The decaying flesh slips off the still-solid skeleton underneath until your down to the very bone.
#ZOMBIE SOUP ACADEMY SKIN#
The skin peals back like the casing of a sausage to reveal rotted sinew and tissue now softer than mud. You try to push it away find only pulpy, decayed flesh. Imagine a rotted corpse had just lunged at you. The zombie really makes a music all its own.
Their terrible hunger evokes painful sounding moans as they hiss and snap at their meal: you.
#ZOMBIE SOUP ACADEMY FULL#
The groan of the undead, the sound of them dragging their body parts down the street behind them, the spitty hiss they make as their decayed teeth, yellowed and full of pulpy bits of bloody flesh, snap as they try to bite you, all make up the beautiful chorus that is the zombie apocalypse. Image a scent so putrid you can taste it. Imagine the wash of stomach acid that will burn up your esophagus and into your mouth when you see one of my stinking zombies. Imagine that sharp salty and metallic taste of blood in your mouth. My favorite taste description is of the bloody saliva my zombies drool all over everything. Okay, no one is going to go around and taste a zombie, but you should get the reader’s taste buds thinking. Our characters should do that too, but describing the scents of rancid, pussy sores, molding clothing, and maggot-filled chunks of bloody flesh can bring your zombies to…life? Zombies should smell so bad you can taste it. On The Walking Dead, characters can grimace and cover their mouths. When writing zombies, you will get your readers into the scene more completely if you can help them envision what it would be like face-to-face with breath that smells like the “soup” at the bottom of a trash can. From the harrowing bouquet of the rotted corpse to the whiff of an entire horde of the decaying undead, zombies stink. I spent a lot of time considering how a zombie might smell. Just how many ways are there to describe a zombie? In the end, I found the best was to go back to basics. Writing five books in a zombie series pushed me to constantly innovate and look for new ways to write scary creatures. The fey, vampires, and other supernatural creatures and powers always existed in our world, we just didn’t know it. Once mankind is mostly dead, the survivors learn that we weren’t as alone as we thought we were. The Harvesting series begins with an outbreak that leads to a zombie apocalypse. Over the summer, I completed the fifth and final book in The Harvesting Series. Without fail, I always get in the mood to write something spooky this time of year. It’s October, my favorite month of the year.
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