Creative Writing

[Evan3]

I just decided to add a creative writing minor to my course load (yeah I am a crazy double major/minor now). In any case, I truly am going to write that story we cdame up with awhile about vampires vs. zombies in the old west. We will see, I hope it makes me famous.

In any case, I am writing something else first, but this is next on my list, and I need some ideas of what sort of things I could do with vampires, zombies, werewolves, that would actually make you scared.

Also, I think the last line, I will have the lead vampire, after everything is gone and done, watch the beginning of the sunset and say "It seems like it will be such a beautiful day. What are you going to do with it?" What do you think of that?

[Brother Ragnarok]

Blast you, after the current script we're working on a friend and I were going to do something with the vampires zombies werewolves old west thing too.  Hm...perhaps we should collaborate?

Brother R

[Fearless Freep]

Or beat him to the copyright office

[jmc]

I don't know how it is where you go to school, but if it's anything like my college they probably won't let you write any kind of genre type stuff for your creative writing classes.   They prefer the kind of stuff you see in those $10 literary digests that you see at Barnes and Noble.

[raj]

How about making the president a werewolf.  That could be done as a comedy, action story, or  horror.

[Fearless Freep]

Well there was Dukakis...I never quite trusted those eyebrows...

[yaddo42]

.....or the ending of "Werewolf In Washington".

If your school doesn't go for genre writing, tell them you want to follow in the footsteps of Neal Stephenson, David Foster Wallace, Don Delillo, and Kurt Vonnegut. All are "literary" writers who use pop culture and genre elements and themes in their writing.What's with these creative writing departments? Even Graham Greene wrote thrillers he refered to as "entertainments" besides his serious novels. Joyce Carol Oates cranks out unremarkable mysteries under pseudonyms inbetween her highbrow works.

Tying in werewolves and lycanthropy with the shamanism and summoning of animal spirits of Native American culture could be interesting. Plus you could bend or rewrite the "rules" of werewolf stories.

The vampires could be attached to an upper crust European hunting expedition like the one in "Shalako", the image of hunters using silver-tipped .500 Nitro Express double rifles or a brace of Holland & Holland shotguns to hunt werewolves for sport might be a neat twist. Vampires would need something more exciting to hunt than regular animals as well as something they could hunt at night. Another idea might involve exiled nobles seeking a rumored cure for vampirism from the Indians.

Zombies, if you wanted to use them, could be a fun explanation of what happened to the vanished Anasazi tribe.

[dean]

yeah i did a creative writing course last semester and though they want 'classy' stuff, you'd be surprised at some of the stuff you can get away with.  our lecturer/tutor really liked some of the supernatural-type pieces that had a really fairytale feel to it.  one was about a trip on a bus and for some reason the airconditioner started venting poisonous gas and everyone around the main character dies violently except for the main character, who watches it all in a fairly subdued manner, and then calmy walks off the bus as if nothing happened.  it was pretty well done.  

though most creative writing people may frown on an out and out vampire/zombie piece, it could be interesting to put it in a normal context, as if it is everyday life stuff, and just cut out the cheese factor that sorta goes with the territory

btw love that last line, but is the vamp guy saying this at sunup or sunset? sunup would be better in my opinion, but its a cool line nevertheless!
go for it!

:D

[The Burgomaster]

How about a movie where a guy goes to the moon and becomes a werewolf. But he never turns back into a human because the moon is always full if you're ON the moon. (Yes, I know it sounds stupid, but if someone would finance a movie like HOWARD THE DUCK, then my idea certainly has a chance).

[Evan3]

Awesome, thanks for your imput, I have not yet decided wheather or not to write this in novel or screenwritten form, but I feel another good twists on vampire would be

*To allow them to track humans, not by night vision, but by being able to hear a human's pulse, which would make them at a huge disadvantage against a zombie/werewolf villian.

* To have them come across one of the Protestant travelling revivalists of the time. How interesting would that be to have a showman/preacher vs. a group of vamps?

*Lastly, the main vampire's name will be Isaac or Jacob, which do you like more??

[dean]

i sense a martial artist priest coming on!

long live the priest in Braindead!!

"I kick ass for the lord!" classic line.

I like that vampire sensing pulses type thing.  Is this going to be one vampire stuck in the middle of a Zombie/Werewolf killing spree? [ie, in a town taken over by Zombies or whathaveyou, one Vampire tries to get out, whilst also in competition to eat the remaining surviving humans.]

Personally I like the name Caleb for that sort of thing, but then again Buffy sort of already did that so I'll go with Jacob.

Sounds good either way [novel or screenplay] so good luck for it

[JohnL]

>*Lastly, the main vampire's name will be Isaac or Jacob, which do you like
>more??

I vote for Jacob also. Isaac reminds me of Children of the Corn.

[raj]

I've got a nephew named Jacob.  He'd be more of a werewolf than vampire, but it's nice to see vampires with good biblical names.

[Evan3]

raj wrote:

> I've got a nephew named Jacob.  He'd be more of a werewolf than
> vampire, but it's nice to see vampires with good biblical
> names.



Hahaha, someone gmentioned the connotation I was going for, you win the prize, a free copy when and if it is published