Beaten To A Pulp Is Moving
Hey everybody,
I’m finally moving to my own server,
so “Beaten To A Pulp” is becoming
Go check it out.
So if you want to see how Oasis turns out, that will be the place to go…
Speaking of which, hopefully tomorrow the next chapter will be up.
Blackmask is back!
I used to love going to blackmask.com and downloading all sort of great stuff to read. Then they had that legal tiff with Conde Nast, and went away. Well, now blackmask is back.
New name, same management.
Now its called munseys.com and it’s had a facelift. Then only difference in the content is that the copyrighted stuff (The Shadow and Doc Savage stories…) has been removed.
Oasis: Chapter 10
Chapter 10: Infection At The Door
I honestly don’t remember much about the meeting that followed.
All I know is that there was a lot of yelling, swearing, and self-righteous pontificating by Andy and his cronies.
If we had known a little more about the infected, we would have kept our voices down, moved the meeting upstairs, or at least have closed the large garage style rolling door to the front entrance. Fortunatley, someone had the foresight to re-lock the gate after I had come in.
Andy had just finished giving the Read the rest of this entry »
Oasis: Chapter 9
“The Last Argument With Andy”
The infected Carlton clamped his arms around Frankie in a gruesome bear hug and sunk his teeth into Frankie’s shoulder.
Frankie screamed. He struggled against Carlton’s grasp, but could not break free.
Carlton bit him again, this time closer to the neck.
Frankie thrashed with renewed vigor, but it was to no avail. Carlton seemed to have unnatural strength.
I was shocked. Witnessing the brutality of the infected completely blew my mind. How is it that someone in so much pain can suddenly become a superhuman monster? I glanced back toward Zeke, only to find Read the rest of this entry »
Writing Dialogue – Part 5
Here’s the fifth part in Randy Ingermanson’s series on dialog:
If you like this info, check out his novel writing materials.
In the last four issues of this e=zine, I talked about
why dialogue is not like “real conversation”, about
what makes good dialogue, about the importance of using
dialogue tags, and about why Point of View is essential
to great dialogue. I made the point repeatedly that
dialogue is war.Let’s remember that there are hot wars and there are
cold wars. You don’t need bombs and bazookas to have a
war. Sometimes war is a subtle thing, with spies and
tea-time diplomacy and softly muted threats on the Red
Line to Moscow. Read the rest of this entry »
