The Great CC Cafe Novel

[Yellow Fang]

I'd write a vampire story. The situation is that there is community of vampires living in the UK, but they are very discreet. They select victims that won't be missed. They don't want anybody leaving corpses with puncture marks in their necks lying dead in the street. The Old Bill would take an interest. It would be difficult to keep out the papers. So, when a victim survives and turns into a rather rash vampire, someone's got to deal with him.

I am prepared to sell the film and TV rights for the right price.

 

[biggs682]

One dark night whilst walking down towards the Fox and crown....

 

[Drago]

I'd write a vampire story. The situation is that there is community of vampires living in the UK, but they are very discreet. They select victims that won't be missed. They don't want anybody leaving corpses with puncture marks in their necks lying dead in the street. The Old Bill would take an interest. It would be difficult to keep out the papers. So, when a victim survives and turns into a rather rash vampire, someone's got to deal with him.

I am prepared to sell the film and TV rights for the right price.

Accy the Vampire Slayer?

By day a smartly turned and urbane man about town, by night fighting supernatural threats to civilisation.

The beauty is that every TV or movie time buster has a strange vehicle. The Batmobile, Dave Starskey's Gran Torino, Bergerac's Triumph, Accy's Fiat 500.

 

[gbb]

However this pans our, don't let Hollywood get their hands on it...it'll only get spoiled

 

[Drago]

Indeed. Dwayne Johnson as Accy just doesn't seem right somehow.

 

[Once a Wheeler]

Once you have finished writing it, you can sell the film and the TV rights for anything you can get. Remember the famous remark of Sir Stanley Unwin (founder of Allen & Unwin Publishers) when asked what advice he gave to those wishing to get published: First, write a rattling good book.

 

[DRM]

Accy the Vampire Slayer?

By day a smartly turned and urbane man about town, by night fighting supernatural threats to civilisation.

The beauty is that every TV or movie time buster has a strange vehicle. The Batmobile, Dave Starskey's Gran Torino, Bergerac's Triumph, Accy's Fiat 500.

How about Sherlock Accy, or a reboot of The Saint, along with his faithful 4 legged companion, solving crimes across the North West, Simon Templar made the Volvo P1800 famous, imagine what it could do for Fiat!

 

[Yellow Fang]

Going back to my vampire story, part the reason the police have difficulty tracking them is that they don't show up on CCTV. Stands to reason. If they don't show up in mirrors then they don't show up on video tape or whatever they use now. They also have a good way of disposing of the vampires. Drink most their blood, but not enough to kill them. Let them turn into vampires, but leave them in the morning sun. This is probably what they were doing when the rash, young vampire broke free.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Got another idea: a cycling race book based on Moby Dick. Think Tim Crabbe's The Rider, but the protagonist has a prosthetic leg. He lost it in a road accident, while he was trying to beat the cyclist all in white, who he blames for the accident. Ever since he's left hospital, he's been entering road races to try and beat him. It's not happened yet.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Back to my vampire story. I think I'd have a scene in which a vampire victim was taken to hospital. This would be something the vampire community was very concerned about. What would the doctors think to seeing the victim growing pointy teeth? What would happen if you tried to do an MRI scan on them? What would happen if you tried to X-ray them? Would they show up? Would they burn up? How would the vampire community try to stop the investigation? I'd have to ascertain what these particularly vampires could or could not do. Can they turn it bats? In the Bram Stoker book they could turn themselves to mist and slip under doors. I have often wondered about the bat business. Bats weigh about ten ounces. An adult man weighs in the region of 12 stone.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

@Yellow Fang
In one of the Terry Pratchett books, the question of 'weight transferance' is explained by the transformation being into a flock of bats!!
But the charactor explains that all of the bats have to get back together to tranform back

 

[Yellow Fang]

@Yellow Fang
In one of the Terry Pratchett books, the question of 'weight transferance' is explained by the transformation being into a flock of bats!!
But the charactor explains that all of the bats have to get back together to tranform back

That makes sense.

 

[cyberknight]

Going back to my vampire story, part the reason the police have difficulty tracking them is that they don't show up on CCTV. Stands to reason. If they don't show up in mirrors then they don't show up on video tape or whatever they use now. They also have a good way of disposing of the vampires. Drink most their blood, but not enough to kill them. Let them turn into vampires, but leave them in the morning sun. This is probably what they were doing when the rash, young vampire broke free.

TV series ultraviolet....