Nothing Like a Good Cup of Joe

A few nights ago, Essays.ph contacted me saying that I had passed the first part of the application screening. For the second part, I was to write an applicant sample article. Either that or I travel to Makati for an interview. Since I obviously couldn't do the latter, I made do with the former and spent two days brainstorming on what to write. Finally, I finished an article of 600+ words. My article was initially 1,119 words and the instructions said I only need to write around 500 words but I decided to go with it since I couldn't think of anything else better to pass the second phase with.

True Blood found me this morning and once again seduced me to its nest of sex, blood and violence. A few days ago, I started reading Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris, which loosely inspired the first season but essentially inspired the entire tv series. I just heard they were done with Season 2, which I have yet to begin watching, and were already working with the third season. Season 4 is in the planning phase as well. I just read the summaries for each episode of Season 2. Looks like things are going to be heavily supernatural.

Horror, as far as I'm concerned, is a tricky thing to write, mainly because you have to elicit fear from your readers. On the other hand, they say that anything with death and supernatural or psychological hell makes for something that belongs to the genre.

I'm now stuck in a creative rut for VDDC, my attempt at a sugarcoated horror novel, after staring at it for a few hours and thinking to myself, "Wow. This is fucking cheesy."

I'm in desperate need of the writer bug. I might steal True Blood 2's recipe of intertwined story-telling with 2-3 subplots thrown in the mix. VDDC is absolutely weak with its one plot. It reads poorly, as of this time, and I have yet to write anything aside from the flimsy Chapter One. Wish me luck!

Pepe Out!

† Jofer

Vampire Sex

I was surfing the web earlier when I came upon this certain scene from HBO's True Blood, inspired by Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse Novels, which exemplies what basically makes horror horrific:


Anna Paquin Nude True Blood Season 2 - The best video clips are here

If you're a true blue horror buff like myself then you'd notice that most, if not all, horror stories usually have sex, violence and gore. There'll usually be couples having sex or, in it's place, a scene that just about screams, if not blatantly implies, sex. What's horror without violence? Someone gets hacked and slashed into tiny pieces of its former self. Victims die by getting killed (no duh?!) with just about every weapon a sadistic bastard can think of. Then there's gore. Gore. Gore. Gore. Can we even make horror without blood and deaths? The difference between gore and violence is but a thin line, with gore usually attributed to the product of sheer violence. Still, it all depend on what type of horror you're making, whether it's supernatural or psychological. Either way, it'll be fun. Let's go kill some Mary Sues!

By the way, yes, vampire sex looks pretty fucked up in real life but it sure looks better on animation. Though, I have yet to see an animated version of vampire sex. Sadly, this is my first vampire sex. Thankfully, I'm not writing vampire sex in my novel project. That'll just be like bestiality or necrophilia. Ewww.

Pepe out!

† Jofer