Distractions and infections

It's been too long, time to post new stuff!

I haven't been posting for awhile because I'm easily distracted. So here's two things I've been distracted by lately:

First, a link to what I actually HAVE been writing. A link, coz it's fanfiction, and for some reason I don't really want to put it on my blog (copyright? Because people may not like it? Lameness? Take your pick as to possible reasons :P)

Oh, and there are two links, coz I posted to two sites. Your regular old fanfiction.net where everything goes http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8597131/1/The-Studying-Obsession and a site designed for the particular fandom (which one? You'll have to click to find out) http://www.fimfiction.net/story/56793/The-Studying-Obsession

Second, a new thing. Ideas constantly plague me, and I've wanted to write this story for ages, so this is the character voice that came to me at about 2am this morning. This is unique in that this isn't the usual way I start writing a story (not to mention first person narration is not my thing). 

The urge to eat the flesh of a human, that’s something that takes getting used to. It’s what I imagine being addicted to a drug is like, because, in life, I never had that experience myself. Not even the soft stuff. So I wasn't even addicted to coffee. But this feeling, it's more like the hardcore drugs. The urge to eat the flesh of ‘humans’ is like a heroin addiction brought on from only being in the general vicinity of heroin.

This is a kind of crazy and baffling thing. Especially if you were one of many like me who never even realised they were infected before the cravings hit.

Most of us have stories as to how we got this way. Even the ones who didn’t know right away realised in hindsight how it probably happened, but for me, it’s a complete mystery. One day I was a normal human being, the next day I was trying to stop myself from chewing the arm off the woman who sat too close beside me on the bus.

At least no one will ever do that to me again.

But I’m getting ahead of myself, I guess. I should start from the beginning.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock – a very nice rock where the problems of the world don’t touch you – you will know all about the zombie virus.

That’s not its official name, but you don’t grow up in the generation that sells a manual of how to survive the zombie apocalypse and not call it that. 

Not that this is an apocalypse. 

I’m not an apocalypse. I resent that. 

But I resent most people these days, no matter what they call me.

Zombies, the undead or the infected, whatever people might call us, we’re not monsters. When the zombie virus hit, it wasn’t in the way people were expecting. I’m not what people expected from a flesh-eating monster. So it’s understandable, with the abounding pop culture references, that humans reacted in the way they did to this new threat to their neat little worlds.

You see, traditionally, zombies were always after brains because theirs were … gone? Melted? Broken? Who knows the science behind movie zombies, but the science behind our brains is that they still work. We’re still thinking members of the homo sapien family.

We’re just not those living, breathing examples. Not the shining paragon of evolution, which, I assume, was the idea behind what caused this outbreak in the first place: a way to cheat death.

And we do – cheat death. Since I found out I was … death-challenged, I have ‘lived’ through a few experiences that would spell death for a normal human. It’s not easy to patch up broken bones when they’re not gonna grow back, let me tell you.

Yeah, so there's that. Dunno where it's going, but hey! Zombies! Is it gonna be an exploration of what it means to be human? Is it going to be an apocalypse story? One about the evils of humanity? A comedy? A drama? A coming-of-age story for a zombie? Who knows. If you wanna give suggestions, maybe adopt it so I'll write it for you, leave me a comment, we'll see how it goes.

And other than that, I've been trying to work up the courage and skills to create a vlog. Just me reading my stories out loud and posting them to YouTube. I have lots of ideas, but very little skill, so if you wanna help me actually get stuff done, by all means offer your expertise and suggestions.

That's all from me! I have a second part of The Seer, Princess Tilly and Tracey and the Space Pirates all with varying degrees of done-ness, so if you wanna see something sooner rather than later, keep those encouragements coming!

See you all next time. 

P.S Edit: Looking over my 'to be posted' stuff, I also have the beginning of a story titled 'Swans in Space.'
Cast your votes, people! There's a lot of stuff that has potential to be posted within the next week!