mmmm, blood.
Right, so. NaNoWriMo isn't done, though it ends tonight at midnight, and I'm already thinking about my next project. Someone, stop me-I don't have the time to start another novel project, no matter how interesting I think it could be.
Then again, what's interesting about vampires these days?
A bit of explanation: Last time I was at the bookstore, I looked at the myriad of vampire-themed novels on the YA shelf and thought, "Why can't I find any stories about vampires that are dark, sexual, violent? How come it's all about the twinkling and the fluff?" No offense to Stephenie Meyer (okay, I lied-offense to Stephenie Meyer), but I've never thought of vampires as twinkly or beautiful or any of that, unless of course you mean the kind of beauty that you see in a wild creature hunting.
And so, as so many do, I'm considering writing what I want to read-vampirism as a disease (though I realize I won't have been the first), an infected race living subterranean in a post-apocalyptic metropolis, the battle between vampires and humans for no other reason than because the vampires want to eat the humans and the humans don't like that so much. I have no idea what the moral would be, or who the point-of-view characters would be, or how it would end-I just want to write vampires with semi-superhuman strength and a powerful bloodlust.
It's probably a bad idea, all things considered. I don't do sci-fi well, and have never tried my hand at fantasy. Magic realism eludes me for the most part and I don't have the best grasp on descriptive language.
That doesn't mean I don't want to try.
But maybe I should finish The Alleluia Paradox first? Ignoring, of course, that that project is unfinishable in the sense that the roleplay that spawned it is still ongoing. We'll see.
Then again, what's interesting about vampires these days?
A bit of explanation: Last time I was at the bookstore, I looked at the myriad of vampire-themed novels on the YA shelf and thought, "Why can't I find any stories about vampires that are dark, sexual, violent? How come it's all about the twinkling and the fluff?" No offense to Stephenie Meyer (okay, I lied-offense to Stephenie Meyer), but I've never thought of vampires as twinkly or beautiful or any of that, unless of course you mean the kind of beauty that you see in a wild creature hunting.
And so, as so many do, I'm considering writing what I want to read-vampirism as a disease (though I realize I won't have been the first), an infected race living subterranean in a post-apocalyptic metropolis, the battle between vampires and humans for no other reason than because the vampires want to eat the humans and the humans don't like that so much. I have no idea what the moral would be, or who the point-of-view characters would be, or how it would end-I just want to write vampires with semi-superhuman strength and a powerful bloodlust.
It's probably a bad idea, all things considered. I don't do sci-fi well, and have never tried my hand at fantasy. Magic realism eludes me for the most part and I don't have the best grasp on descriptive language.
That doesn't mean I don't want to try.
But maybe I should finish The Alleluia Paradox first? Ignoring, of course, that that project is unfinishable in the sense that the roleplay that spawned it is still ongoing. We'll see.