Here are the first words I wrote about Lizzie Goodin-Guerrero. I found them in a notebook about a year after I’d started seriously writing “Zombie Zoo” (the original working title that I knew I would never use for the novel. They were written in my Cursprint long hand, long before I got serious about writing the novel. Even this scene was at least six months after I realized that if I created a young female character encompassing the traits, styles, personality and histories of many of my stud...