Ok, I've been gone for a while but I'm back now. That's usually how my writing goes as well. I may jot a scene or two down on paper, mainly in a screenplay type format, and then abandon the project for a few months until something moves me enough to fill in detail or jot down another few scenes. True, I'll probably never get anything to a publishable or shareable state this way but that's cool because it's just for me. Mainly just exercises in genres or ideas I find interesting.
That brings me to the point of this Topic - how do you revive old or tired ideas? For example - Zombies. Traditionally they're slow and inevitable, giving opportunities to examine the human psyche and how it reacts to inevitability. Great idea but the problem is that it gets stale quick. The movie 28 Days Later and the book World War Z did some great and inventive things with the genre which led me to take a look at a zombie anthology to see what the best and brightest were doing with zombie fiction. I stopped reading after the zombie sex story. The stories were either trying to hard to be shocking, the same old hat, or just had the word zombie in there somewhere. Blech.
So, how would you put a different or interesting spin on some worn out genres a la World War Z?
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