Oh, it makes me sad that Winter is leaving. I don't know if you noticed, but I'm not usually one to prefer cold weather. I usually actually go through a sort of block during the Winter because I can't get outside and let nature inspire me. However, the cold weather, early nights, and leafless trees have been helping create my mood, since I'm now a Nosferatu freak.

Speaking of Nosferatu - it's funny that in my last entry I was trying to keep it a secret what I was working on when, really, it was one of my New Years goals:

Writing a spin-off about Count Orlok spending more time in Wisborg than he did in the movie, and using it to try seducing Ellen, despite Hutter's discomfort. The idea came about when I heard N'Sync's "Tearin' Up My Heart" and since then I've just gone nuts with it and laugh about the possibilities all the time. I don't even ship Orlok/Ellen or anything, I just think that his attempts to make her attracted to him, blatantly in front of her husband, is funny.

Yeah! That's what I'm doing! The series will be called Nosferatu in Love.

How do them apples sound? :D

I think it just gets right to the point and there's some value in that. Once you get to know the series, you see that "in love" is not what he really is, but it's as close to love as a vampire might get, I suppose. I originally thought "Orlok in Love" sounded cuter and more concise, but it wouldn't be as obvious what it was about. Most people don't even know his name is Count Orlok - they think his name is Nosferatu, so keeping that word in the title will help associate it immediately.

I was writing the details for it the other day and coming up with happenings. Mostly I've got happenings without structure, but I know one thing that helps me not to feel overwhelmed - there will be about 20 installments/episodes only. This could actually take me a while to finish, though - it's hard to say.

Preparation for this is going to be a complex deal even outside of writing it, though. As I want to play Count Orlok myself, I'm looking forward to improving my costume (this Spring Break I'm going to finally experiment with liquid latex), and there's a lot to do just by way of making him physically and verbally complex. Even though it sounds really dorky, I've been trying to come up with his gestures and movements in the mirror - it's been monstrous poetry! Truly, I think Herr Schreck used his body very poetically and I want to imitate and expand on what he did. Also, there's his voice. I'm getting the hang of talking as low as possible. To the side of that, I've been teaching myself German (because I already wanted to do it), and Romanian. The use of German as this character, I don't know yet. As for Romanian, I just want to have some useful words and swear words that he might throw out, and I want to be able to pronounce and read the language even without understanding it all together so that if I want to put full sentences into his dialogue (say he's muttering something) it wouldn't be out of the question for me to do that myself.

Phew! So welcome to my nerd-dom. Hope you had a nice stay.

Anyhoo, I've gotten going on CP4, the second part, and I want to write it charmingly. To not rush it and to pack it with love. When I stop being so tired (I'll probably take a nap soon) I will write the scene where Cosmo gets back his edited dating video and he learns they've made him a self-proclaimed "patron of sex".

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J