Originally posted by Trickster
Apparently though Queen of the Damned doesn't follow the storyline of the book...Anyway, just say a thread called Interview with a vampire, and I jst wanted to tell you guys, though you probably don't want or need another contributor, I'll be reading what you write!
We are both quite aware that QotD movie does not follow the book. Although it may not, I would still like to do a sequel for it. Jenni and I aimed to to base your Vampire Chronicles fanfiction upon the movies and not the books from the start. Not bothering with the books, but remaining faithful the books as we can. Saves us time and effort on our parts as writers. We wouldn't get anything done if we both or one of us had to read the books and do the fics too. Too much effort. You see what I'm drivin' at here?
Anyways, Trickster, thank you for the support as a dedicated reader of ours, as always. *Hugs* (By the way, did you read the first section/part to Chapter Three of Dead Man Walking yet?)
Hey Jenni and Trickster, check out what I posted in Vampy's The Vampire Chronicles thread. Scroll towards the bottom of the page until you get to the long list of links that I posted there, above the huge image of Louis. (Also, Jenni, if you would like, I can have SlayerChick188 or someone who can alter pictures, make a little cover for our story here and for the sequel in the future, too!)
Alright, here's a sample of an image from Lestat le Vampire :
*Looking through this site's galleries right now, is getting me thinking. This place has tons of great screencaps, maybe we could choose some and I can post them inbetween certain story bits of ours to kind of illustrate the story here and there. Maybe. But we don't have to. Just a thought*
Re: Queen of the Damned & Crimson Rose II?
Originally posted by BOPRecruit 16
I already have a well developed idea of how I want to do my bit. Basically, I'll end the section of the story where Louis has returned to America and gets to sleep for the day. Then once I close the case of the opening sequence to the story, then we can move onto the next one, like I already went over with you earlier.Oh, by the way...Have you seen Queen of the Damned, the movie? I saw it on Halloween on USA. I don't think you get that channel, after all, it's a US channel, more say. Anyways, QotD was better than I had expected it to be and had pros and cons about it. But, over all, an interesting movie. If you haven't seen it yet, I won't try to spoil the plot for you. Just want to say this, I was highly amused by the fact that Lestat has become a rock star. It ceases to amuse me, that is, no matter how many times I hear about it. LOL
After seeing QotD, it inspired and motivated me for ideas and such for future original stories, fanfictions, and much more...a possible sequel for Crimson Rose/ Interview with the Vampire & Queen of the Damned! I already have a rough brainstorm of the over all plot for it, too. I'll discuss with you more about it another time. Also, I hope, depending on whenever we complete this story, we'll get the chance to do the sequel before I leave for college or something. Would be great fun.
Oh, one more thing...please see Queen of the Damned!
Image Source: Google Image Search for "Queen of the Damned": http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.christopherpayne.com/queen.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.worth1000.com/cache/gallery/contestcache.asp%3Fcontest_id%3D1522&h=815&w=550&sz=299&tbnid=gpQ-QQuIIgwJ:&tbnh=140&tbnw=95&start=13&prev=/images%3Fq%3DQueen%2Bof%2Bthe%2BDamned%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D
i haven't seen Qotd.....although, I would like to...hell, I wanted to see it when it first came out....
😊 sounds cool to me....
lol....i will try...
End of Opening Sequence (Section I)
Here's My New Story Bit
As the two of us ascended the stairway, my curious eyes roamed the walls flanking my sides, taking in my surroundings. The tall blanks of furnished wood were decorated with replicas of famous works of art that I had seen many times during my stay in Europe. From the high ceilings above, the glowing flames upon the candles would shine through the crystal of the chandelleirs. Beaming down the dancing rays of light to sparkle throughout the hallway. The Inn Keeper lead me past many doorways, their wooden frames carved into complicated shapes. So caught up with my observation that my feet neglected to warn me to come to a sudden halt upon the red velvet carpet, where the mortal man had stopped, and nearly ran into him. I mumbled a quick, awkward apology as I corrected my posture beside him. "Quite alright, young sir," was my reply, plus that signature smile of his. He lifted his occupied hand and inserted the golden key into the knob, then turned to unlatch.
Before he took a step forward to open the door, the Inn Keeper turned to me and said, "You will be staying in this room here, number seven." The elderly gentlemen moved forth and stood to the side to allow me passage. "Number seven is a room for singles and couples on their honeymoon..." When I heard that last word, I gave him a strange look. "Oh, don't worry, sir. This room is perfectly sanitary, if that's what you're worried about. Heh heh!", continued the Inn Keeper, with a nervous yet energetic chuckle and a silly grin plastered upon his wrinkled face. "Erm...Anyways...your room has a balcony that looks over our Inn's garden and the nearby courtyard beyond it." He pointed across the room before me, then closed the door behind us. Shifting his point to the east section of the room, "That window there looks over the street in front of the property."
The windows he spoke of were made of clear and very pale green stained class that were arranged into a squared pattern. As for the frames of the window, were covered by dark, navy blue satin curtins that would billow in the wind, if I ever needed to feel the evening's cool, gentle breeze upon my still flesh. "And, to your left in the next room, is the bedroom." The Inn Keeper guided me over there to show me what he was talking about as he went along explaing things to me. "As you can see, the bed is king sized, four poster. Large enough to fit two people...or less in your case. All of the rooms on this side of our establishment have four posters because this is the direction that the sun rises and makes itself known." The four poster was framed with a finer looking type of carpentry, lighter than the doors and wooden floors. Four errect poles had carvings of wildlife and nature upon their inanimite flesh. The curtains suspended from the top of the frame were drawn back and made of the same thick velvet as the floors in the hallway. My eyes narrowed in thought at the sight of those.
Tucked away in the far corner, near the window sill, was a cosy wardrobe with a mirror and washing station atop of it for the morning preperations. Not far to the left of the bed, from my angle at the doorway, there was a smaller, seperate part of the room that was the lavatory. Of course, I would never need to use that unless I had consumed some bad blood, which never happened either. The Inn Keeper at my side watched me with patient eyes, allowing me time to take this new environment in. When I looked to him, he brightened up once more. "Well, young sir, this is one of the rooms with the best view. You most certainly had impecable timing before they all got booked. Considering that it's so early in the morning. Can you believe that there are still people partying out there?" He threw a furtive glance towards the tinted window, "I'm just glad that most of them are a few blocks away, not enough to disturb my guests!" The Inn Keeper raised his arms up and down before landing them back at his hips.
"Well, now, that completes your brief tour of this room," he continued, waddling his way back over to the entrance door. Pulling back the door and standing in the middle of the frame work, the Inn Keeper handed me the twin set of keys to room number seven. "Forgive me for asking and then forgetting that I had asked earlier, but...How long shall I be expecting you to stay?" A small, amused smile spread across my once grim set face. "Since you have been so kind to me and having estimated how little of my old hometown that I have seen thus far, I would like to stay for a few days to a week or so. Is that alright?" I asked. The latter nodded in response and returned my warm smile. "Aw, so you are a fellow New Orleaner? What's your name, young sir?" He looked at me, eager for the answer as I nodded to his first question and then hesitated a fraction at the next.
I was hesitant to give away my name at first, fearing that he may recognize it. But, I mulled this over for a bit and realized that none of my relatives lived close to New Orleans nor lived in the state of Louisiana for that matter. Plus, I haven't been here since I was a mortal, nearly two hundred years ago. People whom I once knew, should already by dead, long gone by now. So, what was the harm? "Louis," came my deep voice, just above a whisper. The Inn Keeper just smiled, with no hint of surprise in his posture. "Your family must have immigranted from France long ago, no?" I nodded to concurr his question. Indeed, ages ago. "Well, Louis, welcome back to New Orleans and the Redway Inn! May you enjoy your stay with us."
"I will do that," I replied, curtiously. The Inn Keeper flashed me one last sincere, welcoming smile before he took his leave from my prescence and shut the door closed behind him. As his heavy foot stops faded into the distance of the hallway, I turned to face the living room. It was the typical sort that I had expected, a magnificant fire place, low tables for meals, and furniture made of the finest material that the Redway Inn could affort. Suddenly, I cast my gaze upwards through the window across the room. I could see the darkness of night growing fainter as the sun was slowly making its way to the horizon. Shades of ebony dying away to become a deep shade of blue known as sapphire. Although that wasn't truely anything to be alarmed about, meant to me that I shouldn't dawdle about the room with the curtains drawn back. I marched my way across to them, enveloping the edges of the room into darkness. The lamps placed about the tops of furniture, I snuffed them out with my bare fingers, not taking the time to wet them like in the days of my mortal youth. With this section bathed into shadow, I swept over to the bedroom and stood by the bed side. Taking a moment to think over how I was going to tend to my sleeping arrangements.
Seeing as that I had neglected to bring my coffin back from France, I would have to make do and just sleep in the four poster with the curtains drawn close together. Plus, keep the curtains of the windows closed at all times during the day, which reminded me to remember to tell the Inn Keeper that. I would just make up a quick, simple excuse that I slept odd hours during the day and needed my privacy at any rate. Besides, I have just gotten off a two to three month long boat ride here. But, that would have to be saved for later. I could feel my body succumbing to the universal sensation of sleep. With every minute I took to think my sleeping arrangements over, the more time the sun would get to rise and my exhaustion grew dire.
My senses and train of thought were becoming most difficult to focus, so I decided to appease this. I reached out and drew back a blood red curtain. Gazing in, I noticed it was nice and dark in there. No sunlight could harm me. I carefully lowered myself onto the matress and beneath the covers. The springs of the bed beneath me, growned from the additional weight. I sighed heavily, feeling my tense muscles relax and conform to the soft terrain of it all. What a deep, soothing sensation this was, to relax upon a soft bed. A simple pleasure in life that I hadn't felt in years since that faithful night, when I had been lying in bed, dying, to have Lestat come forth and give me enternal life. Consciousness was slipping as I adjusted my head upon the feather stuffed, silk pillows. I was enveloped in darkness, but a comforting darkness. Not as restricting as a coffin, so this was a great improvement to me beyond belief. I had more room to move about in. Feel as though I were free from that wooden prison, in some way. As my lids were slowly coming down, drawing me down into a deep sleep, two people flashed across my mind. One with a dark soul and gold, platinum blonde hair. The other was of great beauty. Her eyes as dark as the twilight, with hair like the darkest hours of the night, clashing with the dusk.
Author's Note: Sorry that it took me so long to get to this and wrap it up. I was working very diligently on wrapping up this first section, opening sequence, of the story. That's why I didn't respond to you sooner. Let me know what you think of my bit and let me know if you have any questions, too.
Re: Re: Queen of the Damned & Crimson Rose II?
Originally posted by RagingSilent
i haven't seen Qotd.....although, I would like to...hell, I wanted to see it when it first came out....
😊 sounds cool to me....lol....i will try...
Same here, wanted to see it the first time it came out, even though I had no knowledge of the Vampire Chronicles nor was I a huge fan of vampire, bloody movies at the time. Looks very interesting and had Aaliyah in it. She was a wonderful actress with such potiential. Such a sad time when she died in that plane crash, cutting her life tragically short. Aaliyah would and is most certainly missed.
After seeing the movie, I might get it on DVD the next time I go to Tower Records.
I hope you go to see it soon, Jenni! 😎
RagingSilent: cool pics boppy👆.........you have a good idea🙂..slayerchick does awesome work....
A good part of my time online, was spent hunting down all of those sights that I listed on my xanga site and that vampire chronicles thread. That one sight in particular, Lestat le Vampire, had the best and most screencaps out of all of those links. Lots of drool worthy pix to stare at for hours and to use for a new theme for my xanga in the near future. By the way, did you check out the rest of that site or sites on that list I mentioned? As for hiring SlayerChick, we don't have to, but can considerate if you and I want to do such a thing as a mock cover/poster/banner.
Originally posted by BOPRecruit 16
We are both quite aware that QotD movie does not follow the book. Although it may not, I would still like to do a sequel for it. Jenni and I aimed to to base your Vampire Chronicles fanfiction upon the movies and not the books from the start. Not bothering with the books, but remaining faithful the books as we can. Saves us time and effort on our parts as writers. We wouldn't get anything done if we both or one of us had to read the books and do the fics too. Too much effort. You see what I'm drivin' at here?Anyways, Trickster, thank you for the support as a dedicated reader of ours, as always. *Hugs* (By the way, did you read the first section/part to Chapter Three of Dead Man Walking yet?)
My FanFic?
I'm afraid I don't find the Dead Man Walking story as enthralling, but for you Boppy, I'll read it. 😛 *hugs* Anyway, enough interuppting. You should ask for your actual story posts to be moved into a new thread...
Originally posted by Trickster
My FanFic?I'm afraid I don't find the Dead Man Walking story as enthralling, but for you Boppy, I'll read it. 😛 *hugs* Anyway, enough interuppting. You should ask for your actual story posts to be moved into a new thread...
Are you asking me what fanfic(tion) is? 😑
Dead Man Walking will get better with each new story post and chapter, when I get around to them. Trust me. So sorry to hear that you don't like it as much as Crimson Rose here.
Seems like you haven't noticed, but...I do transfer the story posts in here to a thread titled "Crimson Rose". The link is in my siggy and the multiauthor arena. Check that out. Little slow on the uptake there, Trick! 😛 😆 J/K
Anyways, you began to leave comments way late after Jenni and I had started this discussion thread. To keep you informed here, she and I discuss the story, post our story bits, we approve each other's story bits before we decide to finalize them by posting in the story thread, and then i post them in the story thread for all to see. Easier to read and sort through the story than this having readers read it here, like you were doing, mister! 😛 😆
Quick Note to Jenni/RagingSilent: The reason I did that long story bit for I wanted to hurry up and wrap up the first sequence to the story. That way, we can get on with the story and move along faster. Blah blah, stuff like that. In other words, "speeding up production, a tad".
(Also, I'll wait until you comment and approve of my new long bit, then I'll post it in the story thread. Let me know if you have any objections to any part of it!)
Really? 😑 I said that? 😑 Huh...must've been pretty damn tired or something not to catch that...I do tend to make a lot of typos. As you can tell when you read the story bits and my story threads, there are tons. I use microsoft word most of the time. i copy stuff from kmc that are parts of my stories and then make corrections there in the document. so the errors aren't corrected by the time their finalized in the story thread. sorry about the confussion there, trick!
Cast Over for Role of Cassandra Black
To: RagingSilent
Subject: Tift Merritt as Cassandra Black
(Image Source: http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/merritt_tift/flipbooks.jhtml)
While I was doing homework yesterday and watching a music video marathon on CMT (The Country Music Channel), I found the perfect person to play Cassandra Black. After seeing the music video for Good Hearted Man by Tift Merritt, I knew she would be perfect for the role. She's in her late 20's, about 29 to be exact, and has the perfect face structure and so forth in the looks that I wanted Cassandra to look like. No flaws in my imagination that she's the perfect Cassandra. When my choice was Julie Roberts, I only wanted to feature her when she had her hair done nicely and wearing make up. But I wasn't satisfied with that choice and it bugged me. After picking Tift as my final choice, the understudy type choices went out the window. Such choices as LeAnn Rimes and Charlize Theron. Also, Tift would be perfect as Cassie in the other fics that I was going to feature her in! If you would like to learn more about her and check out her music, see the links below...
Links
CMT.Com: Tift Merritt: Artist Main
Tift Merritt (Official Site)
*Note: Another good reason that I chose someone to play Cassandra, is to help you and me to put a face to a name and character. Aide in description later on, that sort of thing.*
for starters, excellent story bit boppy, you've outdone yourself👆👆..😄....
secondly....as for my bit.you said you had ideas, now i dont know if you've mentioned these, because i briefly scanned over the last few posts...lol....
now, as for ur pic of the chik....lol.i think she wud suit cassie well🙂..cept for her features, such as hair n eye color n such....but that can be changed to how we want it to look😊.so no problems..
i was waiting for you to approve that new bit i did before i posted it. for a quite a while. i've been patient. *cough* 😆 😛
yes, there are tons of ideas that i wanted to tell you about. but i never posted them because i wanted to wait until we were online at the same time. easier to talk it over and you can get your say in it too.
no shit her hair doesn't go. but it was her looks that got my attention for her to play cassie. of course, there is no celeb with blue streaks in hair and has black hair that i could find. and didn't want to find a no name person...so don't give me crap that she's not perfect just cause of her hair!!! 😠 😆 😛
*omfg! when and after i posted my new bit, i just noticed that i made an error in the title of the story thread! it says "interview the vampire", no 'with'! 😱 *gasp* i got it right everywhere else i did the link but not in that place! >,<*
