Comments on: See the new poll? Is improved version of old poll! http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/02/02/see-the-new-poll-is-improved-version-of-old-poll/ writing, reading, eating, drinking, sport Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:42:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: rebecca http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/02/02/see-the-new-poll-is-improved-version-of-old-poll/comment-page-1/#comment-64188 rebecca Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:34:26 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=1013#comment-64188 <i>"i very much like vampires done well. but there is much not done well. have to search carefully, i guess."</i> they are so hard to find. every once in a great while, i find one that doesn't make me want to scream and fling the book across the room. :D “i very much like vampires done well. but there is much not done well. have to search carefully, i guess.”

they are so hard to find. every once in a great while, i find one that doesn’t make me want to scream and fling the book across the room. :D

]]> By: Patrick http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/02/02/see-the-new-poll-is-improved-version-of-old-poll/comment-page-1/#comment-64145 Patrick Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:54:12 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=1013#comment-64145 Seriously. Everything can be made better with a robot army. To even SUGGEST that robots might be played out.... robots misunderstanding human logic makes for great comedy and hi-jinx please remove robots from the list. They are just not an option. Seriously. Everything can be made better with a robot army. To even SUGGEST that robots might be played out….

robots misunderstanding human logic makes for great comedy and hi-jinx

please remove robots from the list. They are just not an option.

]]> By: Dawn http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/02/02/see-the-new-poll-is-improved-version-of-old-poll/comment-page-1/#comment-64101 Dawn Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:04:27 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=1013#comment-64101 Not everyone's vampires are the same. Plus, maggots only show up when a body has been lying around for awhile. ZOMBIES will be flicking off the maggots, not vampires. Anyway, something that a specific vampire author has said that makes sense to me is something along these lines: there are many types of beasts that have something on their body to attract their prey. So with humans being a vampire's prey, it only makes sense that they're made to attract humans. As a co-writer of a novel that includes vampires, I just had to say something in defense. And just so you know, I HATE poorly written vampire novels with ideas that have been used over and over again. I've read too many of them myself. Hopefully if I ever get published, we'll be able to do that sub-sub-sub-genre of writing some good. Not everyone’s vampires are the same. Plus, maggots only show up when a body has been lying around for awhile. ZOMBIES will be flicking off the maggots, not vampires. Anyway, something that a specific vampire author has said that makes sense to me is something along these lines: there are many types of beasts that have something on their body to attract their prey. So with humans being a vampire’s prey, it only makes sense that they’re made to attract humans.

As a co-writer of a novel that includes vampires, I just had to say something in defense. And just so you know, I HATE poorly written vampire novels with ideas that have been used over and over again. I’ve read too many of them myself. Hopefully if I ever get published, we’ll be able to do that sub-sub-sub-genre of writing some good.

]]> By: Tim http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/02/02/see-the-new-poll-is-improved-version-of-old-poll/comment-page-1/#comment-64100 Tim Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:55:11 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=1013#comment-64100 The poll results would seem to indicate that your planned Daikaiju/ghouls manga series would have lots of running room in the marketplace. If this comment gets you closer to bringing to fruition the said Daikaiju/ghouls manga series . . . my work here has been successful. The poll results would seem to indicate that your planned Daikaiju/ghouls manga series would have lots of running room in the marketplace.

If this comment gets you closer to bringing to fruition the said Daikaiju/ghouls manga series . . . my work here has been successful.

]]> By: Brent http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/02/02/see-the-new-poll-is-improved-version-of-old-poll/comment-page-1/#comment-64099 Brent Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:36:26 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=1013#comment-64099 Well, I think it's a given that most of us like vampires and hate to see them done poorly. So I voted Robots/Cyborgs for my 2nd choice. I'm more than a little tired of the weapon/power that saves the day, rewrites all known science and natural law, but is then gone next episode with no side effects or long-term effects on the economy, sciences, religion, society, etc. Well, I think it’s a given that most of us like vampires and hate to see them done poorly. So I voted Robots/Cyborgs for my 2nd choice. I’m more than a little tired of the weapon/power that saves the day, rewrites all known science and natural law, but is then gone next episode with no side effects or long-term effects on the economy, sciences, religion, society, etc.

]]> By: Mary Elizabeth S. http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/02/02/see-the-new-poll-is-improved-version-of-old-poll/comment-page-1/#comment-64076 Mary Elizabeth S. Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:32:55 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=1013#comment-64076 Hmm...it strikes me that maybe what people hate isn't so much a badly done vampire as it is a legend with so much possibility that doesn't get used? ~Mary (sorry for the double post...) Hmm…it strikes me that maybe what people hate isn’t so much a badly done vampire as it is a legend with so much possibility that doesn’t get used?

~Mary

(sorry for the double post…)

]]> By: Mary Elizabeth S. http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/02/02/see-the-new-poll-is-improved-version-of-old-poll/comment-page-1/#comment-64075 Mary Elizabeth S. Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:26:22 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=1013#comment-64075 It seems quite a lot of people are sick of badly done vampires. We love them, and we hate to see them ruined. Doesn't look like there are many votes for werewolves. Oddly, I have yet to find a werewolf book I liked very well, although I love the idea of werewolves. (Prolly why I'm writing about them, huh?) ~Mary It seems quite a lot of people are sick of badly done vampires. We love them, and we hate to see them ruined.

Doesn’t look like there are many votes for werewolves. Oddly, I have yet to find a werewolf book I liked very well, although I love the idea of werewolves. (Prolly why I’m writing about them, huh?)

~Mary

]]> By: Eric Luper http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/02/02/see-the-new-poll-is-improved-version-of-old-poll/comment-page-1/#comment-64074 Eric Luper Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:20:31 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=1013#comment-64074 Can I write in QUOKKAS? Can I write in QUOKKAS?

]]> By: Delia http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/02/02/see-the-new-poll-is-improved-version-of-old-poll/comment-page-1/#comment-64071 Delia Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:32:48 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=1013#comment-64071 Ghouls. I think ghoul-lovers are an underserved community. Plus, they can eat the extra vampires. Ghouls. I think ghoul-lovers are an underserved community. Plus, they can eat the extra vampires.

]]> By: Justine http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/02/02/see-the-new-poll-is-improved-version-of-old-poll/comment-page-1/#comment-64068 Justine Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:18:59 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=1013#comment-64068 Me too! One of my favourite books ever is Suzy McKee Charnas's <i>The Vampire Tapestry</i>. Me too! One of my favourite books ever is Suzy McKee Charnas’s The Vampire Tapestry.

]]> By: dragonfly http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2008/02/02/see-the-new-poll-is-improved-version-of-old-poll/comment-page-1/#comment-64067 dragonfly Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:17:26 +0000 http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=1013#comment-64067 i very much like vampires done well. but there is much <i>not</i> done well. have to search carefully, i guess. i very much like vampires done well. but there is much not done well. have to search carefully, i guess.

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