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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:00 PM
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I'm thinking about writing a vampire novel.
The main character will be a vampire. And he's handsome, but he's all conflicted and shit about being a vampire. He has to kill to "live", but he doesn't want to.

Anyway, he falls in love with a living female. She knows something isn't quite right, but she can't put any of her body parts on it.

So there's a conflict of sorts, and then a romantic but slightly tragic climax.

What do you think?
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:00 PM
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1. I think you'll make millions
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:04 PM
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8. How could it not?
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:01 PM
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2. WHY HAS NO ONE THOUGHT OF THIS BEFORE?!
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:02 PM
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4. I KNOW!!!!!
Apparently there ARE some new things under the sun. (Well, not vampires, I suppose, but you know what I mean.)
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:03 PM
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5. Instead of like, dying, or bursting into flames, the sun should make your vampires...wait for it...
SPARKLE!
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:05 PM
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9. NIce one, freeper.
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:14 PM
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20. Dude...
Ouch.
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:16 PM
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23. Ha. Now you have to go back and change your survey answers.
:bounce:
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:23 PM
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31. D. T. M.
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:01 PM
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3. I think you should cast Robert Pattinson for the part.
He'll rock the audience.

Oh, and Peter Facinelli as his vampire daddy. Bring in millions.
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:03 PM
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6. No fucking way.
Wasn't he the guy that played Anakin? No way.
NO. WAY.

Besides, this movie talk is rather premature. Let's just write this best seller first. Movie and action figures come later.
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:04 PM
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7. No, he didn't play Anakin, freeper.
God, must I do everything?

:eyes:

Think Big. Think Big Screen, you small time hoser.
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:07 PM
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12. Look, I'm an artist.
I'm not in it for the movies. It's all about the story. I'm like the Kurt Vonnegut of literature.

After I sell my (inevitable) first million copies, then you can come in and pursue the whole movie thing.
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:10 PM
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15. Slaugherhouse Five Vonnegut or Deadeye Dick Vonnegut?
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:13 PM
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19. Breakfast of Champions Vonnegut.
That was the one with the vampires, right?
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:06 PM
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10. Make it a chick flick.
That might sell.
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:12 PM
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17. Yeah, maybe I'll do that.
But I'm totally having stuff blow up too, 'cause I need to be representing the peeps in my hood.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:06 PM
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11. And it's about bloody time!
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:08 PM
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13. Hey, that's a pretty good working title!
Hmmmm...
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Symarip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:10 PM
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14. Shiny skin.
He needs shiny skin and shit. You should make him stare at teenaged girls and like, make him look like he's deep. Even though he's totally a vampire and would eat them. That would be totally wikked kewliez.
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:36 PM
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34. Interesting...
And maybe he could ride a surf board. If he keeps riding it, he could avoid daylight. But he probably should watch out for Galactus too, just to be safe.
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jdp349 Donating Member (372 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 04:34 PM
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45. The Shiny skin thing
when I saw the movie was so lame. I expected when he went into the sun he'd look like the terrible evil undead creature he really was. Instead he has sparkly skin ...

Twilight's ruined vampires for ever. Way to destroy a thousand year old mythological icon Stephanie Meyer.

Oh well at least I still have my beloved zombies.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:10 PM
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16. Do it.
I bet you will win BabyM's heart forever (or TeenM's heart or maybe both). What the hell if its good enough you'll have the whole Midlo clan adoring you! Wouldn't that rock? :rofl:
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:15 PM
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21. You make us sound less like a family and more like a gang.
:rofl:
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:17 PM
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24. I calls em as I sees them...
:P
Gang Midlo..hmmmmm.....
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:17 PM
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25. Yeah, I'm not sure about that.
In the story, I was thinking of having a harem of topless female vampires from "Titsylvania." I don't know that the Midlo clan would approve of that exactly. Of course, I could be wrong.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:20 PM
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29. Wait let me guess...
Titsylvania is a town in the upper midwest say...Close to the great lakes *cough* Minnesota *cough*.....Tell me something, will the head of this harem have an irrational interest in numbers? :rofl:
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:13 PM
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18. No one has written a novel about a gay vampire
Now that would rock.
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:15 PM
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22. Brothers of the Night
http://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Night-Gay-Vampire-Stories/dp/1573440256

My vampire(s) will be cooler, though.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:20 PM
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28. Make sure he can dance
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:21 PM
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30. I read a story about Jesus being a gay vampire who killed himself because blood wasn't kosher.
:rofl:
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:40 PM
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35. LOL!
I must read that. Could you maybe post a link at freerepublic?
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:19 PM
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26. Sounds like Coppola's "Bram Stoker's 'Dracula.'" nt
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:25 PM
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32. Except my vampire will NOT have freaky hair!
Look how embarrassed Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula is. It's just sad.
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ismnotwasm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:20 PM
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27. Dude
Just think of the movie that'll make. Fan-fucking-tastic.
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:27 PM
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33. Again, people, the movie is secondary.
It's the story that matters. Does Jack Chick write his tracts with the inevitable movie in mind? No! Such is the artistry of Dr. Strange.
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ismnotwasm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 02:45 PM
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36. *sigh*, ok I guess
But, but I, I want to see a movie with a hot vampire and a hot chick with prolonged sexual tension because they can't do it and all kinds of fascinating plot complications that I might not exactly understand but I know they're like, the best, you know? True love, real, actual factual true love. Deep man, really, really deep. Man, Wes CRAVEN could produce it. *sigh*

However, I will sacrifice my desire the real nature of true art. I bow to art, as I should
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 03:41 PM
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39. Sweet Zombie Mindfuck! Happy Halloween would make an awesome movie in IMAX.
You brilliant bastard. Has anyone optioned Chick Tracts for the big screen? We may be sitting on a gold mine here, people.
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jdp349 Donating Member (372 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 03:19 PM
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37. I'll buy the movie rights for $20 right now.
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 03:57 PM
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40. I'll be needing six figures.
At least.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 03:21 PM
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38. It'll never play in Peoria.
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 03:59 PM
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41. There's too many of that genre around now. I suggest something else.
Say like a ghost who inhabits another person's body and wants to go find his wife only to find out she never loved him while he was alive so now he has to make her fall in love with him in another's person's body. Or then again...her best friend who always had a thing for the ex who died. Make it complicated. Throw in some terrorists or spaceships.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 04:10 PM
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42. Have him ride a horse. No one ever went broke selling vampires and horses to teenage girls
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 07:57 PM
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47. OMG! A vampire horse!
He'll ride a horse, who is ALSO a vampire! This is so going to win the Academy award for best novel ever.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 04:17 PM
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43. This is a plot point by plot point direct rip off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 08:22 PM
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49. Oh yeah?
The vampire's name is Barney Collins. Does that sound like a Buffy ripoff?
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 04:31 PM
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44. I think you need some experience with the genre first.
Go online, do a google search for 'bad vampire fanfiction'.

If you run out of your own ideas, just plagiarize from what you find there.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 04:46 PM
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46. Vampire novels are passé. Use the same basic story, but
make the main character a handsome fish.
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-06-09 08:10 PM
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48. That's a terrible idea
but I'd still read it before anything by Ann Rice. :eyes:
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