I Need an Antagonist

JTheGreat · Feb 20, 2010

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Zombie movies sell. Zombie games sell. Zombie books sell, but have to be cleverer than their media cousins, who can get away with basic, overused zombie memes. That said, as long as an author broaches such worn but convenient archetypes with tact and determination, and takes time to develop the characters up and beyond horror/drama & zombie fodder, the genre can be done well. Same with vampires, who've been around longer than zombies, and yet there are enough innovative vampire books out there to garner the audience they do.

Movies can get away with more mindless, easily consumable crap than books. Ofcourse nothing's new, everything's been done. But some concepts have been done so much that the bar is set high, requiring more originality than others. Keeping that in mind in general is a good practice, especially when working in very competitive genres.

That said I love a good zombie movie & videogame, but I've never read a zombie book, and it would require a lot of said innovation. Not that I never would.

Only my opinion tho.
(Yes, I realize this is an inproportionate response, lol. philosophical/writing exercise)

@J: i wouldn't mind helping you brainstorm if you expand on your plot a bit more
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I'm on a zombie-free diet, thank you.

My plot's kind of weird and too complex to explain in a forum post. Any specific questions?

jeremiah22 · Feb 21, 2010

the antagonist is counts old assistant in an attempt to perfect his formula an experiment went horribly wrong scarring and mutilating the assistant. seeking revenge the former assistant discovers he has become immune to the effects of time travel.

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