It was fun and shocking to see. I always said i was surprised that True Blood never had an interracial romance .. at least not for the white women. They had an interracial gay romance in the later seasons, between Lafayette (a black gay man) and some white dude, and in fact, the actor who had signed on for this role, the white one, actually dropped out of it because he was so angry once the writers told him he would be in a gay romance w/ a black man. Sad.So anyways, i started writing my own story a bit, and i put a white woman who was hooking up with ablack dude immediately into the story. My story has vampires and stuff. Personally, i love the way Charlaine Harris writes (she's the one behind both Midnight, Texas, and True BLood) but i almost think i could do the vampires better. Witches too. I wrote a post last week about how i was upset i haven't written hard fantasy in awhile, and how i've just been doing straight realist stories, mostly with women who like sleeping around a great deal. It is now occurring to me that writing stories like Charlaine Harris does might be my best hope yet, cause all her stories are a cross between reality and fantasy. I mean, I always loved True Blood, and I even watched Witches of East End a few years ago, and loved it, but i almost wasn't identifying any of this as fantasy because, much of the time, the shows themselves aren't respected in "real" fantasy circles.
Vampires, for example, are never really used in any Dungeons and Dragons-esque roleplaying games. So it was like it wasn't fantasy or something... i dunno. Now I'm doing it tho. I do remember about a year and a half ago I obsessed over Charmed for awhile and was writing stories about witches. Now i'm doing witches, vampires, werewolves, warlocks, all of it, in one story. A crock pot of combinations! This is what Charlaine Harris does every time.
It's a bit challenging knowing how to write the vampires. There are only so many ways to twist them. I'm coming up w/ some good ideas thoand having fun. What i find fascinating about Harris's stories, for example, is that the way she actually writes seems really tame --she's a 60+ year old Southern woman--- but then, you watch the show, and its all as risque as could be, in many respects. The sex on TB was very graphic and so was the violence. I loved it. In fact, in my story I'm writing now, I'm almost thinking i might have a particularly gruesome scene where, like, some group of vampires is out prowling the dark night and they come upon a pregnant woman and just rip the baby right out of her stomach and bite it. It turns into a baby vampire. Oh my god. Do you think that could work? Or is it too risque? It's always this fine line. Its the same with rape scenes. I always want some character to get raped -- becasue it adds drama!! -- but then im like, oh wait a second, would readers be offended? Stories that sell have the perfect ingredients. Can't be too tame, can't go too far. God damn challenging line to walk.
As usual i have no title for the story. I think i got enough ammo to get to the end tho. I'm a regular little Danielle Steele now tho i swear. Soon i'll release everything im working on. I'll get rich off the books, or at least comfortable, move to Nicaragua and change my sex. I might even take the name Charlaine because i like it, but my last name won't be Harris. I'll make it something like Rose. Oh, sexy! Charlaine Rose. A world with two Charlaine's in it who both write sexy vampire dramas doesnt sound like a bd one to me. How about you?
Anyways back to my story.
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