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I came up with
his story about a month before starting my one and only years at Coronado High
School. I was playing in the downstairs utility room when I had an idea about
a Vampire. The first scene came to me in an adolescent starting to become an adult
way. I was thinking about a Vampire standing in front of a full-length window
in a high-rise building. The Vampire hears the elevator
dink behind him. My young teenage brain turned
a perfectly nice intro scene into an action adventure scene, where the team coming
out of the elevator are armed to bear. They start to shoot automatic weapons the
second the doors open. Forcing the Vampire to fleet then magically transform into
a shadow then disappear. End of scene With maturity, the scene
works much better if it works out differently. After trying to write some
basic notes down about the ideas and random scenes, I hit a brick wall. I did
not have the writing skills at the time to write a script or even a solid story.
Hours to days layer I
came up with another scene with the same team members 3 men who were armed similar to the way the marvel comic character of Blade is
depicted but I would not learn the character of Blade existed for several years.
I was not a comic book person. I had a few, but was
by no means into them. I knew wolverine, but had
only seen friends with the comic. Had not read even one of them. Had of
course the mainstream comics, but had very little interaction
with them. I was not interested. I did manage to write a
12-page story about Hercules months previous, but I did not have the maturity
to apply a story without an existing plot line to apply to my vampire story. After working on the
idea for mohths in the first few days of attending
Coronado Hgi School as a Sophomore. 10, 11, 12
grades, finishing my time at Holmes Junior High. I asked Dawn Smit in the Coronado High School
library, I approached like a boy asking a girl to a dance. “can you write”, was
my question. “she said “Yes”. I need help writing a vampire
story. She was sold entirely, lock, stock, and barrel. Over the next months we
fleished out my immature story into something
resembling not a bad thing. My original story had extremely
well-developed characters with specific schema traits. Two semi
fleshed out action scenes. But nowhere in the neighborhood of
the plot. Scene one the Elevator Scene two Evonne, Characters Shaffer vampire Evonne vampire Robert vampire hunter Roberts wife Middle brother vampire hunter William Young brother vampire
hunter I created another scene Evonne a female very old
but not as old as Shaffer. The team go into a nest
possibly some type of cave, although more tunnel/mine than in Lost Boys nasty
cave. The team go into the cave
and begin the process to find the master Vampire Evonne. Once at the coffin the youngest
brother William positions a metal spike over hwere the “heart” should be. Instead
of opening the lid, he would hammer through it much like thor
with a railroad spike He hammers, but the empty
coffin splinters. Evonne is somewhere else,
in a different coffin. Wakes up and escapes with the brothers in chase, close
to identical to the story line of Blade. Minus the African descent. On a return
trip to the Springs when I was 18, Dawn even stated that the comic Blade was remarkably
close to what I came up with. First I heard of the
character of blade. Enter my first days of
Coronado High School library My original untitled story
stopped being my story and became Hank and Dawns story. The changes were subtle
at first, but over time, my core characters were moved from primary characters
to secondary. Their self-schema characters took center stages. My original character
Shaffer became instead of a neutral equal to Dracula Vampire, became fodder
for Gregory and Evonne to torture and kill. |
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