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Post by luna610 on Jun 23, 2010 21:38:31 GMT -6
Ok so I know that nobodys talked in this thread...but oh wells. Ladies, this story is epic. I never thought I would get into a story like this, but I absolutely love it. But y'all already know that The reason why I'm bringing it up again is because I was looking at it posted in DS and I love all the features Especially the part where you show all the survivors with SFTU lyrics. Really really good stuff. Thank you for writing this brilliant story! Can't wait to read more.
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Post by Rose on Jun 23, 2010 21:41:41 GMT -6
Oooh I didn't know you hadn't seen the SFTU site. Julie's so talented with html, which I'm like impaired with LOL. Thanks Sel! With the characters, when we originally titled it, we thought it'd be neat to assign lyrics to characters. It actually helped us develop them a bit, though a couple were a bit of a stretch.
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Post by luna610 on Jun 23, 2010 21:49:27 GMT -6
I thought it came out really well...and I can see how it helped with character development. I really liked nicks and brian's
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Post by Rose on Jun 23, 2010 21:53:20 GMT -6
I'm replying on behalf of both of us cause Julie's writing it as we speak LOL. Thanks . I love Brian's, it's so tragic and fitting. He's my fave character in the fic with AJ.
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Post by luna610 on Jun 23, 2010 21:58:41 GMT -6
I'm replying on behalf of both of us cause Julie's writing it as we speak LOL. Thanks . I love Brian's, it's so tragic and fitting. He's my fave character in the fic with AJ. Ditto Rose. Both with major transformations.
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Post by Rose on Jun 23, 2010 22:02:24 GMT -6
I'm replying on behalf of both of us cause Julie's writing it as we speak LOL. Thanks . I love Brian's, it's so tragic and fitting. He's my fave character in the fic with AJ. Ditto Rose. Both with major transformations. That, and with AJ, his outlook is so different from everybody else's, that it's a fun challenge. Brian, I love the fact he's struggling with everything he believed. Just keeps it interesting, even as a writer.
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Post by Julie on Jun 23, 2010 22:02:57 GMT -6
Thanks Sel! I'm almost done with Chapter 60; hopefully I can update it tomorrow (which may mean in a few hours LOL) or definitely on Friday.
I'm glad you like the site too! That was fun to make LOL. I love writing this story; I've always been a horror fan but never really written much true horror before this. We're combining two of our greatest loves, Backstreet Boys and zombies LOL.
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Post by luna610 on Jun 23, 2010 22:05:30 GMT -6
Awesome, Julie! So excited about the update! And I was reading ya'lls chat about when y'all came up with the idea. That's some funny stuff.
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Post by Julie on Jun 23, 2010 22:15:49 GMT -6
LOL it's interesting to have documentation of where exactly an idea came from and how it developed. Cause when it's your own story, usually it just sorta happens in your head and you don't know where it came from. But to go back and read how it came together and then see what it actually turned out like 2 years later is pretty cool.
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Post by Rose on Jun 23, 2010 22:20:16 GMT -6
LMAO Sel, that's pretty much how our ideas happen. One of us gets really random and it snowballs from there.
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Post by Carter-Orange on Jun 24, 2010 0:11:41 GMT -6
I absolutely love this story too. I love the characters, especially AJ and just really love all the detail that goes into it and the way it's actually written, with one person's POV per chapter.
Can't wait for more!
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Post by Julie on Jun 24, 2010 1:21:07 GMT -6
Thanks Steph! I think we were kinda worried in the beginning that it would be too hard for the readers to keep track of, with ten different characters and all of them having their own chapters, but that's why we took so much time to set it up, so you could get to know them all a little bit before the world fell apart LOL. That was a risk too, cause it did take a long time to get to the good stuff. But hopefully it's worth it in the long run. We've tried to make it seem "realistic" to make up for the fact that it's a zombie story LOL. Thanks so much for your reviews and everything; they mean a lot to us!
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Post by Carter-Orange on Jun 24, 2010 2:57:04 GMT -6
That's what I love about the story, it really does seem realistic and I can imagine that's how a bunch of survivors would react.
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Post by Rose on Jun 24, 2010 17:30:00 GMT -6
Thank you Steph!
Basically what Julie said. One of our biggest worries was turning people off by how long it took to get to the zombies. But at the same time, how else could you really know the characters and who they were before 4/15/12, and show how they changed because of that? It was a toss up of what way we wanted to go. I'm just happy you guys have been enjoying it so much.
And Julie is SO right about how realistic we've tried to keep it, since it's zombies lol. You guys would be surprised just how much research went just into zombies themselves for this fic. If you guys have ever read the "Zombie Survival Guide" by Max Brooks, that's like our bible for this story lol.
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Post by Julie on Jun 24, 2010 19:29:35 GMT -6
^ *poke* Where are you? I'm ready to update this thing!
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