Creating Interesting Vampire Characters. Early Vampire Legends The origin of early vampire legends is often attributed to a poor understanding of the process of decomposition after death. Early vampire legends often referred to creatures dark-skinned, bloated, and wrapped in shrouds. Periodic vampire hysteria gripped Europe for centuries, resulting in people digging up graves and staking, beheading, or burning corpses.
By the early 19th century, however, the vampire legend had transformed into something more recognizable to modern vampire fans, culminating in Bram Stoker's creation of the iconic Dracula, pale, sophisticated, and sensual. Popular fiction continued to expand the mythos and the terrifying creature who emerged bore little resemblance to the poor remnants of earlier legend. The Creation of Vampires The exact nature of vampires varies from legend to legend. The Strengths of Vampires Vampires are commonly credited with unusual strength and speed, as well as highly developed senses. The Weaknesses of Vampires.
Fantasy Worldbuilding Resources. So, you've got tens or hundreds of pages of biology and zoology and anthropology and history and theology notes about your world. Your world is so real to you that you're dreaming about it. Now sit down and write your story, but remember to be very, very careful about how and how much of your worldbuilding you include. As a general rule, the goal with worldbuilding should be to make it invisible. Use worldbuilding to ensure that your world and its rules are consistent and realistic (at least, as realistic as fantasy novels get), because readers will notice if they are not, but treat it as the stage on which your characters play, without overwhelming readers with fascinating (to you) details that are irrelevent to the story. Readers are not going to care about how your characters believe the world was created unless it somehow affects the plot.
Anna Akhmatova. Akhmatova's Requiem was dedicated to the other women with whom she waited long hours outside the prisons of Leningrad, waiting to see their sons, husbands, fathers, brothers, lovers. "I'd like," she wrote, "to name them all by name,/But the list has been confiscated and is nowhere to be found. /I have woven a wide mantle for them/From their meager, overheard words. " "Instead of a Preface," she wrote about an incident in the lines: In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror, I spent seventeen months in the prison lines of Leningrad. Once, someone "recognized" me. Then a woman with bluish lips standing behind me, who, of course had never heard me called by name before, woke up from the stupor to which everyone had succumbed and whispered in my ear (everyone spoke in whispers there): "Can you describe this?
" And I answered: "Yes, I can. " Then something that looked like a smile passed over what had once been her face. Read the complete poem. What Is Geofiction? Geofiction is one of those wonderful hobbies that is completely free. All you need to get started is an idea. Well, at some point you might want some paper and pencils to write down the details, but even those aren't urgent. So, how do you get an idea? Well, lots of geofiction enthusiasts start with something they love. Tolkien loved languages so much he created his own, and then built an entire world around them. One of my most elaborate countries is set on a vast sea of grass that bears a totally non-coincidental resemblence to my beloved Nebraska Sandhills. Many other geofictioners start with a doodle.
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Speaking of secondary characters, although you might not have guessed from the IWtGH! Twilight: Love to Hate or Hate to Love? The nice thing about being a Twilight anti-fan is that there's lots of good company. No less a literary light than Stephen King just joined our ranks, and he's not the first. Even Pattinson and Stewart, the film's stars, seem to be along for the ride. Pattinson, who's stuck playing sex god Edward Cullen, has provided a host of especially juicy quotes, perhaps because the poor young man does not appear to have any filter whatsoever between his thoughts and his mouth.
Ironically, for someone who's openly confessed his dislike for the story, Pattinson may understand Edward better than Meyer herself does, as he demonstrates in this classic quote from an Empire Magazine article: "When you read the book," says Pattinson, looking appropriately pallid and interesting even without makeup, "it's like, 'Edward Cullen was so beautiful I creamed myself.' Later on, in an interview with E!