the dead also become draculas, adding to the outbreak.
Joe
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Just read your additions, Paul. Expertly done, you tying together four main characters, and amusing as well.
This is gonna kick ass.
Joe
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Randall sounds good for my lumberjack (and I’ll make him responsible for calling them “draculas” instead of “vampires.”)
My dracula is Benny, a children’s performer clown whose magic show was poorly received by the birthday boy. Randall and Benny bond over the embarrassing nature of their injuries.
Since Joe is mean and impatient, I’ll say upfront that I won’t be able to start writing until the 17th, but I’ll launch right into it like a maniac after that!
Jeff
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Dracula clown. Awesome. I’ll put Benny and Dr. Kurt in the massacre scene. I should be able to knock that out in a day or two.
I won’t be able to go full-force on this until June. So if Blake and Paul want to get going, go for it. Just keep me and Jeff in the loop.
Joe
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Ditto…super-cool, Paul. Can’t wait to see what toys Clay brings to the party.
Blake
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Joe’s also a selfish lover, let’s not forget that.
A dracula clown? I’m scared of normal clowns. That’s awesome!
Blake
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Joe - when you get the ER massacre done, I’ll work on the morgue and maybe we can have the setup done in a few days…I’m working on a couple other projects, but I should be able to get a little of this in every day. Helps that it’s a blast to write.
Blake
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Jeff, please use my favorite line about clowns. The birthday boy said, “That’s not a clown! That’s just some guy dressed up like a clown!”
Paul
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That may very well be the best line of all time…
Jeff
May 10, 2010
I think my characters will be Adam and Stacie Murray. Stacie’s in the hospital to be induced for her first pregnancy - twins. They’re sort of a young, gentle, bright-eyed couple. Around 30. Stacie is a high-school English teacher on maternity leave and Adam is a Lutheran minister. He’s been in Durango about 5 years, and recently took over a church. Sometimes he serves as the hospital chaplain. He knows Randall and Clayton. Maybe he’s even tried to help Randall in the past when he’s gone on a drunken tear. I do like the idea a lot that this is a small town, and all these characters not only know each other, but have history.
Blake
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He’ll be very disappointed when crosses don’t work.
Paul
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Yeah, I’m sensing a crisis of faith coming…
Blake
May 12, 2010
…Deputy Theel will be bringing to the party: http://world.guns.ru/grenade/gl15-e.htm
It’s going to be loaded with his custom 40mm Beehive rounds filled with 00buck. So we’re going to need LOTS of draculas. Be great to have a situation where one of your characters is facing absolutely hopeless odd and then there’s this horrendous racket and the draculas’ heads are being shredded…and Clay rounds a corner with this baby.
Of course he’s eventually going to run out of ammo.
Paul
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Nice.
He should have one of these too.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/78284/automatic_shotgun/
Joe
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The famous “streetsweeper.”
Paul
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Well, my priest has a can of really intense mace from his wife’s purse. Take that, vampire!
Blake
May 31, 2010
I’m thinking we need a throughline. You know, a progression of story beats for the big picture — how it’s gonna go. Or maybe just a timeline so that we know what’s going on with the big picture and we can plug into that.
What’s the time span of the novel? 4 hours? 5? 6?
For instance…(this is just placeholder stuff):
Hour 1: carnage in the ER
Hour 2: the first victims change and begin to attack; no one aware of he threat except new victims
Hour 3: 20 Draculas now and rising - panic spreads; tires slashed; phones dead (how do we kill cells?)
See where I’m going? It will save a lot of editing and rewriting later if we’re all on the same page re the timing.
Paul
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Agreed.
I’m still cranking on deadlines, but hope to get started on this soon—perhaps July?
Joe
June 11, 2010
Blake is visiting me for a few days in July. We’re going to hammer out the timeline and first attack scene, then everyone can get rolling on their story arcs.
Joe
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