Why is everyone writing about zombies?

I had planned to bring my main character's father back as a zombie (who has yet to show up), but decided it should be a ghost--who only the main character has the misfortune to see, oh the joy-- and who will get bored with being incorporeal and dig up his own hand to touch stuff with. Bizarre and gross, together at last. Um, or always.

The reality is that Sean of the Dead changed people's lives. Zombies could suddenly be funny without being campy and poorly done (as opposed to the Evil Dead style of humor). Who doesn't want zombies in a world where such awesomeness is possible?

I liked your excerpt; fun dialogue, and well broken up with action. It made me remember that I've sacrificed dialogue in favor of word count--may have to remedy that soon. Or in December.

Good luck.

Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is Torment.

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I'm not writing about zombies.. I'm writing about a pancake named Alan-san.

"brains" (low, monotone, ignorant voice) inspires laughter in ME everytime i hear it. why shouldn't it to others?

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I think it's because of Shaun of the Dead, which showed us the walking undead can be goddamn hillarious.

"Brains! BRAINS!"

"I'm a pursuer of Justice, because it's damn hard to catch"
-Liberty and Justice, Nanowrimo '07

I'll follow that Shaun of the Dead nod.

"They were a bit bitey"

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I'll go even slightly beyond Shaun of the Dead, since that one was actually part of the Zombie Revival. I've been a zombie fan since I was a kid watching the old Romero movies. It wasn't until the Hollywood recycler did the remake of Dawn of the Dead and the somewhat original "28 Days Later" that the zombie truly came back to public awareness.

There's always been a fair amount of humor in the zombie flicks. Th eReturn of the Living Dead movies would always throw joke zombies into the big crowds and Romero's shopping zombies in the original Dawn of the Dead were great.

I recommend the recent movie Fido for zombie fans. It's pure genius.

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Why is anyone *not* writing about zombies?
Zombies are the new ninjas. :D

I think zombies are the humour forums new ninjas.

I am for the record (not really doing much) writing about saving the wurld.
There aren't any zombies... yet.
But I do have an evil unicorn!

"I've lived a thousand lives in the comfort of my own, I'll live several more, but as what remains unknown."

2005: Stumbling Down & Untitled - Fail
2006: Gruesome Girl: Tales of Sad Susan - Fail
2007: Today's Tuesday - In Progress

i'm not writing about zombies, but i had a dream about a week back about putting zombies into my novel... i was so disappointed when i realised it just wouldn't work.

next year though!

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FUNERAL MUTES

I know I'm probably very late on this, but here's what happened to me:

I went to most of the NaNoWriMo events and somehow, zombies kept entering the conversation. So at the overnight writing session we kept making jokes about zombies because we were locked up in a Presbyterian church in Chinatown, (and actually we were supposed to be in the BASEMENT of that church) and so in the end I relented and had my character, during an impromptu word war, think about zombies.

I got 864 words out of it. And I'm not removing it.

"Man is free, yet everywhere he goes he is in chains" Rousseau

I haven't written about zombies this year and I don't plan to, unless that is the twist shock epilogue that i can add when I'm done.

All these zombies have given me an idea of how to solve a problem in a long abandoned story. It may work. It may not.

I'll be giving it a try when I finally get my NaNo novel finished and I reckon that I've probably got another 15k to go before the story ends.

I wrote about superheroes! Except, well, one of them summoned the undead to do his bidding. Zombies. I hadn't really intended to write about zombies, but there you go. There's just something about good old-fashioned voodoo-enchanted zombies that makes me squee. None of this newfangled zombie-virus crap. The fact that the zombies were working for a superhero (or supervillain? I could never quite tell the difference in my novel) just made it all the better.

2003: Superhero
2004: Shell Jumping
2005: Deuces Wild
2006: Idol of the Idle
[b]2007: Don't Be A Hero[/b]