Twilight Author Bored With Vampires

[Bourne]

Having said that, I never really understood the criticism that "it violates established vampire cannon". Writers aren't under any obligation to follow how certain creatures were potrayed in past works. While established cannon can serve as a guideline, the author has complete freedom how any beings in his/her universe are depicted. If Meyer describes vampires as beings that glitter in the sunlight, then that is how they are potrayed in the Twilight universe.

Then they shouldn't be called "vampires". If you are going to use a giraffe in your story, it doesn't make sense to call it a giraffe to the reader, but then change everything they know about giraffes in the text... call it something else.

Vampires aren't some obscure fantasy race rarely written about, they are a long-standing tradition in horror fiction history, and have certain established traits that make them vampires... It has nothing to do with "artist" interpretation.

 

[Diligent]

She also wrote a book called "The Host" or something, and a description on the back actually says "It's Days of Our Lives meets The X-Files meets Survivor"...
All I could say was "WHAT?!?!?!"

I have a feeling that she doesn't have a talented writing bone in her body.

 

[Twilight.falls]

Gotta hand it to her, Mrs. Meyer was able to change everything we know about vampires.









For the worst.

 

[Cody211282]

So, in other words...

The moment she isn't writing from her Mary Sue self-insert's perspective anymore, she realizes her stories are boring?

Well, better late than never.

Only problem is now she is going to mary sue her way into something else, why the fuck wont this women stop writing?

 

[Tankdown]

Four books is news to me. I assumed the film adaptation was abysmal enough to bury the idea of a sequel.

Never underestimate flower power.

 

[ShoopDaToaster]

Does this mean Twilight is....over?
(oh please be over)

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Well it seems that Blade and Selene have finally done their jobs.

 

[Keela]

What a coincidence; we're bored with Twilight.

NEXT.

Okay, they've ruined vampires. On to space marines!

She'll have to wait her turn. The modern FPS has been spoiling those for the past five years.

Mass Effect...? That's still about a space marine, even though it's about the only game since before Halo to have the main character do something more than shoot aliens. Now you can fuck them too!

I want to see a decent vampire-based game that makes them manly for the five minutes between when you start playing it and when someone next mentions Twilight. Like what the movie Daybreakers did, just with more heavy metal and muscle cars to hunt the vamps with. Come to think of it, you could combine music and cars by blasting Linkin Park so that the vampires fall in love with your car and run towards it.

 

[IxionIndustries]

Okay, they've ruined vampires. On to space marines!

"...As his armor glistened and sparkled with the blood of a thousand heretics, Daedelus Augustus removed his helmet, revealing his slightly scarred, yet absolutely perfect face. Even when he yelled "PURGE THE WICKED!", his voice sounded like a choir of the Emperor's angels..."


Yeah.. That is absolutely amazing. She wrote characters so dull, that she herself got bored of 'em. I hope she just gives up writing after this, and doesn't move on to do some boring emo unicorn or some shit.

And I swear to the Gods in the heavens above, if she dares to even TOUCH zombie lore, I will cut her fucking hands off and shove them in her $&%*@&%......................

 

[ShoopDaToaster]

Time to ruin zombies!
Twilight of the Dead:
Chapter 1-
Sexy Zombys

And as he bit her skin off her neck,she knew she was his to keep,and he silently moaned into her ears and as the blood ran down her neck,she felt it and it was so good,him,in his tattered blood stained shirt,and his charred body,and rusty greenish skin,and her,a homely schoolgirl,together in a abandoned building in the middle of a giant city,all alone.

 

[Tom Phoenix]

Having said that, I never really understood the criticism that "it violates established vampire cannon". Writers aren't under any obligation to follow how certain creatures were potrayed in past works. While established cannon can serve as a guideline, the author has complete freedom how any beings in his/her universe are depicted. If Meyer describes vampires as beings that glitter in the sunlight, then that is how they are potrayed in the Twilight universe.

Then they shouldn't be called "vampires". If you are going to use a giraffe in your story, it doesn't make sense to call it a giraffe to the reader, but then change everything they know about giraffes in the text... call it something else.

Vampires aren't some obscure fantasy race rarely written about, they are a long-standing tradition in horror fiction history, and have certain established traits that make them vampires... It has nothing to do with "artist" interpretation.

Would changing everything we know about giraffes and still call them giraffes make sense? No. But that doesn't preclude the author from doing so, if he/she so chooses. Likewise, just beacuse there is a long-standing tradition as to how vampires are depicted, it doesn't mean that the author is under obligation to follow it. Meyer isn't the first author to try and redefine a fictional race in her own work in spite of tradition and she certainly is far from being good at it compared to others.

I am not saying you have to like how vampires are depicted in Twilight, I certainly don't like it. But Meyer has the right to depict fictional creatures in her universes how she wants them and call them how she wants them. Outside of not reading, buying or associating ourselves with her work, there is very little you or I can do about it.

 

[Joseph Harrison]

The reason that it's hard for her to right a book form the perspective of a Edward is because the book series is just a wet dream that she wrote herself into and she's not a guy.

Also: HA!

 

[crimsonshrouds]

When did stephanie meyer write about vampires? The only thing she has written about are emo fairies with fucked up eating habits and guys who can turn into animals at will.

to quote Stephen King. "Stephanie Meyer can't write worth a darn."

 

[Quiet Stranger]

Does anyone know a way to contact her??? So we can all say how bad of an author she is?

 

[Cain_Zeros]

She wrote a non-vampire book, which I don't think anyone ever read. It was called The Host, and it was about mind-controlling alien ghosts or something, and I was actually mildly interested in it, but I never got around to reading it, so I decided to make a post on The Escapist with a buttload of commas. Maybe I should check it oot.

I saw it and read the back. My first thought was "Invasion of the Body Snatchers knockoff".

 

[Infernai]

...If she dares touch Metal Gear Solid, there will be hell to pay (I know Kojima apparently admitted to liking it, but it doesn't really show in the later games so..yeah)

 

[Jumpingbean3]

Okay, they've ruined vampires. On to space marines!

I think space marines have ruined themselves already. The thought of Meyer writing a book about Halo of all things is going to haunt my nightmares for the rest of my life.

 

[Pearwood]

As a writer I find this extremely insulting...

As an amateur writer myself I can sympathise slightly, she's being unprofessional yes but if she wants to avoid being typecast that's fair enough. Personally though I believe that the hype over Twilight came as a surprise to her and let's face it if Twilight had the popularity of say the Hollows series it'd be considered fantastic for what it is. But yeah I think she was expecting just a relatively low success book that got far too popular for her ability as a writer and she's cracking under pressure.