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.