Sean

I recently posted a story on Wattpad, but I have absolutely no idea how to get readers. I've basically only just started using it and the only person I follow is my cousin.

So, what ways are there of advertising your story? I need to know because I really want people to read.

The links here, if you want to have a look yourself. http://www.wattpad.com/23753400-dead-fields-a-zomb...

Please help!

1. The story of the son of a CIA agent. The father and son go on 'holiday' to Russia, where the father is gathering information on Russian weaponry. The son has no idea, but when his father is killed he his left with all the information his father had amassed- enough information to cause a war if it fell into the wrong hands. So the son has to try and survive in the hostile country and figure out exactly what the info means, but he's only got himself in a country who's language he doesn't even speak.

2. A manipulative criminal who joins a secret agency with the agenda of taking down one of the biggest drug corporations in the world. It's all about how the two work together to take down the crook, whilst the agency is trying to out-manoeuvre and capture both the drug lord and the criminal and the criminal is trying to gain inside information on the agency.

3. A zombie book set in medieval times, based during the time-frame of the 'black plague'. This book would be used as a kind of extreme prequel to my other zombie book, looking in-depth at the disease and survival.

So, which of these sounds best, and which should I start writing first?

I'm a big fan of Lord of the Rings, and I'm wondering whether or not to get into the online game. Is it worth playing compared to other online games? Are the expansions worth buying? Please help.

Assassins Creed: Black Flag (when it is released), Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas or Red Dead Redemption GOTY, Dead Island Riptide (when released)

I probably have enough money to buy two of the above games, so I am going to buy one game that is already released to play while I wait for the other two to be released.

Which should I get? I love Skyrim, and I know Fallout has the same kind of open world and character intercation, but I hate futuristic stuff and mutants, as well as bland post-apocalyptic worlds. I love zombies as well, one of the reason's I have Red Dead Redemption GOTY (for Undead Nightmare) up there, and Dead Island Riptide.

Which should I get, and which will most likely give me the best experience + the longets game time.

(Game time wouldn't be an issue, apart from the fact I am rarely allowed video games and I have to milk them dry by getting the best I can out of them, so replay factor should be involved as welll)

Thank you in advance,

Sean

Which game should I get? Red Dead Redemption GOTY (For Undead Nightmare + Main Storyline), Dead Island, Dead Island Riptide (when released) or The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct? Or any other suggestions you may have.

I had my birthday recently and I gathered $165, so I'm not worried about how much the game costs as much. What I am looking for, though, is whether the game is/will be open world, have multiple weapons and the most time immersed into the game.

The book is about a group of students trying to survive the zombie apocalypse, but it isn't really either dark or serious and I don't want the common zombie movie type names: Night of the Living Dead, Dead Men, or, really, dead anything. I don't want anything to do with school or anything else. Just a name that signifies 'Surviving the Apocalypse.

Please help!

(I'm toying with: The End is Very, Very Nigh. But I would still like some other name suggestions!)

My book has about 60,000 words and I'm still not quite finished, but I was wondering if any publishing agency's would bother with a 14 year olds work?

I can see that I don't have a high chance, because they won't take me seriously because of age and so on. I was just wondering, is there any companies that would read my manuscript + what there names are?

If I don't get a publishing company to publish my book, I'm just going to self publish it on Amazon for $5.

I'm 13, and I want too be an author. This is just a random extract from my book, but does it sound professional and it my writing any good?

Martin Hersav looked at the mounds of dead, rotting bodies piled around him and on top of him. He breathed in deeply through his mouth, trying not to gag as the stench floated up to him.

He tried to establish what exactly had happened to him. All he remembered was-

He couldn’t remember anything.

He tried to recall something. He searched were he knew his childhood memories should be, but there wasn’t anything there. There wasn’t anything anywhere. He had no history of his life.

He moaned in despair and twitched slightly, aware of dead, rancid bodies above him. A belts buckle dug into his sternum and he shifted a bit more, and suddenly felt a jolt as he tumbled onto the ground, more and more dead bodies rolling on him. A large group of crows suddenly flew into the air, cawing loudly. Martin struggled, lifting the limp dead over him, and pushing them away until he was finally free and able to breathe.

Martin slowly stood and looked around him. What he saw looked like a small castle. There were burnt buildings and piles of dead bodies. The stone walls were crumbling in places and a horse skittered around the ruined gate, trying to get out of the castle it was entrapped in.

Gore-crows pecked at the mounds, and Martin was aware that he stood on a battlefield, though were was still a mystery to him.

Martin slowly rose from a crouch, and his head suddenly began to spin and his legs wobbled. After steadying himself on a spear buried in one of his companions chests.

Companion? Why did he think that? He closed his eyes and concentrated. What was he doing here? Had he been involved in the fighting?

He looked down at himself and saw dented armour and blood soaked under clothes. His left leg was badly bruised from the thigh down, and his right eye was tightly closed.

Martin looked and felt like a mess, but at least he was still alive. Unlike the other men in the kings army.

Kings Army? Yes. He thought back, straining his mind and Martin was suddenly overwhelmed by images.

A scribe reading a decree about the Kingdom wanting soldiers, a burly man presenting him with a standard sword and wooden buckler, hacking away at wooden dummies, firing an arrow, laughing around a tavern with men he would fight with later, being fitted in armour, saying goodbye to his young children and family.

Then, suddenly the images stopped as a voice rang out over the keep.

“-nothing worth looting here, Jon. We shouldn’t have come here, it gives me the creeps!”

Another voice, probably Jon’s, spoke. The voice was squeaky and high-pitched, though had an air of cunning and malice.

“Hush, child. We raid the battlefield so we don’t have to slit the men’s throat ourselves. And this is a well fortified keep. They are bound to have some riches inside.”

The other man replied, but Martin wasn’t listening. All he knew was that there had been a battle here, but for what reason he still didn’t know.

He looked up, slowly peeking at the men, until he was satisfied they had entered the keep and began to search around him for a weapon. He didn’t fancy fighting the burly young man, but the older one of the pair had a look about him that spoke of murder and assassination. He didn’t want to have to fight him.

Anyway, he wouldn’t fight them if he didn’t have too. All he wanted to do was get out of this keep and then-

And then what? He began to wonder to himself. What could he do from there?

He needed to find a way to somewhere safe and get a wise-woman to see to him, that he knew, but what else was he to do. He vaguely remembered the faintest memory of his daughter and wife, but where they were right now he didn’t no.

No, he needed to get back to his commanders. He thought about this for a second and came the the conclusion that he was a soldier in the King’s Army, and that he needed to report to his overlord.

First, though, he needed to get out of the keep and away from the rotting flesh and mutilated bodies.

He stepped onto the body beside him and with a twist pulled the spear out of the body, wiping the flesh on the spearhead on the dead man’s tunic.

Then he slowly hobbled over to the gate, glancing back every now and then to make sure the two looters were still inside the keep. He also made sure not to walk to close to the panicking horse nearby, which seemed to have an arrow buried in its side. It also had saddlebags strapped over it’s back and Martin hoped there was some food and water in them, as well as some wine to wash his wounds.

He slowly moved towards the horse, which looked at him warily. “Good boy, good boy,” Martin said, trying to coax it into coming closer. He rubbed his fingers together and the horse thought he had food, but when it realised he didn’t it leaped back with a loud neigh.

“Don’t die, mate,” I said through my rasping breath, looking down at the bloody body below me.

There was silence for some while. Dylan lay still, the wound on his shoulder pumping blood on the apartments carpet, staining it red. For a terrifying second I thought he was dead, but his chest rose and fell quickly and suddenly.

“It’s a bit late for that,” Dylan muttered, raising his head slightly to look across his wounds.

“******* hell, you’re not dying. You’re our leader. You can’t die!” I exclaimed quickly, unaware of the guttural moaning of zombies nearby.

“Everyone dies. It’s my time now.” Dylan said, and I gave him a quizzical look.

“I thought I was the philosophical one?” I said, trying to keep my voice steady, and Dylan laughed. It was a hollow sound, but the laughing assured me. It was a sound I hadn’t heard for a while.

“You always were...” Dylan paused for a second. “...I don’t want to die.” He said honestly

“No one does,” I told him, and he moved his head slightly in recognition.

The moaning was growing louder, and I knew there would be no time to run soon. As much as I hated the idea, I might have to leave Dylan to the zombies just to save myself.

Dylan noticed the look in my eyes. “Don’t leave me.” He begged, and I suddenly felt guilty. This was Dylan I was talking about- I couldn’t just leave him. How could I even think like that?

“I’ll stay.” I said, signing my fate by sitting down beside Dylan, staring into the hallway where I knew the zombies would come from. Dylan’s chest heaved, and Dylan seemed exhausted by the effort.

“James... Look after-,” The look after was cut off by a group of racking coughs, and Dylan’s eyes lolled back into his skull.

I’d experienced enough death enough over the last year to know Dylan was dead. No tears came into my eyes. I’d cried my last tear a year ago.

“Goodbye,” I told Dylan, picking up the gun that lay beside him. I started to walk out of the apartment, stepping over bodies of zombies, loading the gun as I did.

I held the heavy rifle easily in my hands, something I wouldn’t have been able to do months before. I looked around, willing to find a zombie to take some of my anger out on.

The whole plan had fallen apart. The explosives hadn’t gone off; the snipers hadn’t taken out the zombies and Dylan was dead. My plan- everything about it- had been a complete failure. I wondered if anyone was still alive in the town square- they had put their lives in my hands and I had fumbled and dropped them.

A female zombie stepped out in front of me from a doorway, hands outstretched, almost inviting the bullet into her brain. She fell in an undignified heap.

I kept walking, not caring that the bullet had probably attracted a thousand zombies. Because right now I was a man with nothing to lose.

And a man with nothing to lose was the greatest enemy of all.

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The book is about zombies, and the character that dies, Dylan, was stabbed by a zombie who still had some of it's intelligence intact. It's too hard to explain, but please answer this: it this a good death scene, or does it drag on too long or is just unrealistic?

OK, so I'm currently buying a LOT of music, and I found I really love these three bands and have brought most of there songs. So, I there's any bands / songs like these three, I'd love to here them.

These are all of them. My book has more chapters than these but I was wondering whether I should keep the names or just go to numbering them.

Chapter One: Where our courageous and good looking hero (Me) get’s detention

Chapter Two: Oh great, Zombies

Chapter Three: More Zombies (Or: For Want of a Better Name to Call a Chapter)

Chapter Four: Things that go bump in the night...

Chapter Five: ...Usually turn up shattered in the morning

Chapter Seven: Breaking Rule 17 [This is a reference to Zombieland, where rule No. 17 is 'Don't be a hero]

Chapter Eight: I find myself with friends in high places... And enemies in even higher ones

I just wrote a little prologue for my novel currently in the works. Please evaluate the following topics:

Did it have a hook? (Make you want to keep reading)

Does it show good writing?

Does it have any mistakes?

Here it is:

Everyone has different experiences in a zombie apocalypse. Some die, some end up as zombies, some of us are merely survivors in this shithole. Some of us end up as heroes, some as villains. Me? I’m still not sure. I guess you’ll have to decide for yourselves.

This is my story. The story of how I managed to keep myself alive, battle zombies, ward off an evil prophet and even manage to find love.

The whole thing started one day while I was in school. School… The word brings back memories of a better place. Which is a strange thing for any human being to say, but I honestly miss school. The only stress there was whether I would complete my assignment on time. Here? I have to worry about everything. Even now, with the worst over, I still can’t sleep without a weapon nearby and a light on.

The apocalypse changed me. I’m not the fourteen year old boy I was before. Whether those changes were for the better, I don’t know.

I’m going off topic. I’m not going to spoil my story before you even get to read it. So, here is my story- the story of a boy turned man turned soldier.

Before I start, I’d just like to leave a message to any survivors out there:

Don’t give up. No matter what you feel like doing, never give up.

P.S. Aim for the head.

For my upcoming zombie novel, which is currently in the making, I was wondering whether I should include two elements: Religion and the zombies adapting and getting smarter.

The book is about a group of kids trying to survive, but the religion and stuff is a minor-subplot (or major, depending on what you say)

It starts with a zombie making himself king, because a voice tells him to do so. Basically, he becomes the anti-Christ type of person. The zombie king then starts to lead the zombies to eradicate humanity, because the 'voice' is telling him too. There's also the false prophet- a crazy priest that sees the zombies as resurrected (he sees them as his own little Jesus') and convinces a group of church-goers who trusted themselves with God by locking themselves in a church.

The prophet and the king are pushed to destroy humanity- the King wanting to eat the meat and being pushed by the 'Voice' and the prophet thinking the 'voice' is God- when it is actually a devil like evil character.

On the other end of the scale, a boy called Jared- who spent the beginning of the book scouring the bible to find a new goal in life and suddenly gets the idea that the humans remaining alive have to save the earth, which is being re-made by the Devil. He decides to create a new religion, and calls himself the Archangel, to help get rid of the zombies and defeat the devil. He chooses a warrior to help lead his side, and when the characters in the book launch a last pitch effort against the prophet and the zombies.

In the epilogue of the book the main character reads a small journal written by Jared, and reads: The Voice cannot be silenced..

I'm currently writing a book about zombies, and I was wondering if you have any suggestions of what I could watch/read to learn more? I know a bit already, but I would just like to expand and learn a bit more?

I don't really want movies that stray from the normal zombie scenario, where a group of people band together and try to survive the apocalypse. So, more about survival and less about the zombies. If that makes sense.

Also, I'm only 13 but I'm OK with gore and stuff, but my parents won't be. So if it could be toned down just a little in the movies department- I'm OK with gore in books. Also, if there's any sex scenes and stuff... Well, that's a plus.

The story revolves around a school class and some people they meet up with trying to survive the apocalypse. It mainly focusses on the main character, James, who is a gaming nerd. With the help of his zombie crazed friend, Dylan, they try to form order and create a new place to live.

The group starts off when they are attacked in there school and have to flee to a hunting store. They set up base there and raid and eventually clear the store.

They then move back into the store and make there base (there's alot of subplots and stuff that I won't go into any great detail about) but they find the zombies becoming ORGANIZED and begging to think.

The group becomes worried when a zombie locked in a room starts trying to twist the doorknob and they realise zombies are becoming smart.

Meanwhile, there food supplies which come from the mall (due to a peace treaty + alliance between another group) aren't coming any more and the group is slowly starving. They send someone to check it out, but he doesn't come back.

The group realise that the mall group has betrayed them and are working to destroy the group at St Marcus. The group from St Marcus (James, Dylan) are then suffering from raids that destroy the schools defence, leaving them open to attacks from zombies.

The zombies have started to get a leader, meanwhile, and St Marcus is pressed between attacks from the mall and the zombies.

In a last ditch effort, St Marcus attacks the mall and they win- until the weakened defence allows the zombies inside.

The survivors of the first fight work together to fight back at the zombies, but there is too many. They have to flee, with the groups best fighters sacrificing themselves.

They drive off in a school bus but are stopped when someone stops them. James steps outside to see its a zombie wielding a knife.

James moves towards the zombie to kill it, but notices the zombie is smiling and laughing at him. James smites the zombie, but as it dies it hears the barely legible (Right word?) words "Food... Meat..."

They drive off with the group wondering what will happen next.

The last chapter is about a zombie at the aftermath of the battle for the mall. He picks up a cut out, cardboard crown and puts it on his head. He looks around at the other zombies and no longer sees them as enemies, as things wanting to eat his own food. He sees them as his army, and he sees himself as King...

So, does it sound good? There will be a second book, and I am open to suggestions about every part of the book. If you have something negative to say, please say it but don't be especially mean about my story.