Little Thoughts

Datum objave: May 11, 2011 12:38:44 PM

I have been reading the thread on KindleBoards, The Vampire revolution...will it ever end?

There’s a lot of debate about the Twilight and its influence on vampire genre. I haven’t read the Twilight or seen the movies; I do remember when the craziness over it begun, how worried I was that the idea that I was developing for a year was going to waste, but then my friends told me about the contents and I felt such relief.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have anything against Twilight and similar fairytales, people love fairytales, I love fairytales, we need them to brighten our days, to make life little brighter; and also the Twilight saga had a good influence on teenagers’ reading habits.

The reason why I hadn’t read it’s not because I found soft-hearted-emo-sparkling vampires unappealing, but because I didn’t want it to influence the story in the making, and then later, it had become hard for me to read anything. I have become such a picky and quickly bored reader; all I read nowadays are short stories, non-fiction books about writing, blogs, and stories of authors who have me as their beta-reader (and whose writing I adore).  

Beside the Bram Stoker’s Dracula I haven’t read a lot of books about vampires, I tried to read Ann Rice’s Merrick, but have discovered that her style of writing isn’t exactly my thing (I really dislike first POV and long narratives). My love for vampires was actually developed through Buffy, the vampire slaughter (I’m so shallow J), horror movies, and movies like Blade, Underground, ... I love Blade, love, love it -- the Blade trilogy was actually what inspired the Red Moon’s Reflection the most. I wanted to use the traditional vampires, the bloodthirsty creatures of the night that can’t hold back their thirst, and at the same time I wanted to have a people like Blade, who has the same powers and is in most cases even stronger than normal vampires, but without (some of) the traditional vampires’ weakness. I created Bloodeaters, the species who are not dead as vampires are and who are stronger than vampires; actually they unintentionally created vampires  and they look down on them. And somehow everything escalated from there. Suddenly I had three clans, the political intrigues, the vampire-pest control management, the mad Bloodeater scientist, ...,the Dumes, Damon, and Tina.

So, yeah, I believe that the Vampire revolution will never end (I’m writing a trilogy about them, it better not), but I do hope that the vampire genre would evolve, that writers in this genre would widen its borders and that its subgenres would become more diverse.