Update on "Protein"

I've mentioned my western-zombie, "Protein", several times before on this blog. I wanted to give everyone a little heads on where the story is headed.

So the era of the story has moved from a futuristic, post-apocalyptic world to post-Civil War. Kodie and Terry will be traveling across the United States, heading west on a special adventure.

As much I enjoyed writing a modern day western-with zombies- I found that my audience couldn't wrap their minds around the loss of technology and an entire society reverting to a "Wild West" sort of mindset. I grew very tired of having to dodge the "Why don't they drive in a car?" or "Where's all the buildings?" questions.

So I took my story back a few hundred years to make all those pesky quibblers shut the fuck up. This also gives me the excuse to have Lincoln make a guest appearance in my story. I've always wanted to do that. (Just thinking about it makes me feel like I'm time traveling with the Doctor and we're battling an alien conspiracy to over run the world with zombies. Hehe)

I've got my hands full with college and a metric shit-ton of editing for "Protein" but I refuse to believe this is a set back. Instead, this is a flowering promise of creative revival.

(Yep, that last line was bullshit.)