Maybe we could try a zombie-type thing... Like people can write many different shorts about the same zombie apocalypse. You know? All different points of view, varying lengths, different characters. Anybody think this thing could be something?

I like that concept - not necessarily with zombies but as a different way to write.

How would we implement it though? Assign different times within the story to each of us?

Quoted from stevie I like that concept - not necessarily with zombies but as a different way to write. How would we implement it though? Assign different times within the story to each of us?

No. It doesn't have to be chronological. Pick a particular story during some point of it. Tell your story.

Yep, could be good. Maybe it should be a max page length, of, say, 20 pages?

Quoted from stevie Yep, could be good. Maybe it should be a max page length, of, say, 20 pages?

Yeah, I mean I wouldn't picture any particular story being over 30 pages total, but I think if it requires a certain amount of pages to tell it, tell it.

You create a universe and then you each write a story within that universe.   So there's some kind of way the zombie thing happened, the zombies act in a certain way, you can catch it or you can't...that sort of thing needs to be established.  


Then you can either create scenarios that each of you will pick for an independent story  which is sort of the way Please Remain Calm was done or you each go off and do your own thing in the universe.


Michael

Quoted from screenrider I'm gonna write about a Christian zombie...he only eats atheists.

But if he eats me, how will I be able to write anything? =(

Quoted from screenrider Don't worry, Mr. Blonde, my zombie won't eat heathen screenwriter's either.

Cool. In return for your graciousnes, I'm going to leave out my sequence where zombies descend upon a church who munch on people while they're praying. =)

Oh, I don't care if other people do it. Zombies are my favorite genre. I have seven different zombie scripts I'm working on, plu a comic book, so I love them. If others do, too, then cool. But, I'm not telling anyone to do anything.

EDIT: Besides, vampires (when compared to zombies) suck. Zombies beat them in so many way, but vampires seem to be what's big right now.

Been there.  Done that.


Phil

Quoted from dogglebe Been there.  Done that. Phil

That's ok. You don't even like zombies anyway.

This is a really good idea. Would there be a way that the character from the next story somehow figures into the very last of the story before theirs?

For instance the last scene of the story something, presumably a zombie, is chasing after that story's character and runs into the road and gets hit. Then the next story that takes over is the story of the driver who just hit that zombie. And I mean like a furious smash cut between the scenes. One instant your on the road with the zombie running into the road and BAM, your in the car as the zombie cartwheels over the roof.

Sounds fun.

Quoted from JCShadow This is a really good idea. Would there be a way that the character from the next story somehow figures into the very last of the story before theirs? For instance the last scene of the story something, presumably a zombie, is chasing after that story's character and runs into the road and gets hit. Then the next story that takes over is the story of the driver who just hit that zombie. And I mean like a furious smash cut between the scenes. One instant your on the road with the zombie running into the road and BAM, your in the car as the zombie cartwheels over the roof. Sounds fun.

You could if you wanted. There's no stipulated rule that says stories can't intersect.

Quoted from Mr. Blonde EDIT: Besides, vampires (when compared to zombies) suck. Zombies beat them in so many way, but vampires seem to be what's big right now.

That's because zombies are mindless brain mongers. At least, not of late, a vampire was once human and uinderstands what they do. They still have to live with the guilt of who they kill. Not been visited enough. Ironically just wrote a short about that.

For zombies, I say we steal Phil's idea of a world that was infested, but is recovering... Did I just say that out loud?

James

Christ, do I hate you, James...


Phil