[split] Fanfiction, and the Craft of Writing

[Jade]

I just mean that he has a natural talent. Writing a novel is more than just telling a story that you want to be told - it's telling it in a way that a reader can be engaged and follow along. A lot of self-published books in the zombie genre are of a fairly low quality. Also, a lot of modern stories are just repackaging of tropes, where as Kile has a unique place where he gets his ideas from that isn't from modern media - for example, a lot of stories in the zombie theme are light fanfiction for The Walking Dead - he's only seen ~ one season of that show, after he started writing his book, so it's not going to use familiar characters and settings. Really if TV influenced him at all it was through the western angle - the book is more of a western than a zombie book.

I guess I feel I have to protect it from the stigma of the "zombie genre", even though he doesn't even use the word zombie once in the novel. He's just a really good writer and everyone in his whole life has tried to facilitate that. During his second grade year of school, he didn't even attend classes, they kept him in a separate room where he wrote short stories. Two were professional printed/bound by the school and were kept in their library until a couple years ago when the school closed. He has "it". He's legit. 2 legit 2 quit.