• Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 months ago

    I have never been happier to ask someone to expand on a comment…no sarcasm. Quick question how do you know so much about zombies? And also ever thought about writing a movie because just this comment alone I would watch the shit out of.

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      2 months ago

      I’m a movie geek, and love zombie movies. Same with books, and d&d. So I’ve always been fascinated with the genre. Plus, I’m insatiably curious about things like voodoo and the belief in magic that humans have, so when I discovered that the zombie fiction had a basis in reality, I kinda went crazy reading everything I could about it.

      I actually have written books. The fantasy series that I never finished had a lot of necromancy and the undead. The series I’m currently working on is about a necromancer lol. But I’m pretty mid-tier as a writer, so nothing ever sold well. I’ve got some fans, but we’re talking maybe a few dozen people lol. With that level of popularity, nobody would make a movie I scripted.

      Most of my fans are accidental tbh. My old fantasy books for the trilogy I never finished got out via soulseek, and some of the people pulling an entire library actually read an unknown author, and some of those liked it enough to email me to ask about the third.

      Seriously, even after the rewrite of those two books, they’re kinda mid. Great ideas, meh execution. My more recent stuff is better, but still not the kind of thing that can break through the sheer numbers of people cranking out fiction these days.

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        2 months ago

        Yea well all authors had written books that no one believed in. And now the publishers kick them selves for not buying it or not promoting it. Keep that faith mate I am sure that at sometime you will be at the top of the NYT bestsellers.