Where do you guys begin when researching a topic for something you're writing?
Say I wanted to research vampires, should I start with Dracula, The Vampyre and then get text books, essays, etc?
>>7793721
Read books
Fuck that, if you're writing some silly genre fic shit make up your own mythos.
>Vampires
Grow the fuck up and write a real story, OP.
>>7793721
If it was me and I was writing about vampires, id just take the basic motive of a creature drinking the blood of another creature and just place it in a new context
Love the Buffy show. GOAT
If I wanted to research vampires I would kill myself.
JK.
No, I would start by looking into ancient myths and the origins of vampires instead of starting with modern interpretations, even Victorian ones. You're more likely to get something original that way, less influence of other authors.
Depends what you're doing, though. If you wanted to write something satirising or playing around with modern conceptions of vampires then yeah, read Anne Rice or Twilight.
