OK, so I know I’m cheating a little here by combining V and
W together, but after rushing my daughter to the doctors this week with
breathing difficulties, which is about as much stress and anguish as I can
handle, I’m not feeling too bad about
missing one evening.
I’m really thinking about the whole Vampire v Werewolf
scenario and just wondering if there is really any room left for any new
variants on either theme. There are so
many books and/or movies that come to mind, Buffy/Angel, Twilight, Underworld,
True Blood, Vampire Diaries, to name but a few.
Is this an area that has been done to death, as it were?
I very much enjoy a good vampire and werewolf story, and
many are adapted for different audiences.
The Twilight saga is very definitely for the teen market whereas True
Blood is a bit more grown up (at least the TV show is!).
At some point I think I’d be interested in writing something
along these lines, I’ll have to get creative though and put an even newer spin
on it. Either that or go back to the
classics. Bram Stoker’s Dracula is still
the best.
I hope your daughter is feeling better. About werewolves and vampires, I love the vampiric lore but we need to go back to the basics; let vampires and werewolves live on their own corners of the world without mixing, and making them scary again. This has become such common theme that I doubt there can be any warm welcome for new books for a while, but you never know, great stories have alway a place.
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She is much better thanks. I agree about going back to basics, the old school way of doing things. Maybe all this hype is just offering the time to develop and hone something new, ready to be offered when it all dies down.
DeleteOf course there's room for more, but it just needs to be original only--the same. :)
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It does make it into an interesting challenge, and certainly something I've been pondering or a while. I might leave it ticking away for a little while and see what comes up.
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