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  Fails of the Undead: How I Moved Past My Own Zombies During the pandemic I started work on a very different book. I had just lost my job of almost ten years and enrolled in an online art school. I purchased myself a laptop with the intent of using it for my online classes and to do a little bit of writing.  Setting up a new computer these days means logging in to every old account you had. This also meant being faced with old projects I'd long since let sit in electronic limbo. One of those old projects I'd had was a 14 page start of a story. It had been a grand world with rules, cities, class structures, the whole nine. I decided I'd jump right in where I had left off and expand it and maybe get a book done within the summer. I had the time, after all. As it turns out, the me from 7 years ago was an ambitious guy who didn't know a lick about writing. My story was clunky and cliché. There isn't anything wrong with cliché, but this was cheesier than nachos. The bon