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I maintain that they're certainly not rare, but not overdone. Overdone implies that the market is saturated and that there is no room for new works. At least, that's the way it seems to me. I've been writing them for six years, I'm sticking to them, thankyou very much.
That's a good point. My definition of overdone is more like there could be a whole section of a library devoted to them and if you look at any original fiction posting site online, you'll find many.
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Same. Some authors just play off the dark, angsty, immortal bit and don't really put much more work into it other than that, or concentrate on couples and Rice-style plots. If you move away from that though, I think you can manage quite a bit of character development and some very interesting vampires and consequently stories. Vampires are ex-humans. How far they've distanced themselves from humans is a combination of age and personality and it makes for some very interesting metamorphoses of character.
Well put. I'm of the opinion that people go by a one-fits-all mentality with almost all of the vampiric characters... There are different quirks, yes, but they seem to all have the same opinions of humans and human society. (I'm speaking in terms of a single author's characters having the same mentality, not vampiric characters as a whole.) I try to keep mine following a bit of a humanistic pattern. (Psychology isn't my strong point though, so eh...)
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Louis is of French origin, I believe, as is Armand's Theatre, and Lestat, of course. Armand is from Russia, I believe, and Marius and the rest I doubt are French. I have a French vampire, however, he came to the colonies at the age of two about 250 years ago so he hardly speaks with an accent. I'll admit to having read the books and owning them, and in the same breath I'll very proudly assert that my stories are nothing like hers.
Ah, thank you. I kinda figured that they couldn't all be French, but you never know. :3 (Also, I wasn't trying to say that Anne Rice's books are bad, if you thought that. I had this discussion with a friend once and she thought I was dissing on Anne Rice. Didn't mean to
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I think half the challenge of writing a good vampire book that's set in the modern world is making things realistic. I've spent six years working on one series, one world and new things come to light all of the time. New factions and smaller groups working together to keep the warring factions of the vampires and slayer's war out of public view. Figuring out where vampires make their money from and how they gather information and what codes of honor are in place .. I sat down yesterday with my best friend and co-author to write out the universal rules on vampire conduct. About half of them have been ditched since the slayers turned on the vampires but nonetheless they frame where things come from and are a level of complexity I never would have pictured when I first started writing.
I think anything that can require that much thought and layers upon layers of complexity added over years to make something more realistic can hardly be considered overdone. Overdone things are easy to write because they have a set pattern that you can follow without thinking overmuch. In my opinion, anyways. Carbon copies of the same old plotline are overdone. Vampires as a whole is still a genrae I believe has plenty of room for expansion. My aim is to attempt to redeem it, at least a little by proving that point. Whether I succeed or not I'm not certain but surely someone else will if I fail.
Very nice. Six years on a story... I applaude you for your stick-to-it-ive-ness. v_v I get distracted easily. I'm sure with that much thought behind it, yours are probably original and interesting characters. ^^ And the redeemption of the vampire genre is a wonderful thought for all of us vampire writers :3
There are some good vampire stories out there. Most unpublished ones XD My recent ones probably don't count as vampire stories (not in the traditional sense) since vampire is treated like any other adjective, like brunette or blue eyed... It's only mentioned in passing. (Made my old beta reader mad X3) But hopefully vampiric literature will make a come back, or at least develope another stereotype or two XD
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