writing craft

Zombie Beta Soy Boy (Writing Epizode) | Zombie Book Club Ep 166

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Dan got his zombie novella, The Bad Road, back from a beta reader with thousands of tracked edits and lived to talk about it. We talk through the real, unglamorous mechanics of revision; accepting changes one at a time and building the instinct to write clean sentences from the start. We talk about why feedback … Read more

Steel City Apocalypse: Zombies, Zoos, and Zero Regrets with A.M. Geever | Zombie Book Club Ep. 164

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We sit down with award-winning author A.M. Geever to talk Steel City Apocalypse, a slow-burn outbreak story that traps its survivors inside a Pittsburgh zoo built to keep dangerous animals in (and, as it were, zombies out). We talk about plotting with evolving outlines, killing your darlings (scenes and characters alike), sunk cost, and why … Read more