Well, moment of truth, kids. It's the third of May, getting kind of late, and I haven't written any words today. BUT, it's the third of May and I haven't recorded my Patreon address for the month yet. Kind of leaning toward doing that instead.
Ah well. I ran, did push-ups, and sit-ups today. And worked a pretty full day too. I finished editing "Dying Is Easy" today as well. Not gonna lie, I think it would be okay to record my address and call that good.
Sit-ups Today: 111
Sit-ups In May: 311
I still ended up writing a bit. During my run, I had two ideas for the same scene in the story--one in which Layla talks to her mother about how her sister isn't the same (and is not believed), and one where she talks to another student whose boyfriend went on the same trip as her now-changed sister to see if he's changed too (and is not believed).
I chose the latter, and then thought, "Well, it's only natural that later in the story, the student--who I named Maysie--approaches Layla and tells her the boyfriend has indeed changed." So I wrote that scene as well, despite them being a chapter or two separate. To my surprise, it was plenty of words*, especially since I absolutely wasn't going to write anything tonight.
Push-ups Today: 69
Push-ups In May: 284
And here's one last thing: I tend to stay up EXTREMELY late at least one day a week (or ten days), usually recording or editing or falling down a Wikipedia rabbit hole. And that's fine--with how much exercise I do, I find myself less tired after fewer hours of sleep--except that I end up paying for it a day or two later. If I stay up till four on a Tuesday night, on Wednesday or Thursday, I become a bit of a zombie** and end up taking a nap whether I want to or not.
And then, when it came time to put an image on today's post, I did a Google Search for "Romero Zombie," and was surprised to see mostly gross Photoshopped images of George A. Romero as a lumbering zombie, rather than one of the undead from his movies.
Lower down, there they were, but which one would I pick? Maybe the little girl from NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (that's on the posters), maybe Bub from DAY OF THE DEAD, maybe the Cemetery Zombie from NOTLD that prompts Johnny to say, "They're coming for you . . . look! There's one of them now!" Or maybe the zombie nurse from DAWN OF THE DEAD, who always struck me as memorable.
There are a bunch of zombies in that movie, but there are two or three that show up multiple times, and get close-ups for some reason (including both Flyboy and Roger, and the super fat one with no shirt on that does a header into one of the mall's fountains toward the end). But as soon as I saw the Zombie Hari Krishna, that's the one I chose. It's just so weird that the filmmakers picked one of them to be among the living dead, and it amused me and my friends, who didn't know what a Hari Krishna even was, every time we watched it.
Words Today: 729
Words In May: 1417
*Not a ton, no--at this point, anything over 999 qualifies as a ton.
**Romero Zombie, not one of these shitty 28 DAYS LATER/Zack Snyder marathon running ones.
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