Okay, so I don't know if I'm feeling especially creative at the moment or if I'm just putting out crap, but I've written three short stories in the last four days. They need editing, yes, but they're not too bad.
So, I wrote a story about the vampire lord Erik Vayne, of House Vayne, one of the major houses of the British vampire nation, but it really turned out to be kind of pedantic. This one maybe not so much. The first one is about a vampire in Chicago, named Kean McCormick, the second about a different kind of vampire, a sort of hybrid I guess, named Doran Patrick, also in Chicago.
The trouble with vampire fiction is there is soooooo much out there already. I am not looking to remake the wheel, but it has to be something that is not just the same old vampire stuff.
In my opinion, though, vampires should be scary. The number of vampires that retain anything like human morals is very very very small. I also think that there should be some specificity in the nature of vampire. If they're undead, they're physically dead. They don't procreate, they don't breath, they're scary and evil things. If they're not undead, then, what exactly are they? Is it a virus that causes vampirism? Is it venom like in Twilight? Or is it more of an alchemical/magical/spiritual thing?
Anyways, hopefully someone will be interested. Hopefully the writing doesn't suck too bad. Hopefully I'll have enough money together soon so that I can get onto one of the online writing workshops where people can critique each others work.
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