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Old 10-19-2009, 01:25 PM   #84
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Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac View Post
An Esquire article by Stephen Marche suggests vampires are a way for straight women to (metaphorically) have sex with gay men.
An emphatic no. It's about the female. if we're talking the vampire romance genre.

You write a vampire romantic hero in the same vein* as a ruthless mogul hero. He's a bad, bad boy who would do who-knows-what to you behind closed doors. He wants to have power over you but you. must. resist. until he somehow redeems himself. However, the male vampire isn't the only one who redeems himself. Through resistance to what she knows is not good for her, the heroine becomes a better person.

The reader knows these two are going to end up together but it can't be before both of them have grown/changed. It's a very mechanical genre.

I hope I didn't rain on anyone's parade. Didn't mean to.


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