The Traveling Vampire Show-Richard Laymon

[foulwitchqueen]

The Traveling Vampire Show by Richard Laymon.

Winner of the 2000 Stoker Award.

It's a hot, lazy summer for three childhood friends. They are on the cusp of adulthood. Dwight, Rusty, and Slim  are sweet sixteen in a small town in 1963. Their summer days are spent swimming and mowing lawns; their nights spent at drive-ins watching the double

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[queen_of_11seas]

i need to remember how to do lj cuts

[batarang]

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:)

[heathencorp]

Ugh, I hate poorly-controlled writing. You're the god-- make it work.

~:P

[foulwitchqueen]

If your characters are real to you, then you don't have to control your writing. That's a big problem in genre writing, authors are too busy trying to get the story to conform to a genre that they forget to let their characters have a life of their own.

That's why I hate it when someone says I'm a fantasy writer. I'm not. I just let my characters do what they do. Some of them just happen to be unconventional, but they are not unrealistic. (I don't think.)

Unless of course you were talking about my writing...in that case I am so not the god of book reviews...

[heathencorp]

No, I was talking about the book you were reviewing-- I just really have a huge pet peeve about poorly structured books. I mean, there are people who are paid to make sure a book works, and there are so many people who want to get books published, and yet the ones that make it are shoddy? No thanks.

And I didn't mean control the characters so much as I meant self-control. A writer has a skill, so they should treat it like a skill and try to do the best they can, you know?

Anyway. I hope I didn't accidentally offend you by being unclear?

~:)

[queen_of_11seas]

no offense. I know what you mean but not the writing not controlling himself. I felt all the talk about Rusty's "sexual awakenings" was gratuitous. He just wanted to see how many times he could talk about a 16 year old boys erection before people started calling him a perv.