John
This is my tenth entry in the A-Z Blogging Challenge for April. Today we look at the letter J-John.
Tears welled up in my eyes, but I stopped them cold. You can't get too sentimental about the old days when things were normal. You get sentimental, you go soft, and then you give up. Then little girl zombies come in the night and eat your guts out.
These are the thoughts of my other main character, John, from Sometimes We Ran. At this point in his life, it is eight months after a zombie apocalypse has nearly wiped out humanity.
Like Claire, I had a clear picture of John in my mind as well. He was going to be middle-aged, strong, armed, and crafty. Running from the living and the dead had turned him into a survival machine with a good shooting hand. He has kept his wits about him as the world around him has fallen apart.
John would have a past. He would be a regular guy (engineer) who married late in life to a beautiful woman. He would lose his wife to the apocalypse, and carry the guilt of losing her on the road. When we meet him in Sometimes We Ran, he is at the end of his rope. John's travels on the road are becoming a death march. Meeting Claire helps him go on. They strike up a friendship.
A few people have asked me if there is some of me in John. We're both middle-aged and regular guys. I would like to think so. I think writers always put a little of themselves in their characters. In an emergency situation, I hope I could be as focused as John.
Tears welled up in my eyes, but I stopped them cold. You can't get too sentimental about the old days when things were normal. You get sentimental, you go soft, and then you give up. Then little girl zombies come in the night and eat your guts out.
These are the thoughts of my other main character, John, from Sometimes We Ran. At this point in his life, it is eight months after a zombie apocalypse has nearly wiped out humanity.
Like Claire, I had a clear picture of John in my mind as well. He was going to be middle-aged, strong, armed, and crafty. Running from the living and the dead had turned him into a survival machine with a good shooting hand. He has kept his wits about him as the world around him has fallen apart.
John would have a past. He would be a regular guy (engineer) who married late in life to a beautiful woman. He would lose his wife to the apocalypse, and carry the guilt of losing her on the road. When we meet him in Sometimes We Ran, he is at the end of his rope. John's travels on the road are becoming a death march. Meeting Claire helps him go on. They strike up a friendship.
A few people have asked me if there is some of me in John. We're both middle-aged and regular guys. I would like to think so. I think writers always put a little of themselves in their characters. In an emergency situation, I hope I could be as focused as John.
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