Vampire Vocab

Alice-Marie knows a little bit about her story now. She says it might be about an unpopular girl, an outcast, but past that she lost. So, this edition of “My Friend Alice-Marie” will be dedicated to…reasons to be an outcast! Most people are outcast because they are what society refers to as “weird”. There are many reasons to be weird though, so here are a few, both fantasy based and otherwise.

1. The person is more imaginative than other people. If this is the case, the author can switch between whats really happening and the main charecters fantasy/perspective.

2. The person has a secret. That is kind of broad and can be fantasy or realistic, so here are some realistic ones. The person knows a secret about someone that would ruin their lives if it got out, so the person is hiding from the person whose life would be ruined. The person is a murdurer and doesn’t want to be caught. The person is hiding something to protect somone else. I’ll say more about potential secrets later.

3. The person has a (fantasy) secret. Unrealistic examples of secrets: The person has a superpower and doesn’t want to be revealed. The person has a curse upon them. The person is actually a different species, but doesn’t know it (like a fairy changeling. The person might know that they’re different, too.)

4. The person is mentally scarred. This DOES NOT mean crazy. It means they have an event in their past that has changed them forever, like a parent dying, or witnessing a murder. It could even be something as simple as falling off a couch, to cause an eternal and unrelenting fear of couches. Who knows?

5. The person could have a deteriorating  mental state due to stress or other factors in his/her life. This is the type of story that, if written well enough, makes many people, including me, cry.

Secrets (realistic): Being Gay or Lesbian An affair. Commiting or hiding a murder. Stealing. Basically, anything that could wound a persons reputation, mental state, something frowned upon in society, etc. The list is endless, and remember, a secret isn’t always hiding a bad thing.

Secrets (unrealistic): Can perform magic. Can fly. Can read minds. Super Strength. A fairy Changeling. A shape-shifter. A vampire. If the list of realistic secrets was endless, this one is doubly so. Your secret doesn’t have to be huge like being a vampire: all it takes is something that really differentiates you from the rest, like you’re 1/8 mermaid so, though you don’t have scales or a tail, you swim really well and have an amazing singing voice. In the aforesaid case, the story could be about how an outcast won American Idol because of her mermaid heritage. Anyway, secrets are what make things interesting, right?

Therefore, I hope Alice-marie finds a good direction for her story to go. She has a ton of talent, so I’m sure that whatever she decides to do, it will be Awesome!

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 at 1:19 pm and is filed under Life, Ramblings, Writing.
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