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Baseball Bats
This is my second entry for the Blogging from A to Z April 2014 challenge. Today we look at the letter B-Baseball Bat
When I was writing Sometimes We Ran, I wanted to give my female main character, Claire, a signature weapon to dispatch the bad guy zombies. It would be her go-to way to carve through a crowd of walking corpses.
Claire is small in stature, and she needed something that anyone could use. I thought of a knife, but that brought the zombies in too close. A small gun was a possibility, but my other main character used a firearm and I wanted something different. I tossed out machetes and other assorted blades because I couldn't picture Claire swinging a sword, and it had been done: See Walking Dead and other zombie movies.
My mind drifted. I started looking around the room. My eyes fell on a wooden baseball bat in the corner. Claire had her weapon.
I changed it to aluminum. Claire has now been wielding the mighty baseball bat in two novels.
Come to think of it, a baseball bat would be a very effective zombie deterrent. It's simple to use, you can probably find a bat everywhere you look, and it makes you look like a total zombie-killing badass.:) It also gives Claire a neat character trait. I have to confess, I don't know if a baseball bat would cave in a skull. I don't know if someone of Claire's diminutive size could even use a bat effectively. Still, I think it works in the story and no one has called me on it yet.:)
So if a real zombie apocalypse happens, the first thing I'm doing is finding the nearest sporting goods store. I'm adding a bat to my arsenal. Claire would approve.:)
When I was writing Sometimes We Ran, I wanted to give my female main character, Claire, a signature weapon to dispatch the bad guy zombies. It would be her go-to way to carve through a crowd of walking corpses.
Claire is small in stature, and she needed something that anyone could use. I thought of a knife, but that brought the zombies in too close. A small gun was a possibility, but my other main character used a firearm and I wanted something different. I tossed out machetes and other assorted blades because I couldn't picture Claire swinging a sword, and it had been done: See Walking Dead and other zombie movies.
My mind drifted. I started looking around the room. My eyes fell on a wooden baseball bat in the corner. Claire had her weapon.
I changed it to aluminum. Claire has now been wielding the mighty baseball bat in two novels.
Come to think of it, a baseball bat would be a very effective zombie deterrent. It's simple to use, you can probably find a bat everywhere you look, and it makes you look like a total zombie-killing badass.:) It also gives Claire a neat character trait. I have to confess, I don't know if a baseball bat would cave in a skull. I don't know if someone of Claire's diminutive size could even use a bat effectively. Still, I think it works in the story and no one has called me on it yet.:)
So if a real zombie apocalypse happens, the first thing I'm doing is finding the nearest sporting goods store. I'm adding a bat to my arsenal. Claire would approve.:)
