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Post by inkslinger on Nov 15, 2009 1:54:21 GMT -5
I'm working on a vampire series also, and believe me, it's different. If it doesn't sell now....it will later. I'm patient.  |
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Post by miloark on Nov 15, 2009 15:09:43 GMT -5
And an awesome story it is!
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Post by inkslinger on Nov 15, 2009 15:53:09 GMT -5
Oh you haven't seen this one...yet. But you're gonna after Nano cuz I'm gonna put it up for crits. ;D
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Post by jfranklin on Nov 15, 2009 16:43:52 GMT -5
I'm hoping that the themes of the story will make the difference. Universal themes are universal regardless of time even if there is a flood. The difference is combining the themes in something ... ahem ... original. This is really hard to do.
I am working on something in which my vamps, lycanthropes, and other monsters are justified in a way that I haven't seen or heard yet. Coming up with something fresh is not taken for granted by me. Even if the market is flooded with this genre, a well written, developed, and original story will stand out.
This is my first post here. It seems like an interesting place to learn! :-D
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Post by KMWilsher on Nov 16, 2009 16:52:23 GMT -5
I'm wondering if the excessive bombardment of teenybopper, shiny vamps caused Eric Wilson's Field of Blood to drag. Field of Blood wasn't so good, but Haunt of Jackals (#2 in the series) was awesome. Did anyone else read that series? I've sent out a Vamp short story I've written - sort of an allegory about the acceptance of His Grace - I am hoping someone will want to publish it. . .despite the glut  |
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Post by inkslinger on Nov 28, 2009 13:44:50 GMT -5
I'm not worried about the "glut" because, frankly, most of them are just bad all the way around. Good work will sell.
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Post by vilechylde on Nov 29, 2009 10:26:32 GMT -5
The problem is that everyone goes for the romanticized version of vampirism a la Brahm Stoker. If one would look back on the old folk tales, vampires were NOTHING like these fluffy shirt wearing pale guys. They were monstrous gluttons and sinners who couldn't die. They could walk in sunlight just like every other guy, they just had to nap in their coffin. They also clung to excessive sin like sex and lots of food (which is why you were a vampire if your corpse was suddenly found to be "fat", but it was just the gasses in the corpse). There was also no different between vampires and werewolves until later.
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Post by jfranklin on Dec 2, 2009 17:33:55 GMT -5
I'm not worried about the "glut" because, frankly, most of them are just bad all the way around. Good work will sell. Hear, Hear!  |
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Post by ryain on Dec 17, 2009 10:02:49 GMT -5
I am toying the idea of a vampire fantasy. I found movies like "Van Helsing" alluring and amazing but the "Twilight" saga makes me sick! Vampires are evil. In my story they are the villians and have powers. NOt like Twilight powers though. They rule a city from under the ground and are in pursuit of certain mystical objects. I've made modifications with vampire lore ( such as you have to want to be made into a vampire You have to give up your soul) and I gave them a new name. I really don't like it when a vampire is given a new name but is kept the same as every other vampire. I think I can get away with it because it is in my own world. The Vampires are only one aspect of this world. There are monsters wizards magicians spirits ... everything!
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Post by r2streu on Dec 26, 2009 11:08:04 GMT -5
I'm wondering if the excessive bombardment of teenybopper, shiny vamps caused Eric Wilson's Field of Blood to drag. Field of Blood wasn't so good, but Haunt of Jackals (#2 in the series) was awesome. Did anyone else read that series? I've sent out a Vamp short story I've written - sort of an allegory about the acceptance of His Grace - I am hoping someone will want to publish it. . .despite the glut I'm waiting on part III. I really enjoyed the first two, with some minor exceptions (actually, I posted a review at Digital Dragon back in October). I haven't read the teeny-bopper vamp stories. Emo-kids really annoy me, so a whole series of books/movies that have them all a-twitter in anticipation really isn't all that appealing to me. Also, I actually LIKE vampire stories, so there's that, too. |
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Post by r2streu on Dec 26, 2009 11:09:18 GMT -5
I am toying the idea of a vampire fantasy. I found movies like "Van Helsing" alluring and amazing but the "Twilight" saga makes me sick! Vampires are evil. In my story they are the villians and have powers. NOt like Twilight powers though. They rule a city from under the ground and are in pursuit of certain mystical objects. I've made modifications with vampire lore ( such as you have to want to be made into a vampire You have to give up your soul) and I gave them a new name. I really don't like it when a vampire is given a new name but is kept the same as every other vampire. I think I can get away with it because it is in my own world. The Vampires are only one aspect of this world. There are monsters wizards magicians spirits ... everything! Your story sounds interesting. Keep us posted. |
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Post by ryain on Dec 28, 2009 9:47:59 GMT -5
Well my story Takes place in another world. There are vampires and monsters and what not. One of the main characters is a former Mystic which means she was a witch of sorts. She holds the power of colour and light. Another character is a Mage of maps. She has the power to contol the edges of the Map ( and this was before I joined the Anomaly). All my vampires transform from a human state to a animal state. The main one is a dragon/bat mix and another is a cat/bat mix. So all very cool.
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Post by tyroctar on Mar 25, 2010 19:19:35 GMT -5
I'm loving the "Twi-Haters" lol. My newest series/saga is a speculative series about a new twist on the Nephilim idea (other origin of vampire myths, It appears to me that anything this pervasive must have had at least some template based in reality. Its like Dragons and Dinosaurs.) A writer friend of mine were lamenting the recent "Twi-hards" everywhere and I devised the need to kill Edward Cullen (and a way to protect myself from the crazed people who would want me dead.) So I had to find a fitting match for him. So I decided on human beings with angelic spirits, the powers of an angel harnessed and limited by human flesh.
My pet name for my character is the "Cullen Killer" because some of the nastiest enemies he has to tangle with are Vampires that leech out soul by sucking your blood, werewolves with nasty habits of ripping out your heart, massive Jersey Devils that devour everything, and El Chupacabras who attack your mind. All of these are grouped in a class of enemies called the Rephaim, which means "the dead ones".
This series all takes place on present day earth, and I get to have fun trying to devise some alternate history to the events we believed happened, secret societies, and a silent war that rages in the shadows. The name for the series is "The Heirs of Melchizedek."
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