Foxes Wild: Forewording Notes

[sincere]

New thing now, as it were. Potentially to be called Foxes Wild, potentially to be my NaNoWriMo endeavor, with Fiona as the main character and Maxim, clearly, as a vampire.


Fiona's Foreword

This is not a vampire story.

I am not a hunter, nor a slayer, of vampires. I am not one myself and do not commonly keep company with any; they are rather unpleasant to hang around with, show-offy know-it-all bastards. I don't find them fascinating, attractive, or even interesting.

While we're on the topic, I'm sick of vampire stories. It seems like they only have two approaches to the topic: vampires ooze angst, or vampires ooze sensuality. Either a vampire is effeminate, guilt-ridden, and endlessly whining about how he's not human, he's a walking blood-leeching corpse... Or he's an indiscriminate sexpot and of course you, Ms. Main Character, Ms. Slayer, Ms. Narrator, are the object of his full, carnal attention. Is it so impossible to assume that -- as they used to be human and all -- a vampire is as three-dimensional as a human? They do technically qualify as 'people,' you know, manipulative elitists though they may be. The vampires may not deserve that sort of fair representation, but the readers do. Writers are so lazy these days.

This is not a vampire story.

This is a story with vampires in it.

Maxim's Foreword

This is a vampire story.

Comments

[sakusha.livejournal.com]

<3 <3 Indescribable love for you.

[anoma.livejournal.com]

I would totally read any novel with those forewords.

I was sitting here nodding along to Fiona's foreword. "Yeah, I hear you, fictional person, but that's what a lot of folks say about their stories..." And then Maxim's short, simple contradiction nearly made me inhale my soda. Yay for timing!

[kay-willow.livejournal.com]

Maxim is a bit contrary... but Fiona is a bit biased. XD I knew I had to write the forewards exactly like this because Fiona wanted to complain about the Vampire Standards and then, of course, Maxim had to step in to defend his species and... It was born, just like this.

I think I have a gift for compelling opening hooks. Now if only I could write the rest of the story after that. XD Thanks for the opinion, though!

[madfnorder.livejournal.com]

Nice. I laughed out loud.

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

You know, I never actually thought about that fact until just now. What's up with that? Why /are/ vampires so polarized in popular culture?

[kay-willow.livejournal.com]

I guess it's because vampires are usually one or both of the following things: a goth symbol, or a sexual symbol. As the Kings of Goth they're dark, angsty, all in black, often cerebral, occasionally effeminate -- because that's what the goths like. On the other hand, since Dracula vampires have also classically been sexual, the sort of charisma that leaves you helpless and entranced and weak in the knees and all that good stuff, which is very a much a feminine fantasy of the masculine, I think.

So there's the polarization right there. It's hard to find a good crossover... so if I'm lucky, I'll manage to make Maxim somewhat more three-dimensional. ^^