Today, creating a journal to work through my writing ideas. I want to write something like I've never read, and that can be difficult. In procrastinating I have been exploring much of the web and visiting the home pages of authors, etc. that I enjoy. I find nothing better sometimes than to read someone else's story, see how they got to where they are, and then dream up how I'm going to get to where I want to be. Right now I call what I am trying to write "gothic fantasy." I created one which crashed and burned, then had ideas for another, but I have a main character and no plot, likewise in the aformentioned story, a plot and no good characters. When creating fantasy, it seems most logical to start out with a "world." Before proceeding, you must create the world and the parameters within it in order to visualize the story. In my work "Dark Angel" (which has crashed and burned) I created a post-apocalyptic earth, and that continued to bother me.
Tonight is the night of the vampire.