Writing is weird

[beccaelizabeth]

I just typed "Where is there in walking distance of the rail station where you can have a full on vampire gang fight?"

... yes, because that's clearly the most important thing to wonder about, right at this moment.


I think I know how the end of my vampire plot clicks together. Slight bobble on the geography, as you can see, but mostly it fits. And I can build in a sort of repeat of the opening scenes with a different outcome.


So, question:

Is it cheating to have vampires active in daylight?
Not walking around in it. I have definite Opinions about that. Vampires burn in sunlight, no sunblock work around allowed.
Just, if they're acting like normal people who just don't want to stand in daylight, who have the windows covered and don't step outdoors but otherwise you can't tell.

Part of me says that's cheating and vampires are dead by daylight.
But another part of me wants to make vampires as difficult to notice as possible, and being comatose all day isn't difficult to notice.

Comments

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Jossverse vamps move around in daylight. I'm actually in the process of preparing a long meta post about it.

[beccaelizabeth]

yeah. and run around outside and start smoking.
I can see how that's useful for the story.

This vampire story I'm writing is being weird for me, because I have to keep reminding it it is a vampire story. It keeps nearly kicking off the metaphor-cover entirely. So my vampires wander around in daytime as long as they're out of daylight and you can't tell just by looking until they get the teeth out and even then there's no grrr face demon just some teeth and eyes and I'm really tempted to have vampire corpses not turn to dust but need their heads cutting off. Make it messy and easy to make mistakes.

Jossverse vampires, there was only the one time there was making mistakes about if someone was a vampire, and that was through careless not through it being actually difficult to tell.