excerpts: zombies. I wanted to put out a piece that will exhibit emotion-driven characterization. This is the first morsel of my newest book that I've revealed to the world. Hope you enjoy it!
But what I really wanted to talk about is how my emotions have helped me to write more meaningful (at least in my opinion) characterizations. Before I met my amazing wife, I was so closed off to my emotions. Now I alternate between anger and depression with moments of laughter sprinkled here and there. My psychologist says she wants to get a second opinion by my psychiatrist before diagnosing me with bipolar disorder because once it's in my medical record, it's permanent.
Anyway, I enjoy giving some depth to my characters by talking about various emotions they have in response to different situations I place them in. It gives a satisfying richness to the narrative that I like to read as much as I like to write them. The biggest problem my wife and I have with horror movies these days is that many of the characters do stupid things that inevitably lead to their demise. To me, a scary movie would have a character making intelligent choices and doing things exactly the way I would do them, but ends up dying anyway. What's scary about a killer who knows how to kill idiots? A revolving door could do that. Man, I come off sounding like a whiny, cynical asshole sometimes.
Well, at this moment I'm about halfway through writing the sequel to the Nocent book. I uploaded a chapter from the Nocent part 3: Revenant War on Helium.com under the heading Novel excerpts: zombies. I wanted to put out a piece that will exhibit emotion-driven characterization. This is the first morsel of my newest book that I've revealed to the world. Hope you enjoy it!
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
My Concept of Vampires
I've read so many vampire books and seen so many movies that I wanted to come up with a unique history and mythos for my vampires. I mention this because, as you know, the Nocent series revolves around a zombie vs vampire war. My zombies are unique too, but I'll talk more about them some other time.
The thing that makes my vampires unique is ectoplasm. Their flesh is infused with it. In my stories, ectoplasm is a substance that exists between the spiritual plane and the physical realm, as I mentioned in my blog about time travel. That is why conventional weapons do not harm vampires. Bullets pass straight through into the Other Side. Garlic nullifies the ectoplasmic properties and traps the vampire in our world where it becomes vulnerable to mortal weapons. Holy water has the opposite effect. It traps the vampire in the spiritual realm where it can no longer cross over into ours. Ectoplasm is also photo-sensitive and will dissolve in sunlight.
The last thing I came up with is that ectoplasm feeds off negative energy. Fear, anger and hatred will make a vampire stronger. Faith, hope and love can weaken it. I'll go into the history of my vampires some other time. I don't want to go too much into it before you've had a chance to read the stories which will illustrate it.
The thing that makes my vampires unique is ectoplasm. Their flesh is infused with it. In my stories, ectoplasm is a substance that exists between the spiritual plane and the physical realm, as I mentioned in my blog about time travel. That is why conventional weapons do not harm vampires. Bullets pass straight through into the Other Side. Garlic nullifies the ectoplasmic properties and traps the vampire in our world where it becomes vulnerable to mortal weapons. Holy water has the opposite effect. It traps the vampire in the spiritual realm where it can no longer cross over into ours. Ectoplasm is also photo-sensitive and will dissolve in sunlight.
The last thing I came up with is that ectoplasm feeds off negative energy. Fear, anger and hatred will make a vampire stronger. Faith, hope and love can weaken it. I'll go into the history of my vampires some other time. I don't want to go too much into it before you've had a chance to read the stories which will illustrate it.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Good Friday Killer
This is a killer who shows up in quite a few of my stories. He started out as a character in the Nocent series, named Daniel Reese. Giving Daniel a background was the fun part. I had to give him a history that involved the Varson brothers, as well as a motive for killing. In a future blog I will go into detail about his connection to the Varsons, but this is about him.
I don't know where it was that I read that pigs are good swimmers, but that got me thinking. In the Bible, when Jesus transferred Legion out of the man and into the herd of 2,000 pigs, they all ran down a hill and into some water and supposedly drowned. Well, if they were such good swimmers, why the heck would they drown like that? What if, after Jesus left, the owner of the herd went down to see his pigs and became possessed by Legion?
Okay, well, since Legion was in a whole herd of 2,000 pigs, it would only be one of the demons who actually possessed the pigherder. It might then become his obsession to regain the full company of his Legion of demons. My idea is that he killed his first victim the day Jesus was crucified. Then, every year on the anniversary of that day, he killed one more person. Once he reached two thousand, he would be at his full strength. Supposing that Jesus was around 33 when he was crucified, that would make it about 2033 when Legion was able to be his worst. Anyway, that's my story and I'm stickin to it.
I don't know where it was that I read that pigs are good swimmers, but that got me thinking. In the Bible, when Jesus transferred Legion out of the man and into the herd of 2,000 pigs, they all ran down a hill and into some water and supposedly drowned. Well, if they were such good swimmers, why the heck would they drown like that? What if, after Jesus left, the owner of the herd went down to see his pigs and became possessed by Legion?
Okay, well, since Legion was in a whole herd of 2,000 pigs, it would only be one of the demons who actually possessed the pigherder. It might then become his obsession to regain the full company of his Legion of demons. My idea is that he killed his first victim the day Jesus was crucified. Then, every year on the anniversary of that day, he killed one more person. Once he reached two thousand, he would be at his full strength. Supposing that Jesus was around 33 when he was crucified, that would make it about 2033 when Legion was able to be his worst. Anyway, that's my story and I'm stickin to it.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
A little about my blog
I am the author of a zombies vs. vampires novel called The Nocent part 2: Advent of the Scathing. My wife bought us a bumper sticker for our car which says, "I'd Rather Be Killing Zombies". I work on a Navy base and every time we pass through the gate, the gate guards see our sticker. We have earned the nickname Zombie Killers.
I am always in the process of writing new stories, including the sequel to my first novel. It's working title is The Nocent part 3: Revenant War. This blog is for the purpose of sharing with the world some of my crazy ideas. The name of my blogsite, Necrolepsy, comes from one of those crazy ideas. One day I was thinking about A Nightmare On Elm Street and the fact that people were afraid to fall asleep because they might be killed. I came up with the idea: what if instead of becoming a victim when you sleep, you become a killer? I made up a name for such an affliction: Necrolepsy. It can also be called Somnihilism.
Needless to say, that very concept is the premise of a new story of mine. Most of my stories are short, but I have several novels in the works. I plan to publish a compilation of my short stories along with my book-length stories. I also have a bunch of children's books I've written (not zombie-related).
I am always in the process of writing new stories, including the sequel to my first novel. It's working title is The Nocent part 3: Revenant War. This blog is for the purpose of sharing with the world some of my crazy ideas. The name of my blogsite, Necrolepsy, comes from one of those crazy ideas. One day I was thinking about A Nightmare On Elm Street and the fact that people were afraid to fall asleep because they might be killed. I came up with the idea: what if instead of becoming a victim when you sleep, you become a killer? I made up a name for such an affliction: Necrolepsy. It can also be called Somnihilism.
Needless to say, that very concept is the premise of a new story of mine. Most of my stories are short, but I have several novels in the works. I plan to publish a compilation of my short stories along with my book-length stories. I also have a bunch of children's books I've written (not zombie-related).
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