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There are a lot of proofreaders and various editors who offer their services to writers and many work in particular genres. Many aren't that knowledgeable about what a manuscript polished enough to publish looks like, so it seems difficult to get one that does and can take you on as project...

Yeah, there's another thing that's never explained or was not thought carefully enough on Meyer's part...most likely the last part. I think that Meyer was really banking on that nuclear-family-with-perfect-lover-equals-happiness as her twist/to-the-next-level plotline to her vampire love story...

A late reiteration: (I tend to write a lot because I think as I write and non-attentively self-edit, so sorry for another long post. Also sorry for a post that seemed lecturey. I rarely talk about this stuff with others.) All of it is just fiction, fantasy fiction at that, with authors'...

What was the reaction like? Was the vampire mentally like an adult and what age if yes?

Meyer's Twilight leaves a lot to be desired in terms of technicalities and the logic behind her vampires. Yes, there are always plot holes, logical inconsistencies, logic holes, etc, especially in fantasy, the occasional "ooo, I don't know about that!" (If you upend and mess with ideology and...

I really haven't been considering the public reception and publishers' willingness to publish a story aspect in this. Another person in this chat said that depending on the writer handles characterization, context, and setting that writers can depict a relationship with a significant age gap if...

I see your point about other immortals. Perhaps, it is that vampires are not "human" in that they are ruled by their instincts more than a warlock with immortality. Maybe it's that a warlock is still bound by human society/condition because their basic spiritual and/or biological being is...

"Angst"! That's the word I was looking for to bring up a particular trait/behavior/etc that we especially attribute and see in teenagers versus children or adults. And that's really interesting! I can imagine the 30-years-old-when-turned vampire having some concerns that a "typical", or expected...

Oof. Even this can be very unsettling for many people with some justification. Imagining the reality of an adult body that way with an eight-year-old's body is kinda horrifying. I do know what you're referring to: Claudia, being a maybe 30-year-old mentally, has a relationship with Louis. I...

I think similarly since fiction, writing, and storytelling--all are arts of playing with ideas themselves and testing the ideas in imagined scenarios to witness how viable they are. Fantasy storytelling is the art of playing, remodeling, and revising familiar cultural and philosophical beliefs...

I have written in this thread about this, and I said that I thought that Twilight vamps appear to be able to learn new skills and absorb information, it's just that it seems their "semi-core" personality, their strong preferences, philosophies, etc. don't go through deep and meaningful changes...

And a precedent has definitely been set. I was wondering if there were other tales with that twist, so I can enjoy them myself.

That would be cool to see. Very tragic. It seems most people are just over vampires or if they still are, wouldn't like it because it makes them sadder or brings their mood down. Don't relate, but I'm thinking about what most people like in their media. As for nonTwilight vampires, I'd say it's...

If we're still talking about Twilight I don't think a vampire would consider the age much, especially if they lived pre- postmodern times. Other than that, I also don't think they consider the age of potential partner because, again, Twilight vamps don't really care about age-when-turned as much...

I forgot about Claudia! Are there really other vampire pieces where vamps halt physical aging/physical change but are still able to mentally age? As you say that precedent is set? I always found that about Claudia fascinatingly tragic.