any writers?

[OctaviusHunter]

so does anyone on this forum actually write horror or been published?

I'm working on a novel and have had several shorts published on line.

the novel is about a third done and I'm abit stuck so here's the question for y'all: given a psychic vampire-type monster who can cause both psychic and physical trauma and feed through force of will and distance, why would lycanthropy make it more difficult for said creature to feed?

my protaganist was just "gifted" with lycanthropy to better protect him from above creature, now I need to figure out why it's such a great gift.

thanks.

[AUSTIN316426808]

Doesn't that make him a werewolf?

[scouse mac]

Doesn't have to be wolf a lycanthrope turns into.

The monster who feeds maybe needs to hone in on certain 'life forces' generated by different creatures eg humans, dogs, cats whatever. A lycanthrope will have a unique multiple pattern or something which makes it impossible for this monster to track down. I've said this badly but hope you know what I mean.

[novakru]

Well,seeing as how lycanthropes are supernatural and preternatural,it definitely wouldn't have the same energy a human produced.
And the human spirit would probably be a bit more"juicey"if you know what I mean.

Is that your question?
What exactly are you asking here?

If this creature was 'gifted' with lycanthopy,then maybe his/its gift was pre-destined to fight the good fight so to speak...keep the vampires in check so they wouldn't overtake or grow beyond there ability to feed.
You know,like the lions in Africa now will eat a human in a heartbeat because there natural prey is sparse.The whole circle of life in nature is out of whack....so it would be safe to say,a supernautral world could be 'out of whack' as well.

I don't know,I need more info to help out here.

[scouse mac]

Originally posted by novakru
Well,seeing as how lycanthropes are supernatural and preternatural,it definitely wouldn't have the same energy a human produced.
And the human spirit would probably be a bit more"juicey"if you know what I mean.



That is exactly what I meant only this reads a hell of a lot better

:)

[novakru]

Originally posted by scouse mac
That is exactly what I meant only this reads a hell of a lot better

:)

Well,you're more than welcome to steal anything I post:D

[X¤MurderDoll¤X]

Originally posted by OctaviusHunter

my protaganist was just "gifted" with lycanthropy to better protect him from above creature, now I need to figure out why it's such a great gift.


The gift of ripping apart countless people isn't enough?

[Doc Faustus]

Lycanthropy would also make a will stronger, harder to feed from. The animalistic qualities of the essence would make it stronger, and potentially taint the essence.

[dewaholic]

I write. I only have poetry published, ( a couple vampire poems too) cuz I can't get over the procrastination hurdle.

[Elvis_Christ]

Write about how they can lick their own balls.

[Zero]

Originally posted by Elvis_Christ
Write about how they can lick their own balls.

oh my god - that's funny

[Haunted]

Have a scene where the main bad guy shaves off all the "lycanthrope's" hair with an epilady...or hot wax... bet yet..Nads.

[Zero]

Originally posted by Haunted
Have a scene where the main bad guy shaves off all the "lycanthrope's" hair with an epilady...or hot wax... bet yet..Nads.

OUCHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

lol

[OctaviusHunter]

HAHAHAHAHAH . . . LMAO!!!

those were the types of answers I was looking for. I like the preternatural/supernatural take. I was looking at it as having a stronger connection to the primal, thus strengthening the will and the spirit.

If anyone's interested I can send them a page or three from the work in progress. working title is "feeding ground" and no it's not about a vampire run coffee shop :D

I've had two excerpts from what I've written so far published about two years ago online but I can't seem to remember where they were published. The title of the one piece was "the baby boy" if you happened to read it when it came out. That piece is now the prelude to the book.

anyway, thanks tons for the help

[OctaviusHunter]

oops forgot to let everyone know, he's been turned to a werecougar. The one that turned him was initially from the mountains in western montana. thus, I'm also trying to work in the many wonderful attributes of the cougar into why it'll better help the protaganist fight the monster.

thanks again.

[AUSTIN316426808]

Werecougar?

Well, it's new at least.

[Elvis_Christ]

Sounds like Frankenfish

[AUSTIN316426808]

Yeah and we know how well that went.

[Elvis_Christ]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/images/mind/disgust/morescience_disgust/toilet.jpg

[MisterSadistro]

After dubbing the camera on 10 foot pole being held by guy on skateboard and pushed after running girl through the park for needed moving high ange shot The GiraffeCam (tm), I think I should do a weregiraffe movie employing that shot constantly. You can always tell when the weregiraffes are coming since they sound like...er... well, giraffes don't make any sound. Be afraid. Be very afraid :D
CK

[Elvis_Christ]

The audience will need to be stonned very stonned :D

[OctaviusHunter]

you folks crack me up. :D totally.

I took the werecougar from work done by laurel hamilton in her anita black vampire hunter series in which there are many forms of lycanthropes, but some that are more prominent than others.

for instance the werewolves are very prominent, well organized, and very contagious. She also has wereleapards, who are less organized and prominent; wererats who seem to be second only to the wolves; werejaguars for when her characters travel to the southwest part of the country; and even a wereswan a condition brought on by a witch's curse.

the theory seems to be that there will be some forms of lycanthropy that will be found everywhere and there are other forms that are regional and even local. generally these lesser known forms are much harder to contract and predict.

Part of why I chose the werecougar is because it is a silent, solitary hunter, who is very smart, strong, willful, and can be found in all the areas that my characters will be traveling to.

[dewaholic]

Originally posted by Elvis_Christ
The audience will need to be stonned very stonned :D

stonned? So is that more than being stoned?

LOL:p Just giving ya shit.

[OctaviusHunter]

maybe it should be "stoohhhnned"?

[Doc Faustus]

If you do some research and draw off Native American shapechanging traditions , a werecougar might be very feasible. The trick then would be trying to explain the disease as a spiritual/physical change. If you examine shamanism a little, you see that a shapeshifter would just be outwardly assuming a sort of totemic true shape. Hamilton's shapeshifting traditions and connections to folklore are sorta spotty. A werecreature is often just another thing to be. Keep in mind the situation's only as interesting as the person going through it, and that the two should be playing off each other. Hamilton sort of pisses me off in that way. Everybody sooner or later just works out to be their species. It makes supernatural things a lot more banal.

[stubbornforgey]

LOL..
Elvis..stay the hell away from the waikato water supply ..!!

[Elvis_Christ]

Just try and stop me Stubsey!

[OctaviusHunter]

interesting that you bring in native american shamanism. that's what will be experiencing next. It will be the wise woman that trains him along with several others in regards to controlling the lycanthropy and using it. I was thinking directly along the lines of the shamanic shapeshifting but you've definately helped explain it abit better for me.

I agree with you regarding some of hamiltons use of the lycanthrope. her earlier works are much better, but I also take into consideration that she is not writing horror she is writing alternate history and using monsters as part of the medium.

on a more philosophical note, the were cougar also represents an inner conflict that my protaganist continually is struggling with. He is torn between revenge, and aggression on one hand and humility, peace, and forgiveness on the other. The cougar is that part of him that revels in the stalking, and silent killing of prey -- aggression and revenge.

I"m having alot of fun figuring this all out as I write it and thanks for all the help.

[Haunted]

I don't want to be helpful. I want to be a bitch and say things like: Laurel K. Hamilton ripped her shit from White Wolf (cock sucking ass pasties that they are) who ripped their shit from folk tales... and not even the good ones.

However I probably shouldn't say things like that.

[Dante'sInferno]

I'm writing some stories i would like to post on horror to get some feed-back..........ANYBODY want to read them??

[The_Return]

Originally posted by Dante'sInferno
I'm writing some stories i would like to post on horror to get some feed-back..........ANYBODY want to read them??

I will

[The_Return]

Originally posted by The_Return
I will

But you should either PM me or post in the Horror Fiction section, so we dont kill OH's thread

[Haunted]

I'll read them. Be sure and make them extra scary so that the Return wets himself.;) :D

[ItsAlive75]

Originally posted by Haunted
I'll read them. Be sure and make them extra scary so that the Return wets himself.;) :D

And then Return has to post the pictures of him pissin' his drawers.

Speakin of writers, Haunted when are we gonna get to read your stuff?

[Haunted]

When I get off my lazy ass and start writing rather than just conceptualizing. Probably in the not too distant future...like after the holidays or something.

[OctaviusHunter]

It's ok haunted you can say it -- oh, wait you did already. See you're getting more assertive all the time:D

Dante I'd be hip with reading some of your stuff.

I just posted a piece in the fiction section from a short I just submitted to blood rose mag.

I'll post another piece that they published about three years ago.

[Thomasgeorge]

i made 6 horror stories if you want to read them

[Dante'sInferno]

Alright, i have some of the story up just give me some time should get it up by 3 today



P.S. This strory kicks ass:D .

[Haunted]

Originally posted by OctaviusHunter
It's ok haunted you can say it -- oh, wait you did already. See you're getting more assertive all the time:D


I'm always assertive.

And you are....?

[OctaviusHunter]

. . . a mazed. You see the world needs more mazes so I volunteered, it was better than being a noid . . . didn't pay for squat. I've always dreamed of being a loud or if that doesn't work out I'm hoping to be a lowed. I hear the fringe benefits are great if you can get into that group. I think the worst gig was when I was a prehended . . . Wow!! did that suck.

Being a sertive is good, but I hear being ass ertive is really not the gig to get with . . . I guess they've got a fairly bad rap.