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Fantasy: May 01, 2019 Issue [#9476]




 This week: Vampires
  Edited by: NaNoNette Author IconMail Icon
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1. About this Newsletter
2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
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Hello Fantasy readers and writers, I am NaNoNette Author Icon and I will be your guest editor for this issue.


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Letter from the editor

Vampires


Some (maybe all of you?) might wonder what vampires are doing in a Fantasy newsletter. Don't they belong into the Horror/Scary newsletter?
There might have been a time when that would have felt true, without a doubt.
In those olden days when Vampires were scary and haunted the most horrific of your dreams, at least came with some serious defects that gave us mortals the ability to live another day - even when there was a Vampire around.

Classic and widely known ways to kill a Vampire were:
- SUNLIGHT
- Wooden stake through the heart
- Garlic
- Holy symbols and holy water

And then things started to change.
One by one, our tried and true weapons to overcome this sinister denizen of the night fell by the wayside.

SUNLIGHT this once tried and true, surefire way to destroy a Vampire, is one weakness that is a writer favorite to destroy.
There was "Blade," the famous Daywalker created by Marvel in 1973 and later played by Wesley Snipes in the movie. Not only does Blade get to walk in the sun, even those other vampires in Blade have the ability to be outdoors in daylight as long as they wear motorcycle clothes made of leather and full-cover helmets.
In 2006, Stephenie Meyer published her Vampire teen romance called "Twilight." Not only do her Vampires not burn up in SUNLIGHT, they shine like a diamond!

What about getting staked through the heart? Does that work?
Surprisingly, getting staked through the heart will still kill many Vampires. Some only become paralyzed, but those sexy Twilight Vampires and well as those hanging around New Orleans in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles have no ill effects from getting staked through their cold, unbeating hearts.

Garlic ... In Anne Rice's "Vampire Chronicles," garlic doesn't affect Vampires one bit. Same with those shiny Twilight Vampires.

Just as the other examples above, holy symbols and holy water only affect a few of the older Vampires such as Carmilla and Bram Stoker's Dracula, but has no effect on modern Vampires. Some kind of don't like holy symbols, but it's nothing they truly have to worry about.

Whenever you have a Vampire in your story, his/her weaknesses are entirely up to you. You can make them near invulnerable or give them loads of things to fear that can destroy them. Whichever way you choose to go, make a list of their powers and weaknesses so that you stay consistent throughout the story. This, of course, doesn't keep you from having a Vampire that starts out with a certain weakness, but finds a way to overcome it.


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Ask & Answer

For my last Fantasy newsletter "The GoblinOpen in new Window., I received the following comment:

Paul Author Icon wrote: Hi,

I don’t have one. Character development is big, having a story line that supports the character is up there too. Acting and direction because if I don’t believe it I can’t crawl into the story and I won’t read or watch it. Having done 100 stage plays and a couple movies/videos I understand what it takes. When it works it curls my toes and that’s going some. I’m almost never frightened.

Thank you for the newsletter and all the effort you put into making it happen.

Stay safe and enjoy life.

Paul🐸

Now that I look at your comment again, I can see how this could be a fitting reply to anything scary. Goblin or Vampire.

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