All My Favorite Zombies

What I like about zombie fiction is that they explore the the fine line between life and death and ask how did this happen? How will I survive?

Dead Party written Shah Wharton is my favorite zombie story. Our heroine develops an extraordinary ability: to survive. She blossoms from a mild mannered girl next door to a strong survivor who finds herself doing things she wouldn't before zombies have transformed the U.K. Darwinism is on steroids while legions of the undead roam cafes while exerting their political ambitions and teeth on residents. Recruiting all zombies now for the Dead Party.

http://wordsinsync.blogspot.com/2011/07/weekend-creation-blog-hop-dead-party.html

I Zombie I written by Jack Wallen.

A journalist named Jacob chronicles his descent into becoming a zombie while holding onto to his humanity. He awakens in Munich in a kind of morbid snow globe with falling ash that he later realized was human skin. He falls in love with a hacker named Bethany. It's on Kindle and free!

http://www.amazon.com/I-Zombie-ebook/dp/B004LGTRX0/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1319403466&sr=1-1

Goddamn Redneck Surfer Zombies by Michael Jasper

Hope springs eternal in Long Beach, North Carolina. Nude zombies mingle among locals asking for directions in this feel good story. An old fisherman wonders how did this came to be? Is it the pull of the moontides or an apocalyptic sign? Wait... Here comes a zombie dragging a coffin.

It is a short story on Kindle and free!

http://www.amazon.com/Goddamn-Redneck-Zombies-Fiction-ebook/dp/B0056BSHC6/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1319403707&sr=1-1

I enjoyed reading zombie fiction so much that I baked a Zombie cake.

Zombies also have been known to raise awareness for a good cause like the Zombie Walk in Shreveport, La.

Zombies have also promoted emergency preparedness. What would you need in an emergency?

Happy Reading!

Happy Halloween! :)

Torque to Descent (poem)

Slipping from the stiff as a board

white out that envelops her existence

the fabric of her reality unravels

spinning out of control

she makes her descent a crash landing

due to the torque on a slippery reed like surface

arpeggio legs syncopate and

fingers narrowly miss the eight-legged ballerina.

Jumping into the hypnotic pools of her Kindle

she blows the descending spider away

with her hot hurricane breath.

Fingers hit the home button

scanning the horizon for collections

hoping to see a familiar face

she selects one of her numerous zombie stories

Inside everything is black and white like a film noire

shadows populate by amorphous moans

struggling to battle fatigue

the dude drags his leg

the sweet smell of doughnuts bekon him

he sinks his teeth into the screaming pastry.

Why, where is that sound coming from?

Repulse, rachet, torque

the raspberry filled doughnut spills inky black pools on the floor.

I hope you enjoyed my spooky poem. :)

My Tiny Story

I recently submitted my tiny story at hitrecord.org which is a collaborative production company.

I have enjoyed reading many tiny stories which are shorter than flash fiction at hitrecord.org website.

Here is my tiny story:

Tiny Descent

Running over crushed velvet

remains of the rancid peach

carefully unwinding her spool

the eight legged ballerina

begins her descent.

Are We There Yet? ( a poem about writing)

Are We There Yet?

Following a map

using my hopes and dreams

as a guide

the occasional markings

of frustration splatter my windshield

like fresh puree and insect wings

in those I see potential

If I could fly...

A sonorous wind

of a teasing angel

sings choral atonality

adjusting modulation

after the storm

the calm brings clarity

the beauty I see

before me

a perfection

of chiaroscuro

dark and pearly light

clouds bathe in gold rays

cummulous covers the

bare ruby mountains

antique gold ribbon

wraps my plateau

a hush

I take it all inside

Breathe.

Write.

Breathe.

How do you feel when someone asks how's your writing?

I turn beet red then I feel inspired to chisel at my writer's block. I continue writing my first novel. Frustration is part of the writing process, but eventually it will be a scifi novel.

Happy Writing! :)

My Knitting Hobby

I hope you had a Happy Fourth of July! Someone asked me what is your hobby? I said knitting. The sweater in the photo is one I knitted a few years ago. It is made of 100% wool full of bobbles and cables which makes it in Aran style knitting and the design came from Vogue knitting magazine. I even made my own four inch cable needle out of bamboo skewer which I tapered both ends and waxed and buffed it.

People worry about the economy and ABC has been airing their "Made in America" series. I wondered what kind of a business I could do? Well, I could knit berets. Knitting uses a pair or two needles and good yarn. That's it. It is a delightful craft that uses less tools than woodworking or making stoneware clay mugs. I admire ceramics, but you need a kiln, a room to get wet and dirty, a potter's wheel and a sturdy shelf to dry or even a humid room to dry it slowly. Otherwise, ceramics is very beautiful.

I am slowly chiseling my way out of writer's block. For many months I was stuck on chapter 13. So far, I have written chapter 21. Writing my novel and composing music are my two passions. Just when I got happy I felt worried because I realize I need to write about 20 more chapters so my book can grow to about 400 pages. Oh, Lordy, Lordy.

Who are the women who knit in fiction? So far I can think of one a great amateur sleuth developed by writer Agatha Christie. Miss Marple would think about clues and supects while she knitted with yarn and a pair of knitting needles.

My Fight with Writer's Block

It has been a long time since I wrote a blog and I missed you folks. I send you virtual hugs. :)

I encountered writer's block so I chose to chisel that block one word at a time. I kept chiseling at the block till I wrote another chapter in my first novel.

Where did I go while I was away? I visited a cyber library and checked out free sheet music at the Petrucci Library. It is a huge library that contains about 95,000 scores from over 5,000 composers. There are also many recordings.

I picked up Fur Elise music sheet from The Mutopia Project and played it many times. I was surprised that my fingers remembered how to play a song that I hadn't played for twenty years! Actually I hadn't played any music till last December. I found playing with my keyboard helps soothe the numerous frustrations that had been following me.

What else had I been doing with my time? I've been trying to write a song for months and hit an impass so I decided to lighten things up by doing a techno/ piano mashup.

I hope you enjoy my music video. :)

I hope to blog more frequently. Hopefully by next weekend I will post a blog.

Happy Writing!

Pushing Snow

Last week I decided to push myself out of my comfort zone. I took a quick break from writing my novel. I decided to enter a contest even though I had only one week to compose a few bars of music, sing and make a decent video. That was serious crunch time! What was I thinking? My comfort zone includes playing a few notes on the keyboard and mixing sounds with my DAW. I never was comfortable with the activity of singing. I decided to do the video in the name of fun. I wished to film my perfomace on a lawn full of fresh snow. I was lucky. It snowed three days in a row. I shoveled so much snow that on filming day I felt light headed from all the shoveling. Okay, maybe I was giddy with the excitment of getting out of my comfort zone and singing infront of the camcorder. I ventured outside. It was 24 F and windy! I wore my downfilled parka, ear muffs, long pants, cashmere sweater and my face was freezing! After one take I ran inside. My senses were numb from the cold. I took a look at the video and I couldn't stop giggling. My pants jiggled so much from the breeze that it looked as if my legs were made of rubber and I could dance!

I won't post the video till the contest is over.

My next post will be about Steampunk artists and how they inspire us to write Scifi, Steampunk or fantasy genre. I will also include writing prompts.

Happy Writing!