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Geek Culture / The Infected (A story i'm writing)

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Slayer267
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Posted: 28th Dec 2010 02:57
I am currently writing a story! Its currently about a 12 year old kid who loses his parents in a zombie Apocalypse...

Anyway you can check it out here!

Link - http://fpschelp.webs.com/apps/forums/topics/show/3966606-the-infected-preview-story-

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PAGAN_old
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Posted: 28th Dec 2010 10:24
cool story bro

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Toasty Fresh
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Posted: 28th Dec 2010 12:25
Skimmed over it a little, finding a twelve-year-old survivor of a nuclear apocalypse an odd choice for a protagonist. He'd have to be one tough-nut twelve-year-old to survive that. But it seems pretty interesting.
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Posted: 28th Dec 2010 21:08
I read through it all, here's some tips:
-Avoid ending half your sentences with '...'
-Avoid repeating the same word so often, especially in the same sentence. Ex:
"I was sent to find the missing Alpha Team, who has been missing for the last year or so... "
"I took shelter in a nearby bomb shelter..."
-The part where the 'Tank' comes in is very confusing. It's not clear until the end that the Tank is actually a nickname for some type of mutant zombie, making the section seem like they are fighting an actual tank that has four arms for some reason.

Benjamin
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Posted: 28th Dec 2010 21:24
Quote: "Tank"


Wait, this is basically L4D fan fiction?

Indicium
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Posted: 28th Dec 2010 21:39
Been playing Fallout 3 for a few days, so I found this a little interesting. I know Toasty thinks it's an odd choice to have such a young protagonist, but it's unique, I like it. However, I think your writing structure needs a little bit of work. The start seems very rushed, especially when he comes out of the shelter, and finds his parents dying. It needs more detail in my opinion.

As for the story, the idea is sound, but theres a few things that need to be taken into account. The chances of survival after a nuclear fallout are very small, the amount of radiation in the atmosphere would cause cancerous growth and ultimately death. It should be some time before he leaves the shelter.

I don't know how these mutants would come from the actual detonation of the bomb, a four armed creature could only come into existence through birth, due to mutated genes.

I think you should work on it a little more, but it does look very promising.

Good luck.

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Posted: 28th Dec 2010 22:02
First change the age to say 15-16 thats really low for a survivor, I think a twelve year old could never stand with the struggles the main character goes through. Its not a very realistic age of a survivor.

Second, like said above try to vary the word use in your text.

Third, The problem I have occoured through your text is that you do not describe the settings good enough, heres an example.

"He said in a faint voice, stuttering and struggling to speak. I began to cry with tears rolling down my cheeks.
It was hot... Very hot.My mom woke up and said with a half burnt face..."

First thing about this little piece is that "IT WAS HOT... VERY HOT" it dosent describe the setting enough for the reader to really visualize the surroundings, its barely enough to visualise the setting.

And another thing about that little piece is that if the main character sees his mom and dad under a pile of rubble or whatever, is it most important for you to describe that the character thinks its hot, or the fear within him when entering a burning collapsing house, or the fact that he sees his parents half dead lying under a flaming piece of un-moveable rubble?!

And I am kind of wondering over this line.

"That's when I saw-- I don't know what I saw..."

Try to describe the zombie a bit here, Its to give the reader a clue about whats happening(its more exiting that way). That line you have thrown in is to cheap, you immediately understand that its not human, you have to build up the tension before the climax.



"We stopped at the U.S Army National Guard Military base. I was happy to see a building that is not in rubble. I walked inside and saw many people with weapons.
-Is he bitten? A man in a white robe asks..."

I'd like to see this part re-written its been two days, I think its to early to kill the tension about zombies, keeping the reader puzzeled would be a better thing in this case.

You are still in the prolouge we are supposed to get to know the character here, its to early to give the main problem into the text. Which you kind of reveals in this part.

I skimmed though, but take this things into consideration.

Hope it helps!

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Posted: 28th Dec 2010 23:33
I don't have time to read this yet, but I see some folk have offered some critique, but if you're looking for critique, I can do my best to offer some constructive criticism when I can.

But current thoughts: protagonist's age, 12 is doable, but there's s chance it'd be a 12 year old reading it, but even then, if you can find a way that makes it realistic, why not? Of douse he won't be a survival wizard, but there can be other reasons why he survIves and how he maintains survIval, with time he could learn the ropes enough to get by...or there's a good reason why he's so good, the fullmetal alchemist takes in some of his father's genius and was able to learn alchemy well at a young age and studied heavily, the sidekick from kickass,, her dad basically trained her into a dangerous weapon...just two examples of where people who are 'too young' to do what they do, do what they do. It's still not that realistic, but it adds to the fantasy and if done right it's plausible for fiction.

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Posted: 28th Dec 2010 23:53
Gave up reading when I noticed the bad grammar, oh and also the 12 year old who seems to be part of the army.

Just sounds like a FPSC story. Is that what it is?

Slayer267
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Posted: 29th Dec 2010 03:25
No, it is not an fpsc story! I hope to find some of the mastakes and take your requests! But if you want you can use it for one

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Posted: 29th Dec 2010 14:00
One thing that I learned when I started writing was that one skill you can't live without is to define what you write. There's no use in writing just "a small room", but you need to define the atmosphere, the visuals and anything else that activate all of the readers senses. This is very important in order to conjure a feeling in the reader.

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Posted: 2nd Jan 2011 21:55
Quote: "oh and also the 12 year old who seems to be part of the army"

hmm i actually think i would have been in army as 12 if there would've been a nuclear holocaust lol

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Posted: 2nd Jan 2011 22:39
I don't have time to read it right now but I love the whole post-apocalypse genre. I'm not too big a fan of zombies as they tend to be an easy option for this sort of setting: "New Instant Apocalypse! (just add zombies)"


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