Writing research on vampire plot bunny.

Writing Research 1

Oh, the things we readers put into a novel, all by our lonesome selves, and then attribute it to the author. The guesswork and conjecture concerning Stoker’s Dracula novel may be the reason it is an enduring classic.

However, I admit to skimming heavily the unabridged edition to get to the action as fast as possible because it was just a big religious discussion too much of the time.

Coitus Interruptus: Sex, Bram Stoker, and Dracula.

Writing Research 2

Something that has been on my mind for a while, longer than this WIP existed in my head. This question started since reading Dracula, then the Lestat novels. Then Buffy comes along with her barn of bulls, and Edward has a baby with what’s her name, and some psychic blonde in a backwoods bar has more than one vampire tagging after her bottom, and it goes on and on.

Modern sex maniac vampires: how likely are they? Really?

http://howanimalsdoit.com/2011/11/01/the-reproductive-biology-of-vampires/