Different Kinds of Vampire Storylines
With Communion in the hands of Beta-readers and my most recent project Sparkle ready to be published on Wattpad later this week, I’m not sure what I should write next. Although, it will likely involve vampires.
To give a little bit of background about myself, I always told myself I would NEVER write a vampire story. Then I worked on a story called Lamia’s Dream, which uses succubi. My succubi drain a person’s emotional energy, kind of like a psychic vampire. While on break from that story, I wrote Communion, which centers around creatures called dhampir.
Now I can’t get enough of the blood suckers and I’m thirsty for another vampire story. To figure out where I should go with vampires next, it’d be helpful to know what’s been done with the night time terrors before.
Here are some common vampire storylines:
Romance: A female (usually human) and a male (usually vampire). In Lamia’s Dream, I tried to switch it up by having a human male and female succubus pairing.
Love slave: This falls under romance, except the human (usually female) is a slave to the vampire.
Revenge: Vampires killed the protagonist’s family. Now the protag is gonna make those fang faces pay!
Vamp/Human Hybrid: Protag is has a vampire parent and human parent. Is often a vampire hunter.
Rebellion: The vampires are the reigning authority and someone has the stop them.
Horror: In the spirit of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the humans have no special abilities but have to fight a supernatural foe.
Comedy/Parody: Some vamps just wanna stay out of trouble, but trouble has a way of finding them!
Coming of age: This one also isn’t vampire specific. But a younger vampire “grows up” (so to speak) to become a more mature vampire.
Fledgling: This is like the coming of age story. But it usually focuses on the human who was first turned into a vampire and they’re struggle to adapt. Communion would fall under this category.
This list isn’t meant to be all-inconclusive. In fact, I might be missing some. Can you think of any other examples of the vampire storylines?
Posted on June 25, 2013, in Vampire, Writing and tagged dracula, independent publish, plot, Self-Publish, storyline, succubus, Vampires, Wattpad, writing. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
I can’t think of any other vampire-type stories, but I know exactly how you felt when you said you would NEVER write a vampire story, but still want to write one. I’m currently working on a story line for my own (not much progress there).
I know how that goes. It took me months to come up with the story line for the vampire story I wrote, Communion. And some of what I wrote I came up with AFTER I starting because I had thought up better ideas along the way. But the fun thing about planning stories is you can jot down some ideas here and there while you’re working on a different project all together. Are you thinking of using an older, more traditional vampire or one in a young adult story?