So, I’ve been working on a project last week, a vampire novella, and I am hoping to get it published. The story itself is the trial/confession of a vampire who has killed another vampire. The thing is, it is so much more than that, at least it is to me. I have many stories in my head, most authors probably do, but this is the epicenter of what I hope will be a storm of vampire and other gothic tales I want to tell. If I can ever get them down, I have a whole world of vampire stories I want to share, a whole mythology, I’d almost say.
Yet, with those grand visions before me, I recognize a certain mundanity in this first step. This isn’t a great epic or a waiting classic. Be sure to read Carmilla or Dracula before perusing my little novella.
I have talked ere now of the first novels I tried to write while I was in high school. You can read parts of them here and here. One of those initial attempts, one I haven’t talked about before, I was going to title Fortnight (this was before the videogame sort of polluted the word) as it would have detailed the trials of a family fighting off a group of vampires over a fortnight. Even here, when I was just starting into college and realizing the inescapable need I had to write, I find that the idea was forming of this little novella, or, more to speak, of the effects the events of this novella have on my imaginary world.
Maybe these stories I have will never be told. I doubt, even if I lived to a hundred, I’d have the time to write them all in full. I don’t know what the future will bring. In the here and now, I have this story which is fairly close to being ready to publish. Maybe it will prosper and grow into the trunk from which many more shoots will spread and flower, or maybe just this one, little story of this one, lonely vampire will be all I ever get to share with the world.
Sow your seed in the morning,
and at evening let your hands not be idle,
for you do not know which will succeed,
whether this or that,
or whether both will do equally well.Ecclesiastes 11:6
Related: https://thestoryark.locals.com/post/2557125/work-in-progress-wednesday
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