lalalalalala bamba
I'm a writer.
Shane Cartledge
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Age 33, Male
Curtin Uni
Perth, Australia
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I used to play la bamba on guitar when I was 13. All the other guitarists would sit in a circle and we would play. Oh the memories.
What is your novel about?
It starts out following Alexander, a young man, as his city is torn down by an unsuspecting enemy. He is evacuated from the city, war has been declared. He catches wind that his father is ill, and it is suspected that he is dying from a manufactured virus as a part of the enemy's attacks. He flees the country to seek a cure for the virus, but instead is swept up in something much larger than he, or anyone else, for that matter, could ever anticipate. The war changes and evolves, and an underground uprising of the undead and vampires causes him to step forward and attempt to assassinate the ruthless leader provoking it all...
I see you already have the dust cover written :P
It sounds like a weird combination of many zombie movies and V for Vendetta. I suppose I'd have to read it to get the real essence of it, but it sounds rather interesting.
Do you have it all planned out in your head, or is the story evolving as you write?
I've got a bit of a chapter by chapter breakdown, but that's really loose, so I'm filling it all out, and letting it evolve somewhat as I go, so a bit of both.
It's been a bit of a long journey even just to get part way through chapter 2. I think from the first short story that inspired the idea to now, it's been about a year in planning and actually writing. I'm a fan of the overblown dramatic fantasy of Lord of the Rings and Star Wars, and the gritty horror of H.P Lovecraft, so it's only natural that I include elements of the expected cliches, but I'm also hoping to diminish the cheesiness of the cliches through giving them my own descriptions, and bringing them to life not through cultural expectations, but through my own picking and choosing of words. I guess I think of Twilight and how it attempted to reconstruct the vampire genre, and I'm hoping I can manage to remodel characters on my own terms. In fact, I'm really quite reluctant to use the term "vampire" or "zombie". I think I've decided upon adopting the term "shadow breather" or something like that. Heh.
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