Getting The Vampires Just Right

Things are going slowly with the editing and rewrites. I keep getting distracted by other things such as Facebook. I think I'm an internet junkie. Totally. I'm also completely addicted to Diet Rite Pure Zero Tangerine soda, but that's beside the point. It also doesn't help that the medications that I'm on make me so tired that I sleep till pretty late every day. I mean like afternoon kind of late. I have GOT to get out of that habit! It's totally not healthy for me or my writing career. It leaves me with too little time to accomplish anything once I check my email, blog, check the weather, and update things on my Facebook and Twitter accounts. It does help that I've linked my MySpace and Twitter accounts so that when I update Twitter it automatically updates MySpace as well. Total time saver there...

I'm still working through some details with my vampires that are introduced in the second installment of the Elyssia Masters series, The Council. I want them to be very real characters in the world that Elyssia is learning more about. However, I also would like them to be a bit frightening, yet sexy in a way. I know that's been done over and over in Young Adult books. That's where I'm running into my trouble with them. How do you make a "new" vampire when so many other writers out there have already come up with a dozen or more "new" vampires to contradict the old mythology of the vampire?

There are several ideas I have, and I haven't even gotten to that point in the book yet as I edit and do minor rewrites so I have some time. I started back at page one and am working slowly through the book, rereading it, editing mistakes, and making minor rewrites as I go. When I finally reach the point where the vampire characters are introduced, I will have a lot more to work on in the rewrite department. I don't plan to completely rework the characters, just some of the mythology behind MY vampires. I feel like I didn't make them threatening enough to seem like "real" vampires.

Maybe it's just in my head, but I am not happy with the book so far as that goes. If I'm not happy with that part, I can't in good conscious finish the book and release it to the public. Therein lies the deep problem. There are many people interested in the second book, and I'm still hung up on the first six chapters of rewrites before I can convince myself to move forward with the remainder of the book. Until I get the vampires just right, the rest of the book will remain on hold. I know that sucks for anyone wanting to get their hands on the finished product ASAP,but that's just the way it has to be for me to be happy.

Today's music of the moment is also off my iTunes "Writing" playlist. This is a new song I downloaded from the iTunes store a couple of weeks ago since I loved hearing it on the radio. The title is "Use Somebody", and it's by Kings of Leon. I think this song may fall into the playlist for Train Wrecks, but I'm not sure yet. For all you Twilight fans, did you know that Kings of Leon is a favorite band of Robert Pattinson's? Just something I ran across once on the internet in an interview of him.

That's all for today! Time to go get ready to take Jimmy to the doctor about getting his tonsils out!