1. What is the most important factor for successful zombie fiction?
2. An important factor for successful zombie fiction would be conflict whether it be between people, people and themselves, people and zombies, or people and their environment.
3. Three examples to help justify this answer would be that conflict helps drive the story. In a typical storyline this appears as: set up, story builds, climax, the final outcome. Michael Crichton's novel Disclosure happens to be a great example of the continuous use of one conflict right after another. In some cases in Crichton's work, one climax follows the other fast and sudden, leaving the reader breathless and wanting to read more.
The Walking Dead series also provides another example of multiple layers of conflict being used well and done so realistically and naturally that we do not notice them. Lori and Shane have a conflict in that Shane is in love with her. Rick and Shane have a conflict in which Shane wants to do anything it takes to survive while Rick wants to do the right thing to have something to live for, even if it risks survival. The best conflicts are between real people who simply want different things.
4. The source that helped me prove that this answer is justified was Craig DiLouie's article: Writing the Zombie Novel.
5. I plan to study the cultural anxieties of our time as of right now in order to come up with the base of a possible zombie story. By studying our cultural anxieties, I could try to figure out some metaphors that I could use to represent them within my story. I could also use the conflict technique that I had stated above to add onto my plan.
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