Here Be Vampires!

[3894]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

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.


*ha!

[Betty]

Originally Posted by 3894

An emphatic no.

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

Nah. I've been quite enjoying romance novels lately. Don't mind a bit. I like counting on the happy ending I think.

But it's true what you said - they are all such the same story, to some extent, over and over.

[flippyshark]

Originally Posted by 3894

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.


*ha!

So, will your NaNoWriMo novel be about vampires?