It's like if you wrote a story that takes place in a hurricane and it's just about how the hurricane's really bad and does a lot of damage to stuff and also someone died from the hurricane.
That's just the news. The zombies are there as an existential threat, but more than that as a catalyst for the end of the world, and a reversion to a more directly brutal social order, where people are being executed because it's the preferred alternative to sharing food with them. That's where the good shit is. People senselessly carrying over grudges from the old world, or using the collapse of the status quo as an excuse to run free as monsters. It's about the people who are just stuck in that shit. Regular people, without elite military training, because if they're just hyper-competent and can deal with this new world like they were born for it it's a boring-ass story with no emotional stakes.
Also I do like your story idea, i envision a guy giving the big reveal of who did it at the precise moment a zombie breaks in through the window and he gets dragged out and torn to pieces and everyone has to run but they're also piecing together the clues that guy just laid out and figuring out who they can trust
yeah zombies are boring vilains on their own strength. They are only good at creating a background of constant danger to highten the rest of the story
as an example of a story I would love to read. What if a classic murder mystery but they can't leave or get help because there are zombies outside
It's like if you wrote a story that takes place in a hurricane and it's just about how the hurricane's really bad and does a lot of damage to stuff and also someone died from the hurricane.
That's just the news. The zombies are there as an existential threat, but more than that as a catalyst for the end of the world, and a reversion to a more directly brutal social order, where people are being executed because it's the preferred alternative to sharing food with them. That's where the good shit is. People senselessly carrying over grudges from the old world, or using the collapse of the status quo as an excuse to run free as monsters. It's about the people who are just stuck in that shit. Regular people, without elite military training, because if they're just hyper-competent and can deal with this new world like they were born for it it's a boring-ass story with no emotional stakes.
Also I do like your story idea, i envision a guy giving the big reveal of who did it at the precise moment a zombie breaks in through the window and he gets dragged out and torn to pieces and everyone has to run but they're also piecing together the clues that guy just laid out and figuring out who they can trust