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In response to my other thread,

while I was locked up, I have been hand writing a zombie book, in white college paper, I am on page 143 which I estimate (with revisions and proper grammar) will translate to roughly 210 pages and I am not even near done, 10/10 inmates said they loved it and would buy it when I publish it

Of course when I type it up, I will send a link on the site for it, I really honestly think yall will enjoy it a lot, especially if you like the details of my survival plans, it goes deep into details

I am titling it currently "They Came: The Unsuspected Apocalypse"

It starts in El Paso, TX with the lead character Paul who is oblivious to the outbreak until it comes to him while he is driving home one day. It has several characters in it, everyone who read it said they had a really good visualization of it

I know its a bit premature, but I'm legibility excited about this, its something else I am putting my heart into

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PUT AN AUSTRALIAN GUY IN IT! :D

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Holy crapola for real? Man i will totally buy it fuck it ill buy 20. Maybe if you have a book signing ill come. But youll never know who i am........

Is there any references to us in it? Did you base a character of me? You shouldn't have. I can translate the accent if you want.

Do we get a sneak preview of a page or two??


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Australian guy would be a comedy relief guy (not a bad idea) lol

And ya man, Its going down. And believe it or not, I am incorporating people from this site in it, but not in a direct way, more of ideas then actual characters

I think I am going to push for 400pgs+ tho, I still have a lot of work to do

and fyi, they are Infected who are fast but not super men, and I have so far thrown in like 4 major twist that I know you'll enjoy. Not to mention while I was in, I studied how viruses work and stuff, thus making the infected to my own definition rather than a hollywood set up

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Brooklyn accents?


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A crazy Brit fighting zeds ofF with kitchen utencils an golf clubs?

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YAY! ^_^
and make sure they sell them in australia otherwise ill have to get a friend to put one in the mail and then you gotta pay all them postage fees and thingies -_-

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DUDE BADASS IDEA!! if we do need to send you a book we shall each donate a stamp from our country

One USA flag stamp
One canadian flag stamp
One UK flag stamp
One NZ flag stamp
One Australian flag stamp

International unity FTW!!!!!!!!


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LOL! ^_^
but how is everyone gonna put their stamps on it?

wait, is it legal to put a stamp in the mail?

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fuck.

STFU!!!!

but im pretty sure we have flag stamps for all teh nations of the world.


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Our stamps are just the queens head.
All of them.

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we got the queens head on ALL our money.
yes, the queen of ENGLAND.
stupid queen -_-

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I bet a justin-ish armory will make an appearence.

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we got the queens head on ALL our money.
yes, the queen of ENGLAND.
stupid queen -_-

She is the queen of all of Britain, poor Scotland and Wales getting left out all the time.
She is also the commonwealth chuck Norris, so deal with it, Canada, Gibraltar,India etc have to live with it, so do you.

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I can't get anywhere from your link :(

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HOLY CRAP! SHE OWNS AUSTRALIA?! WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN?!

also, is that the guy from High Noon?
i like that movie.

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She only owns it in a chuck Norris ass kicking sense.
She doesn't even do anything in Britain, the only purpose she really serves is making money from tourists(usually from the states)
who are all like "wow, they have so much history in England-land, everything is so old. "

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england-land?

Ok no one is that stupid


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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH.
this is why we get to play in the Commonwealth Games yeah?
hey are those beef-eater guys really not allowed to move?

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Poseidon wrote:
england-land?

Ok no one is that stupid


I know, it's from a movie a saw ages ago.

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Dude! i will totally buy this book!!

p.s you need to have that one badass guy whos pissed off cuase he hasnt hasd a cigerete in a while then just grabs a chainsaw and runs outisde lol

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Not when they're on ceremonial guard, but they're not like human statues.
YouTube the chaning of the guard, they all march about like pricks.

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you should totally put, "This book is dedicated to my best friend Joe, A.K.A. (MiddleSchoolSurviver)"

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MiddleSchoolSurviver wrote:
you should totally put, "This book is dedicated to my best friend Joe, A.K.A. (MiddleSchoolSurviver)"

We all know that that honor goes to Poseidon.

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Nah ill be to embarassed.

plus if no one knows who i am theyll find me and ill be scared.

I shouldnt be here. im suppose to be in my bubble

I SAID TO MUCH


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NO, PUT DEDICATIONS TO ALL OF US ON THE LAST PAGE!! ^_^
and i like those fuzzy black hats the beefeaters wear. it looks so comfy.

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Yeah, with thanks to
*list of all active/regular users*

the beefeater hats aren't even British, they're made of Canadian bears.

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on the dedication put the username and discription of each person. Except for me then people will be like why arent you in the dedication and ill be like look harder and theyll be like i did but ill be like youre doing it wrong and theyll be like no im not and ill be like yeah you are and theyll be like no im not nd ill be like yeah you are and theyll be like no im not nd ill be like yeah you are and theyll be like no im not nd ill be like yeah you are and theyll be like no im not nd ill be like yeah you are and theyll be like no im not nd ill be like yeah you are and theyll be like no im not then ill win


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Guys, stop telling Ludwig what to do. If he wants our input he'll ask for it.
I would very much like to read that book when you publish it. Hell, I'm a bit of a grammar Nazi, if you want me to I'll gladly give it a once over with the Ol' red pen before you send it off for publishing.

So, you're saying I've fallen upon a puppet?

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were just messing with him cause its a badass idea.

man when i go buy it imma totally tell the clerk that i know the author and try to get a discount. I *used to* try that every time i go buy a book and it never works.

But one thing i hate is a grammar nazi. One time my teacher showed us a copy of the NY times that had the word "telephone" Misspeled as "telephonee" And she went off for an hour telling how unprofessional that was. THEY PRINT DOZENS OF PAGES FOR DOZENS OF YEARS LET IT GO!

But hey ludwig, Good luck, work hard and have fun and ill be waiting anxiously for its arrival


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I'm not THAT kind of grammar Nazi, I just know all the rules. Now, whether or not I choose to obey them is a different matter entirely.

So, you're saying I've fallen upon a puppet?

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what a find ironic is that 75% of the time the grammar nazi has crappy grammar himself.


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The most ironic thing is when they tell you that your "grammer" is wrong.

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Thank you Kuma, I will def send ya a copy for the dreaded "red pen" lol, quality > laziness! this bitch is gunna take a min just to type up what I already have tho, standby

I got ideas out the ass, but one thing I am in need of is a cover page, like a drawing that could be turned into like a graphic cover (if that makes sense)

Not to mention to increase the visualization of the book, I'm adding in like little maps to help visualize the areas that Paul goes threw (like a road that I am trying to describe) at certain points of the book that I felt needed some clarity. I haven't seen that done before, so I'm trying to innovate this, that will take some effort.

and if all else fails, it can always drop down to "O look! Pictures!! C0000lz!!"

cool sells. lol

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if you add pictures i will rip out the pages with the pics and only buy them, cause thats how i roll.

Do they still have cartographers? i mean nowadays whats the point? Almost everywhere is mapped and the places that arrent can just be google earthed.

Yo man i got an idea!!!!

Google earth, Fantasy edition, maps of every fictional place on earth, that would be sweet.

But then we would need a cartographer.

Which the earth is in lack of.

That could be a problem.

Maybe i could find a cartographer school. But then i would have to do all the work.

But yeah a map would help but only if (IMO) The maps are more localized dont just make a big ol map at the beginning of the whole US with a line through it. Its to confusing and it kind of spoils some parts of the book.


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Hmmm. Joe's pretty good at photoshop and graphic design, you could always hit him up for samples.
By the way, my poor "grammer" on here is a combination of calculated effort and laziness.

So, you're saying I've fallen upon a puppet?

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I dont mind misspelled aords or grammar at all. Hell it would be freaking badass if we all speaked 1337.

But yeah joe was my 2nd 1st choice. my 1st choice you ask? We all get to draw about 3-5 percent of the cover and maps? It'll be a collage! What? No? D:


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My poor grammar is a combination of stupidity and jackassness.
Mostly the latter.

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Dude, that's great! (Well, maube not the being locked up part.)

I can't wait to start reading, even if it was half as good as your zombie plans (which are generally awesome).

Capn774- more badass than going back in time and kissing your own mother at the "Enchantment Under the Sea" dance... wait a second, that's not badass! That's just plain weird!

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i suck at making book covers officially, but on the otherhand iam good at cheesy sayings:
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cheesy sayings are always good lol

This will take me a few months I am thinking,

One thing I DO need help with (besides art work) is the publishing part. I dont know to much about it, any clues?

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you take it to a publisher, and if they think its good enough, theyll put it through an editor, and stick a cover on it, and sell it.
theyve got their own artists i think, you dont have to get anyone from here to do it if they dont want to.

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I'd find somthing mystirous and stupid... works for every editor.

Twilight....
Editer: hmmm looks like it can sell emo sissy crap thats what every girl likes a sensitive vegan vampre with a volvo.

No mans land.....

Editer: done "garbage"

Land of Z

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you take it to a publisher, and if they think its good enough, theyll put it through an editor, and stick a cover on it, and sell it.
theyve got their own artists i think, you dont have to get anyone from here to do it if they dont want to.

The editors here tend to require a goat sacrifice so yeah...


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Then you got to go through the cathu- I mean the critics as well.

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