Week eight.

Topic:
In my story I finally got to a part I've been planning since the beginning. My bad guy blew up Connor's house. They all survived and now i have to figure out what to do next. I figured since I already have 60 thousand words, I could end the book here. I found a way that I could split my original idea for one story into three boos. The original plan had three parts any way, and since part one was so long, I can just make it a book on its own.

Example:
Instead of writing this week, mostly what I did was plan my characters and the future that will become of them. I know every thing that is going to happen and i have pictures for all three
Izzy: 
Connor:

And Levi.




Analysis:
Now that I know I'm finished with book one, I have to go back and make sure that my climax really feels like a climax. Make sure its exciting enough. The I have to actually end the book. After that I need to go back over the whole thing several times. So, I think I have finally managed to finish a book! I have never done that before, and have two more planned.

Meaning:
This is my last blog. I has kept my thought organized and has helped me keep track of what was going on in the story at a certain time. And now that I have pretty much finished a book, I can be done with this story for at the least a few days.

Week Seven:

Topic:
This week encompassed two people. Well, all three actually. This chapter had super drama. A zombie fight lead to a near death.

Example:

   Okay… first off, just so you know, being dead sucks. I couldn't see, couldn't breathe, couldn't move, couldn't hear. I had to just lay there suspended in the darkness of my own head, feeling only the pain in my lungs from lack of air and the pounding of my heart in my chest.

I'm gonna die,  was all I could think. It felt like something was holding me under the ground, and the tons of dirt were pressing in on me from all sides. I was going to suffocate inside of myself and the last thing I would ever say  would be “what's happening”. I mean, talk about horrible last words.

The longer I lay there, the more I felt my consciousness slip away. I couldn't make a thought stick. As soon as I thought it it would slip between my fingers like water. I felt my heartbeat slow. I was really dying.

After what felt like an eternity suspended in the blackness of my own mind, I finally felt about to disappear. My lungs couldn't handle the lack of air any longer and the pain became a screaming monster in my chest. The pounding of my heart thumped to a stop, leaving me in silence as I slipped away. The blackness of my mind became darker and blacker and engulfed what little was left of my consciousness.

Then I woke up.

Meaning:
Earlier in the story, we found out about a Bug that attached to the backs of peoples necks and when they feel any kind of sharp pain, the sense of pain that is sent up your nerves, it basically hacked by the bug. It attaches onto the victems brainstem and erases their mind, replacing it only with a sense of hunger. That's how the bug survives. It is a parasite. People atain them before turning into the monsters. If it is removed before they turn, they are saved. But the catch is, the bugs have a camaflouge device, where, when someone looks at them, they cant be seen. Only one kind of blood type can tell they are there without having them pointed out. The scientists that made this bug had to use human blood to make it so they could bond. The scientist used the rarest blood type. AB-. One of my characters is an AB-, and she saw it on Connor. This same thing happened to him before when they first removed it. It affected him permantely, so when ever he gets bit by one of the undeads, it will happen again.


Analysis:
I am finally getting passed where I need to be. They are figuring out the Bug. My climax is fast approaching once I get over this hump. They just have to leave Connor's house, and after that, I can finally finish wrapping up everything thats going on. I have so much planned for this story, and I needed a long begining before the real zombie apocalypse living style starts to bulid up the relation ships. That way, when what happens next happens, my readers will be completly sympathetic.

Week six:

Topic:
Outside of Fridays, I spend a LOT of time working on this story. I managed to finish Izzy's chapter between weeks, and now I'm onto Connor, but I will still talk about Izzy, because, why not. She hasn't attained the spotlight for a while.

Example:

I was surprised that I hadn't worn a ditch in the carpet, I had been pacing so much. Sure, Levi had not even been gone ten minutes, but I was still worried.

Levi had been an idiot, yelling at Connor like that. I understood that he just lost his best friend, and from what he had said, had a bad experience with his father, but saying all those awful things to Connor wasn't going to make anything better. It would make everything worse. Worse than it already was. Since the moment we shared that ravioli in that dark closet back at our hellhole of a school, the three of us had been a team, and had decided to make it through all of this, whatever it was this was, the apocalypse, the end of the world, or just an extremely traumatic experience, we were going to make it through this together, whatever it took. And Levi shouting at Connor the way he had for no reason, could tear the three of us apart.

Just then the back door opened with a clicking of the hinges and swooshing of the hydraulics. with a sound of elation I rushed to the hall, and froze.

“What the heck!” I was so taken off guard by what I saw it just slipped out.  They both stood in the doorway shivering, the cold wind from the outside sweeping over my bare foot as the door swished to a shut behind them. Connor handed Levi his purple jacket, teeth chattering.

They looked horrible.

Levi’s eyebrow was split and bled freely down the side of his face. His jaw was swollen and a large lump was forming in front of his temple. In one hand he clutched his shoulder, wincing and one side of his face was covered in soil.

Connor’s nose was a bloody mess, his lower lip was split, and one of his eyes was blackening. He didn't look as bad as Levi, but they both looked as if they had taken a hard beating.

“What happened?”

“What do you think happened?” Connor asked, sounding entirely too cheerful.

“You beat the crap out of each other?” I suggested.

Analysis:
Basically the rest of this chapter is just her fixing their various injuries. Honstly I'm not sure how I got ten pages out of that, but that is really all that happened. They seriously hurt one another. Luckily, no one broke anything.

Meaning:
I can write Izzy's chapters way faster than the other two and I think that's because, out of the three, I have the most in common with her. Plus, I'm not putting on nearly as much of a persona. Fifteen year old girl is easier for me that 15 year old boy or 17 year old boy.

Week five

Topic:

This week was dedicated to Levi. Now, it may seem like he's getting a lot of dedication, but since I'm not going entirely in order, he only gets as much as the others. Actually less, but that's why I'm trying to give him more. Again, I got stuck. I looked at nanowrimo dare machine, and it said make two of your most important characters get into a fist fight. I knew I could apply this. I thought, "Let's make Connor and Levi punch each other in the face... again." what I wrote here is leading up to the fist fight.

Example

“This was your idea. Mission “cheer me up” seems to be poorly planned, Storming.”

“Why do people keep calling me Storming?”

“It's your last name, Dufus”

“Yes, but my first name is Connor. C-O-N-N-O-R. Just call me that.” he opened his own bag of popcorn and threw a handful into his mouth.

For some reason, I suddenly felt mad. Like all of the emotions I had been feeling suddenly converted themselves to rage.

“Because, you ran around in some stupid jersey that had your name printed on the back all the time. Not your first, you're last. Sorry if two years of rubbing your name in everyone’s face took effect” I practically shouted. They all stared. Connor stopped mid-chew and swallow, frowning.

“What's your deal?”

“What’s my deal? What’s my effing deal? I’ll tell you what my deal is. My best friend just died, right in front of me, and my dad didn't give a crap that I could be dead. And right now I'm in the dumb house of Connor Storming, who flounced around in football jersey all the time, showing of how completely amazing he was because nothing was ever wrong with his life and now you give me effing popcorn and expect that just because you offered to watch some movie that makes us friends. Well, news flash, not everyone in the world is head over heels for you. It’s people like you that caused all of my friends to turn into murders. Turn into people that kill. And you're going to sit there and ask me what my deal is?”

I wanted to say more. Scream and shout until I ran out of words to say. But I had already said too much already. My tirade left me drained, and all the rage that had come on me so suddenly, left just as it had come. For a moment I hated myself. Being bitter and turning it on someone else, wouldn't bring Alec back.

After the echo of my voice died the room fell into total silence.

“Alright” Connor said flatly, swallowing again, his voice breaking, “fine”

Meaning:

Levi totally snaps here. The main reason is his best friend died, and he just wanted an excuse to be mad. He had no real reason to snap at Connor, but everything that has happened to them made them irrational. Levi was angry and sad all at the same time, and he just used a pitiful excuse to vent it on Connor.

Analysis:

I just finished this chapter, and next it's onto Izzy. It will be talking about her reaction to their fight. I think after the fight, Levi and Connor will be more okay with each other. The fight breaks the tension, and after this the fact that these three will be best friends will be easier to develop.

Blog 4:

So.... I'm confusing myself as well as everyone reading this.I relised that adding Shannon, just made too many holes. I liked her, and I'm saving her for somewhere else, but she doesn't fit. I mean, I had plans for her, and she was important, but she's messing with the chesmistry I wanted my three original main characters to have as best freinds. So she's gone now. She wasn't pointless though. Even after getting rid of her, I passed my writers block that created her in the first place. That's still like three hours of writing wasted, but as long as it helps in the long run. She is gone. She was just a phase. Forget I added her to begain with.

Topic:
Anyway, I finally got back to Connor in this chapter. He, Izzy, and Tommy are still at his house, but levi left to check on his freind, who died (I almost made myself cry with that scene). As I wrote before Izzy decided to call her parents and sister. She was very sad afterwords because her sister didnt pick up, and she's worried about her. Connor tries to cheer her up by playing a bunch of little kids board games like Shoots and Ladders with her.
His chapter actually starts with Levi walking in on him right after they've finished playing a game called pretty pretty princess. It's like a dress up game mixed with a board game. I played it when I was little.

Example:

" “What the heck, man?” was all Levi said when he walked in on me decked out in a silver crown, and assorted plastic blue jewlery. I blinked at him, and grinned sheepishly.

“How‘d it go?”

Levi’s face hardened, “fine.” his voice became devoid of emotion, “but seriously, Connor. what are you wearing and why?”

“You're just the king of bad timing, Levi.” I said, rolling my eyes, then louder shouted, “Izzy! Levi’s back!”

“One sec!” she called from the kitchen.

When she walked in her eyes went from me to Levi, before she burst out laughing.

“I bet you regret winning now, don't you?” she cackled, “you just chose the worst time to come back, 

Levi.” "



Example 2:

" “Levi” I said quietly, “are you-”

“No. No I'm not. Just go away”

“Levi.” Izzy said softly, as she stepped up beside me in front of my houses guest room door, which had become Levi’s room.

“I understand Levi.” I muttered, leaning my forehead against the wooden door, “I completely understand.” tears began to blur my vision of the crack in the door, so I closed them and took a shaky breath, “I lost my best friend, too, yesterday. It's one of the worst things that can ever happen. I get it. But we can't just be sad. If we’re just sad now that’s all we’ll ever be. In this situation, it doesn’t seem like things are getting better, and they might not, but being sad trough it will only make it worse. We have to balance it out with happy. Right now I feel like hiding. Crawling into some dark hole that I don't ever want to come out of. I lost my parents and my best friend. All I have now is my brother and you guys. But I'm not going to hide. I'm not going to waste all the years my parents spent raising me. I'm going to live now for them and Darren. you can live for Alec. Just imagine him telling you that he’s okay. Whenever you feel like crying ,you can cry, but we both have to try to remember, there has to be more than the loss. There is more. I'm not saying we can never cry or be sad about it, but we have to find a way to keep that with the happy. Or maybe I'm just crazy and none of this makes any sense. I just think being alone right now is not what we need.” "

Analysis:

The first one is my lull before the sad. It is just kind of freind bickering. They are all dealing with major loses, and trying to figure out how to cope with it without becoming completly depressed. It shows it more in the second one,but even though Connor has lost the most out of all three in the past two days, he is trying to keep everyone upbeat. I want that to be part of his character.


Meaning:
I need to develope the story around my characters. The next thing I'm doing is writing for Levi again.

One thing I need to figure out, is how to balance all the depressing in my story with funny stuff. the topic I'm using and the story line can make it really depressing. I dont want a dpressing book, so I need to figure out how to fix this.

Topic:

This week I got a little stuck. So, to fix that I'm adding a new character. Her name is in dispute, but I know most of the other stuff about her. I'm going to insert her chapter quite a bit back in the story, and then I'm going to give her another later on. At some point she's going to meet up with my other main characters.


Evidence:

"This was not working out well.

Three hours I had been trapped in the locker rooms, and three hours I had been able to hear the horrible maniacal laughter of the students I had thought died, waxing and waning on the other side the the wooden doors.

After drill, I had been the last one in the locker rooms changing, mostly because I left my shoes outside. I went to get them, and when I came back everyone was all changed. I hadn't even started.

It wasn't the worst turn of events ever. I hadn't gotten shot. But it was, if you considered that everyone on my team had  A: been killed by a shooter, B: turned into one of the cackling corpses or C: forced to run for their life.

Whether or not they were alive, I would not be If I didn't keep the cackling corpses outside of my safe haven."

Analysis:

The characters are really important to a story. I'm going to have to spend more time developing her. I want her to be more hard-core/kick-butt than my others. Connor is strong. He would have to be, considering how many sports he played. But this new girl is lieutenant colonel in ROTC. I haven't had much of a chance to describe her character yet, since I only have a few paragraphs,

Meaning:

Now I need to work more on developing her, developing her story, and back round. Then I need to figure out exactly what happens next.  I haven't had much of a chance to describe her character yet, since I only have a few paragraphs, thats what I need to work on the most.

Blog Number Two.

Week 2:
This week was all about Izzy. Main character number two Where she is now, it has been about a day since the school shootings happened.
She does'nt get much action in this chapter. This is mostly her calling her family. making sure they are all alive. the world has begun its decent into the zombie apaocalypse after all.
Her family consists of her mother, who is currently in Taiwan, for work porposes, her sister, Olive, off to collegd, and her dad, a truck driver who is half way across the country.
Her mom answers the phone despite the fact that it was about two in the morning for her.


“No, I swear,”my voice hitched “I watched people get shot yesterday, Mom. Right in front of me. They just-they just died...and-and they didn't stay dead. Some of them came back, and they were laughing and ate other kids, the ones that did stay dead. Them ate them- and I don’t know what to do. Connor almost turned into one. He had the bug and we all thought he was going to die but, when we pulled it off it was like he died, but then he came back and he was fine. I and don’t want you or Olive or dad to turn into one of those.”

This is part if Izzy's conversation with her mom. This is right after she told her mom the secret to the Undead. The people that die and come back.


I now relise i shoudl probably explian the Zombies a little better.
my zombies are'nt infected by sickness. these are caused by a a parasite scarab like bug that attaches to the base of one's neck. the bug, once attached, extends tendrils into the back of the neck until it connects with the brain stem. it sits there waiting, until there is a sharp pain. pain sends signal through the nerves to you brain. the bug takes this oppertunity to take the mind over. once this happenes, whatever the person was before is gone. the bug turns the once human into a flesh craving monster.
The bugs dont know how to deal with the pain. once the bug attaches the pain stays in that constant state. luckily the bug is the one that feels the pain. the only way it knows how to deal with this is to make the human host luagh. laughing can pbe a pain reliver, so the bug's use this to it's full extent.
the longer the bug is on the human, the smarter it gets. the smarter, faster and stronger the human host gets. and so does is craving for raw flesh.

Anyway so thats how the zombies work.

This week I also worked a little on my second 20% since im doing two... kinda.

Rosetta Warlock:
(I'm thinking of just naming the book Rosetta Warlock.)

"

The bone chilling wind cut through the boy like a dagger. Slicing down to his very marrow, the freezing night unimpeded by the layers of clothing the boy wore.

The monster licked its lips. a warm meal would be much welcomed in this desolate wasteland.Slowly, the beast stalked after its new found prey.

The boy buried his head deeper into his hood and trudged through the snow. While the screaming of the wind was muffled by the scarf, he could still hear it loud in his ears.

A noise to his left. No there wasn't a thing there. He turned back to his struggle through the snow that seemed to have no end.

His prey was moving slowly in the snow. Not like him. He could move so fast the child would never knew he was hurt before he died, but what was the fun in that?  Picking up his pace, the monster broke into a run,until he was only a few feet behind the boy. As he slowed down, the creature rose up on two legs, his face shrank, arms became more proportional, and tail vanished until he looked human. No one would ever have been able to tell what he really was. "

This is the beging to Rosetta Warlock. It's just giving you an idea about the monsters.

This is my first blog about My 20% project titled, "The Laughter of the Undead"


Info you might need to know.
the title of the story is
"The Laughter of the Undead"

This story is basically about a school shooting, that leads to the zombie apocalypse in their area. Which, as you can imagine, brings about many, many complications.

The three main characters in the order they appear.

Connor Storming:
15 year old sophmore. one of the most known kids in his school, and does several of the sports offered at his school. he tends to hang out with the wrong kind of people, but not in way you normally think of. Not smokers and kids that do drugs. He hangs out with the kids that bully other kids, but he's blissfully clueless.
He's kind of a jerk at first without noticing it.
Connor has black-brown hair and blue/grey eyes.

Izzy Dawson:
Izzy is also a fifteen year old sophmore, but she is in a completly diffrent boat as connor. She's the one that sits in the corner readin without talking to anyone. the one who walks alone in the hall ways, and the one that jerks target.
Izzy has light brown hair that curls into tiny little messy ringlets all arounf her head, earning her the cruel nick name "Frizzy" She has freckles that peper her nose and cheeks and hazel eyes verging on green.

Levi Graves:
Levi is a 17 year old junior.The best way I can think to put this is that Levi is the oppisiste of connor. While all the sports fan worship connor making him practically famous, Levi is infamous as king of the goths. Every one thinks of his as the one thats been expelled three times. He has an absolutly horrible homelife and terrible father. Levi almost never goes home, and tends to stay with his best freind Alec, who is more like a brother to him. Most of the people he goes to school with are scared of him, beacuse a partially false reputation proceeds him.
Levi has dyed black hair, two lip peircings and always wears black eyeliner, making him look more intimadating than he actually is.


Week 1:

This week in my story, I was working on Levis second chapter. Levi is the third main character, and I was going over what happened with him on the morning to the attach. I already told what happened to the other two.

What happened to Levi was diffrent for a number of reasons. Firstly, because he was the most in danger of getting killed. The other two also were, but him more so. Levi knew the shooter. They were freinds. Until the shooter barged into the class room and killed Levi's teacher and several fellow students.

It also took longer for Levi to learn about the zombies or Undead as i call them in the book.

Levi' was also diffrent because he tried to save some one else. The other two never had the chance, but Levi risked his life for someone that had hated him a moment before. She did end up dying, but he made the effort.


"It's amazing how someone, who turns out to be a murdering maniac, can be your friend for three years, and you have no idea what he really is. Also, amazing that I could be standing here, over a ådozen terrified eyes fixed on me, and be having a normal conversation with a kid holding a machine gun that he just used to murder our teacher and at least four other students. Crazy."
-Levi


This is a short quote from Levi while he was talking to his ex-freind the shooter. This qote shows how he can be sarcastic even in a situation like this.

" “Mandy,” I whispered as quietly as I could. She nodded eyes wide, “I'm going to stand up and distract him, I need you to crawl around the desks as quietly as you can, then make a brake for the door, and find somewhere to hide.”

“Won't he shoot you?” she asked her voice quivering. Apparently, she didn't hate me enough to not care if I got shot.

“Let me handle that. As soon as I stand, start crawling and stay out of sight, okay?” she nodded, looking as if she wanted to cry. I put a finger to my lips again and stood.

When he saw me, Zach swung the barrel of the gun around to face me and I put my hands up. I could 
feel my heart pounding in my ears. "

This excerpt is showing how heroic Levi can be, even if it fails. I think, even though he thinks Mandy hates him, that Levi doesnt hate any one enough to be a jerk in this kind of situation.