vampires and twilight

a lot of people work online now...especially writers, i decided today that i will be one of them... here is a sample work i did for essays.ph as a registration piece...hope ill hear from them soon...topic: vampires, edward cullen & lestat de lioncourt..what dyu think of my work?...

Being a Vampire is the “IN” thing this generation!

For those who are clueless, vampires are night entities that are generally depicted as blood sucking beings that possess almost immortality.  They become such when humans are bitten by one and whose blood is fed to him/her hence transforming the lowly mundane to an extremely attractive creature of the night; vampires are nocturnal creatures and is usually described as fang-bearers, wooden stake fearers and can be killed by direct sunlight.

With the proliferation of almost countless novels from new and soon-to-be-elevated-to-celebrity-status writers that focuses on the world of these blood thirsty creatures of the fictional domain, kids and young adults today have been slowly but surely developing a lifestyle that gives these characters a spot in the limelight.  Although most of these books are understandably very similar in feel, there are those that have since then become not only familiar to bookworms but have become word of mouth. 

Decades after the cult following of Lestat de Lioncourt of the Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles in the 1990s, the hiatus was shattered several years ago when a then obscure title made a debut on the silver screen which has since then given a rebirth to the glamour of the fang clad crowd.  The Twilight series written by Stephenie Meyer not only captured the audience but made them all trek to the nearest library newly stacked with the recently popular tome and made readers of most of them.  Not only that but it catapulted obscure names to movie star status; nowadays who would not know who Robert Pattinson aka Edward Cullen or Taylor Lautner aka Jacob Black is?  Which teenage girl would not want to be Bella?

Twilight might be “the” vampire books that come to mind when the topic is introduced but then again, bookshelves are now slowly being crowded with other similar titles.  Almost all have their own following.  What of the well-liked Stackhouse novels; one of the first to become a television series that depicts the vamps as sexy, addictive and totally intoxicating in True Blood? The Vampire Diaries currently storming the small scene with impossibly gorgeous eyes?   Also worthy of mention are the titles in the series written by the mother – daughter tandem writing the popular enough House of Night series.

All these have fans if only for the number of books sold from countless bookstores across the globe.   And these are all about vampires!

But which of these have made a greater impact on the readers out there?  What world has captured the hearts and imagination of most?  Which night creatures have given them daydreams instead of nightmares as they should have had these personalities been real life?

The answer is all up to the billions of dreamers out there.  Simply concocting an alternate world of rather uncanny beings stunning to look at but could be pains in the neck.  For me, who wouldn’t want to dazzle and be magnificent; elegant and as only Twilight can describe, “Like sparkling diamonds in sunlight”.