Well, CRAP.

I just had a Thought, sparked by Scalzi's latest Big Idea thing.

Instead of the protag in my Zombies! story being the Dad... what if s/he's the Mom instead? How would that change the dynamic? And the ending? And the entire frakking narrative?

OH GOD I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE MY BRAIN MAKE IT STOP.

Of course, my overarching problem is that, whoever my protag is, s/he doesn't have any resources to effect a cure anyway. S/he might as well be the local garbage collector as the medical examiner, because the power is out and s/he has no way of communicating with the Outside World (s/he lives in a small town in Texas). It's hopeless from the get-go, but s/he has to try because it's hir daughter.

I'm to the point where I want to throw every single WIP I have over a bridge and follow it into the murky water below. When did writing get hard?

Well, CRAP.

I just had a Thought, sparked by Scalzi's latest Big Idea thing.

Instead of the protag in my Zombies! story being the Dad... what if s/he's the Mom instead? How would that change the dynamic? And the ending? And the entire frakking narrative?

OH GOD I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE MY BRAIN MAKE IT STOP.

Of course, my overarching problem is that, whoever my protag is, s/he doesn't have any resources to effect a cure anyway. S/he might as well be the local garbage collector as the medical examiner, because the power is out and s/he has no way of communicating with the Outside World (s/he lives in a small town in Texas). It's hopeless from the get-go, but s/he has to try because it's hir daughter.

I'm to the point where I want to throw every single WIP I have over a bridge and follow it into the murky water below. When did writing get hard?

FOR THAT MATTER...

WHY IN THE HELL is my protag (who is not Stoopid) staying in his tiny town with the power out and no resources anyway? Wouldn't he get the hell out and go someplace like Austin or College Station, which have, you know, great big UNIVERSITIES, and see what they know?

I mean, with the power out in his town and no communication, for all he knows, the rest of the world is dead normal.

I have thought about a quarantine situation, where the Feds look at the OMG ZOMBIES!, which are just in that little town, and say "Nuh-uh, no one gets in or out, and we shoot anyone who tries." O HAI NATIONAL GUARD HOW R U TODAY? So, at least he'd be stuck there for a reason.

Hm. He could get out, with his bitten-but-showing-no-signs-yet daughter, via a dirt road very few people know about, and find out the rest of the world is dead normal. And then the daughter gets loose, and he's personally responsible for the Zombie Apocalypse.

That might be fun.

TOO MANY CHOICES OMG. *bangs head repeatedly on keyboard* alkdfja;lfja;lfakjl;fj I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE THIS.

FOR THAT MATTER...

WHY IN THE HELL is my protag (who is not Stoopid) staying in his tiny town with the power out and no resources anyway? Wouldn't he get the hell out and go someplace like Austin or College Station, which have, you know, great big UNIVERSITIES, and see what they know?

I mean, with the power out in his town and no communication, for all he knows, the rest of the world is dead normal.

I have thought about a quarantine situation, where the Feds look at the OMG ZOMBIES!, which are just in that little town, and say "Nuh-uh, no one gets in or out, and we shoot anyone who tries." O HAI NATIONAL GUARD HOW R U TODAY? So, at least he'd be stuck there for a reason.

Hm. He could get out, with his bitten-but-showing-no-signs-yet daughter, via a dirt road very few people know about, and find out the rest of the world is dead normal. And then the daughter gets loose, and he's personally responsible for the Zombie Apocalypse.

That might be fun.

TOO MANY CHOICES OMG. *bangs head repeatedly on keyboard* alkdfja;lfja;lfakjl;fj I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE THIS.