Less Is More: Creating a Vampire World

Reblogged from Thinking Skull:



I just wrote a piece over on Vamped.org about my take on vampires. Here's a bit:


One issue I've noticed in a lot of paranormal fiction is scale: getting too big too fast.


All the vampires have a werewolf bodyguard, legions of angels are waiting behind every storm cloud, and the sewers are bursting with more vampires than rats.


In these kinds of stories, it’s almost a given that the protagonist will catch the eye of someone too big for them to handle, setting up a final confrontation with world-changing ramifications.



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Published on February 06, 2014 21:41
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