Blogging A to Z Challenge: V is for Vampires
The A to Z challenge is a challenge in which bloggers post every day during the entire month, and each day has a post starting with a different letter of the alphabet. The first day, the post features “A”, the second day “B”, and so on. It’s much better explained on the Blogging from A to Z website, so I’ll just refer you there.
I started writing thanks to a book about vampires. It was titled “In The Forests of the Night”, and written by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, who was still in her teens when she wrote it. I loved that book. First time I read it, I had brought it from the library, and I devoured it twenty times over the course of one week.
No. I’m not kidding. Twenty times.
And then, I borrowed it from the library again, and read it another twenty times. But I could never seem to find it in the book store, although I wanted to buy it more than anything else.
Several years later, I went to a giant book fair in Antwerp, and I found it there. I bought the book right away (duh!). Since then, I must’ve read it like fifty times.
So, that’s about a hundred times total. That’s how obsessed I am. And you know what? I still love it. Every time I read it, I fall in love with the characters all over again.
But then I bought the sequel, one of my first online purchases, and…well, to say it was dissapointing would be the understatement of the year.
But long story short, that’s how vampires made me want to become an author.
Sounds like the book released the vampire in you! Ooo-errr!
Haha 🙂
There are several books that have inspired me. I suspect that the author changed and grew quite a bit in thinking and writing. There is something about that flow of imagination when we’re kids and that perspective.
Sia McKye Over Coffee
Yep, I agree!
It’s so nice to find someone else with a love for vampires 🙂 Have you been reading Timothy Brannan’s posts (386 on the list)? They’re all about vampires this year.
Tasha
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No, I haven’t read them yet, but thanks so much for the recommendation! I’ll have to read them.
I can’t think of any book I’ve read that many times… though the book that probably made me want to be writer was Fred Saberhagen’s Book of Swords (and even that is not 100% true, as I wanted to be a writer even when I was a little kid, but that was the first book that I remember trying to emulate).
I’ve never heard of that one. I’ll have to check it out.
Hi,
Then go for it!
Become that author and write the type of story that you would like to read. I am sure there are many people out there that would like to read your story.
Thank you also for visiting my blog.
Visiting from the A to Z Blog Challenge.
Shalom,
Patricia at Everything Must Change
Thank you! I don’t think I’ve ever quite captured that magic yet, but here’s hoping.