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valarltd

My ninth novel

Mar 11, 2011 14:46

I have contracted for a minimum of 65,000 words of vampires, to be delivered by Sept 1. Yes, there is an advance involved ( Read more... )

vampires, writing

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valarltd March 11 2011, 22:54:22 UTC

The council is a bunch of Undying who got together around the Bronze Age and started hunting vampires for revenge.

They hate vampires, because they hate being immortal. The goal is not to create more, but train the unfortunates who are.

Undyings are only created during the incubation period, not after full vamping. Most vampires don't make more. And most eat all the kill, so there is no live incubation period.

So, you have to make a new vampire about every month. And getting someone to do it just so he can impregnate a bunch of women and be killed? I don't see many takers for the job.

Or when they did try it, it ended badly. Remember, Undying tend psychotic or sociopathic, or both.

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valarltd March 12 2011, 03:02:02 UTC

I haven't decided if the drugs work ( ... )

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anonymous March 12 2011, 14:30:45 UTC

The D-Man Checks In: Ahhhh... One of my favorite topics, and thus you just HAD to know that you'd be hearing from -me- the moment I took note of it ( ... )

anonymous March 12 2011, 14:32:59 UTC

Continued ( ... )

valarltd March 12 2011, 18:10:42 UTC

Please don't lecture, I am MORE than familiar with folkloric vampires. This is my universe, and I playing with a variation on the theme ( ... )

anonymous March 16 2011, 04:41:33 UTC

The D-Man Checks Back: Not so much a lecture as a core-dump of personal knowledge/belief and ideas. Didn't figure you'd take to all of it. I'm just hoping to avoid yet another Buffy The Vampire Slayer uni' here--only this time written by you, whom I know can do better--wherein the vamps pretty much wander around blissfully unaware that they are being hunted & slaughtered, and even the vamps who -are- aware of the threat take no credible measures to protect themselves or their lairs, or to utilize modern technology and/or weaponry to deal with The Slayer. Cripes, if a comman gang-banger can get his hands on a semi-automatic or even a fully automatic weapon to use against the police... why can't the vampires do so to use against The Slayer ( ... )

tannenwynn March 12 2011, 15:45:06 UTC

I kind of dig it. Whether you go virus or parasite (as the parasite idea is kind of interesting, too), it's something I haven't seen explored very far (or terribly well) before. I like a lot of the suggestions that D-man gave, but I would keep the older = more decay aspect. And the way you've set up the Undying.

tannenwynn March 12 2011, 15:49:47 UTC

Also, curse you... Now I want to write in this world... *sigh* Not like I don't have a half-dozen other things I NEED to write for the game company, fiction and otherwise...

sophiaserpentia March 14 2011, 17:03:06 UTC

This is the most interesting take I've seen on the whole vampires thing in a long time.