I really need information for my book Can you help me pl

[Blackrook]

I've reached my limit with vampires. Twilight's stupid portrayal of "vegetarian" vampires who don't attack humans was more than I could take.

I would not be surpised to see a backlash against vampires, like the backlash against disco that destroyed an entire genre of music instantly.

I could even write the song:

Vampires suck!

Suck, suck, suck!

Vampires suck!

Suck, suck, suck!

 

[Shingetsu]

Vampires are extremely common in urban fantasy books. Each author gives the race their own quirks. The only thing they have in common these days is that they have fangs and usually drink some sort of blood. Some go in the sun fine, some don't.

There isn't any "research" really needed on vampires since they are fiction. Everyone knows the classic abilities of vampires. It's just your take on them that matters.

Vampires are getting allot of popularity lately because of Stephenie Meyer and True Blood. Though most urban fantasy readers have been overloaded with vampires and werewolves and probably getting pretty tired of them. But it is easier for authors to use already made up races that people know well than create their own completely.

 

[MattyK]

I could even write the song:

Vampires suck!

Suck, suck, suck!

Vampires suck!

Suck, suck, suck!

Being a Vamp - By The Beegees (Sort of)
Well you could tell by the way he used his teeth,
He's a vampire man, that's no relief.
Sucking blood and killing dudes,
Going out at night to find his food.

And it's not alright, it's not good,
He's really gonna suck your blood.
Bleed you dry, and poke your eye,
He's really not a loving guy!

Suck, suck, suck, suck, going to die, going to die!
You're not, you're not, staying alive, staying alive!

 

[The Pelagic Argosy]

ROFL! That's good!

 

[Ursa major]

I have to agree with TPA, MattyK: that's an excellent skit.

 

[Dimentio]

So i started writing a book about vampires like along time ago and i picked it up again recently and i found i needed a little bit more information about vampires, so i started researching and i can't find much of anything.
Does anyone know anything about vampires? (Not Stephenie Meyers vampires please i already know about them)

Any information is gladly welcomed! thank you!

What kind of vampires are you writing about?

 

[Yahzi]

A coven might work like a cult, a terrorist cell, organized crime, or an Athenian democracy

Anyway, Teresa is right. Go watch Nosferatu and then make up your own rules! I mean, after death-by-glittering, you simply cannot do wrong.

 

[MistingWolf]

I personally favor how a fledgling vampire [newly-vampire-made] was portrayed in the Mortal Instruments series. It does give a little insight into the social structure, but as the others have said, nothing is totally set in stone when it comes to vampires. In this version, vampirism [and lycanthropy] are diseases left behind in humans by trans-dimensional demons, each of which hated the other, and thus the reason why vampires despise werewolves - it's in their blood. So yeah, have fun with this. Make up your own thing with the vampires!

 

[Interference]

The only thing I'd add (if I am actually adding it and not repeating it ) is that vampire lore, like religious lore and pixi lore and every other kind of lore, is ancient and comes to us, initially, by word of mouth. The means of destroying a vampire were presumably arrived at after a period of guided trial and error, by which I mean that in the earliest days I've no doubt the type of wood used was important and the observed reaction to sunlight inspired a thought.

Equally, the habits of the vampire may have been observed most prominently in a single, singular vampire and extrapolated across the entire race. Perhaps one particularly evil vampire flinched and quailed when presented with a silver crucifix, but what it that individual was momentarily reminded of the religion in which he had once been brought up and the faith he once adhered to and the lost power of Jesus' love so that he had to run away and cry? Maybe it wouldn't work twice.

Add to that various mis-interpretations of situations and events that made it seem as though a man turned into a wolf or a bat or a cloud of mist and suddenly the vampire seems immensely powerful and magical.

Strip away the myth, might be my suggestion, and then rebuild it using your own sense of logic and probability. Find the origin of your vampire and you will begin to find for yourself how it lives, what it needs and how it can or can't be destroyed.

 

[ctg]

The only thing I'd add (if I am actually adding it and not repeating it ) is that vampire lore, like religious lore and pixi lore and every other kind of lore, is ancient and comes to us, initially, by word of mouth.

You mean like showing the other side of the coin. A human becomes infected by a vampire and the virus turns it to be one of the night or darkness races. Then in a way, the reader starts to learn about mirror world where they worship their own "J" etc. ?

Sounds something what Gaiman would write.

 

[Interference]

I don't think I quite said that, ctg, but it's a bang-on idea you have, there. Make the reader discover and live the vampire life.