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Author Craft / Help on procedures for kids of dead parents.
« on: August 02, 2008, 07:27:37 PM »
In a story I am writing a boy's father commits suicide, I was wondering if there was any online resource for what the police would do with the boy and his younger brother.

I was thinking it happened in a small town in Kansas, the boy is 13 years old with a 7 year old brother, only living relative is 19 year old sister in another state.

Is there anywhere I could find information about what would be done?

Only the first day or so matters for the story as acts of plot make it moot afterward.

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Author Craft / Vampires, Werewolves, and Elves as Evil Beings
« on: January 29, 2008, 07:24:02 AM »
Vampires, Werewolves, and Elves as Evil Beings

These traditional monsters have been glamorized by our culture and I am planning on writing truly evil versions of these being, any idea on divorcing them from the sympathy that our culture provides?

This is what I have so far.

Vampires are dead and vile, they concern themselves with dark pleasures, and they rape and murder and steal at whim and lack the slightest empathy or remorse.
They kill and hurt each other to keep their own inline and have cultures darker than any human one.

Werewolves I have more trouble with. They are hard not to make sympathetic if they are cursed with that state and are barely Werewolves if they are not, I have the idea that they are the personification of the wild that we try to tame, monsters who seek to tear down our every wall and tear us down to the state of beasts but I fear that too many would see that as a blessing despite what I attempt to convey.

Elves are the darkest Fae who are dark and cruel and alien.

They seek to torture our children to make them like themselves and torture men for unknown reasons.

They are the easiest as they are often depicted as cruel but are still depicted as far to bright for my tastes, any ideas for making these things dark again?

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