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Are Vamps and Werewolves too overdone?

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Velgron:
Thinking of writing first novel. Basic fantasy setting with elves and all that jazz, but im incorporating werewolves and vampires. Basic plot line is that the main character witnesses his family's slaughter at the hands of vampires and is saved by a werewolf. The child grows up and goes out for revenge however the vamps and wolves have formed an alliance through crime syndicates and so forth which makes things difficult etc... just wondering if this is too overdone or would be too stale.

Yeratel:

--- Quote from: Velgron on September 19, 2007, 03:37:48 AM ---Thinking of writing first novel. Basic fantasy setting with elves and all that jazz, but im incorporating werewolves and vampires. Basic plot line is that the main character witnesses his family's slaughter at the hands of vampires and is saved by a werewolf. The child grows up and goes out for revenge however the vamps and wolves have formed an alliance through crime syndicates and so forth which makes things difficult etc... just wondering if this is too overdone or would be too stale.

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Sounds kind of like a spinoff of Underworld, or Underworld: Evolution. Do you have a character that looks like Kate Beckinsale in a leather bodysuit?  :)

Velgron:
I wish I had a character as such as beckinsale. I realize that it does sound similar but what I stated was the broad plot line. I plan on now having the vamps and werewolves as enemies per se in this. They also wont stick to the shadows. The actual story will be much more complicated... but then again I just came up with this idea earlier today.

Cyclone Jack:

IMO, yes. Vamps and werewolves are overdone. It is becoming increasingly difficult to find any sort of twist or new direction to make them interesting again.

Not as overdone as elves though. I have taken to tossing aside any book that introduces "mysterious, beautiful people, tall and graceful, their voices like music, eyes glinting with the knowledge of ages..." and rot such as that.

If I ever write a story involving elve sI'm gonna make them hideous insectoid things, cannibalistic and stinking, who speak in gutteral grunts and clicks. :P

LizW65:

--- Quote from: Cyclone Jack on September 19, 2007, 05:40:16 AM ---IMO
If I ever write a story involving elve sI'm gonna make them hideous insectoid things, cannibalistic and stinking, who speak in gutteral grunts and clicks. :P


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Kinda like Terry Pratchett's elves with the glamour turned off?

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