I posted a question earlier asking for a name for my character in a story I'm writing. I got a reply that I found a little unnerving saying that I should change the girls age and my idea to a love story between an abusive vampire guy and a girl who wanted to be with him and be LIKE him.
My original idea is about a thirteen/fourteen-year-old girl who is an outcast and creates a father-daughter bond with a classic renaissance vampire, Alrek Klaus, in the early eighteen hundreds. Both the Vampire and the girl fill the spots they need in their lives; Alrek had lost his daughter to a disease when she was nine, and the girl's father, a minister, neglected her and, instead, favoured her younger brother and older sister.
After the girl convinces him she doesn't belong in the human world, Alrek agrees to change her but warns her of the dangers of becoming like him; like First-Year (the first year after the Rebirth of a vampire is the one time in a vampire's existence where most die due to numerous reasons, the younger age they're turned at, the less likely they are to survive.) He promises her he'd be there to teach her and protect her when she woke from her sleep.
Alrek dies the night he turns the girl (humans fall into a coma for 24 hours before waking again as a vampire) so she is left alone to face First-Year.
Basically the story is of the girl's struggle to survive her first year as an immortal.
I didn't want to write a Vampire Romance because it's been done SOOOO many times and it's driving me around the bend. And I was inspired by the movie "Let Me In" and intrigued by the character 'Abby'.
So, would you read a story like mine even though there is no romance in it? Or would you only read a Vampire story WITH romance in it?
OH! I forgot to say, I don't mean to put down the person who gave me that reply...it just got me wondering if that's the only thing people truly want to read in a vampire story.
My original idea is about a thirteen/fourteen-year-old girl who is an outcast and creates a father-daughter bond with a classic renaissance vampire, Alrek Klaus, in the early eighteen hundreds. Both the Vampire and the girl fill the spots they need in their lives; Alrek had lost his daughter to a disease when she was nine, and the girl's father, a minister, neglected her and, instead, favoured her younger brother and older sister.
After the girl convinces him she doesn't belong in the human world, Alrek agrees to change her but warns her of the dangers of becoming like him; like First-Year (the first year after the Rebirth of a vampire is the one time in a vampire's existence where most die due to numerous reasons, the younger age they're turned at, the less likely they are to survive.) He promises her he'd be there to teach her and protect her when she woke from her sleep.
Alrek dies the night he turns the girl (humans fall into a coma for 24 hours before waking again as a vampire) so she is left alone to face First-Year.
Basically the story is of the girl's struggle to survive her first year as an immortal.
I didn't want to write a Vampire Romance because it's been done SOOOO many times and it's driving me around the bend. And I was inspired by the movie "Let Me In" and intrigued by the character 'Abby'.
So, would you read a story like mine even though there is no romance in it? Or would you only read a Vampire story WITH romance in it?
OH! I forgot to say, I don't mean to put down the person who gave me that reply...it just got me wondering if that's the only thing people truly want to read in a vampire story.
