I managed to hammer out about 3,000 words today. I also added in some text that I removed earlier, so my word total jumped to about 33,000.
I’ve spent a lot of time today exploring the world of Cairo, IL, as it might appear after the zombies have been unleashed upon the world. The place has a water treatment plant inside the flood levees. It has access to the two biggest rivers in America. The only thing it doesn’t have on site, as best I can tell from Google Maps and my own ramblings through there, is a power plant. However, there is–I think– a power generating station across the river in nearby Kentucky.
Power is always a big key. It reminds me of Lucifer’s Hammer. A big part of the third act of that book concerned power. If you haven’t read it, please consider it. It is a masterpiece of end-of-world literature, and as a developing writer myself I can appreciate how far I have to go to build a world as rich and detailed as that one. Coincidentally, that book also has a small mention of Boy Scouts. My own books rely heavily on the Boy Scouts as one of the pillars of civilization that survives even in the chaos of the Zombie Apocalypse. I truly believe that if you got any random group of Boy Scout families together they would have better odds of survival than the general population. I know there was a recent movie about Boy Scouts and zombies, though I have yet to catch up to it.
That’s all for this update. I’m pleased where this is going.
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