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To create a vampire in your story you must come up with what you want for them. Every author, playwrite, or movie producer writes their vampire diffrently. Dracula was the first vampire book ever PUBLISHED, but stories about vampires have been around since the stone age. since Dracula is our first known subject i will start with him.
Let's take a little history lesson first shall we?
The first issue of the book on our good friend Count Dracula was releised in the year 1897 by Archibald Constable and Company. The Author, Bram Stoker, was the first to publish a book on the folk lor that surrounded the count. In 1996 the movie titled "Dracula", staring Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder was releised in theaters.
Vlad III the Impaler, also known as Vlad Dracula was Prince of Wallachia, a former polity that is now part of Romania. His three reigns were in 1448, 1456–62, and 1476. While In the English-speaking world, Vlad is best known for the exceedingly cruel punishments he imposed during his reign and for serving as the primary inspiration for the name of the vampire main character in Bram Stoker's popular Dracula novel, in Romania he is viewed by many as a prince with a deep sense of justice and a defender of Wallachia against Ottoman expansionism.
(all information on Vlad III is given by Wikipidia)
Ok history lesson over, now lets get to the good stuff.
Seeing as Count Dracula was the first, all vampires are based off of him in one form or another. for instance, all vampires in any book on vampires drink blood. it is the one common factor between them all. (not including their looks.)
So, to begin writing a story with a vampire you need to chose a few things.
1. How are they created?
Vampires have to come from somewhere right? It's your choice how they're made. is it a genetic fault, or magic? You chose.
In Bram Stoker's, Dracula, Vampires all started out with Dracula. A person must be bitten, then suffering from the illness, killed to become one of the "Undead."
Like i said before, your vampire can be created however you chose. there are millions of possibilities out there. be creative 
2. how do they feed?
Well, everyone has to eat. Vampires in most books can only feed off of human's. however, in other books such as the ever popular Twilight, ANY type of blood will suffice. You also have to take into acount what happens when they feed. Does the person need to die, or can they live without becoming "undead"? Once again most of this will be your choice. however Most vampires in books keep the symilarity that they drink blood.
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