Twilight Author Bored With Vampires

[Plurralbles]

well, if she would have put some effort into her other works, maybe she wouldn't be so tired of htem because she'd be proud of her work...

 

[Dxz5roxg]

Well if you take away everything that makes a vampire a vampire you've just got a crappy book about guys that wear body glitter. At least this whole craze can go and die now.

 

[hyperdrachen]

I'm sure it's already been said but... how can you be sick of vampires. You never wrote about them.

 

[Tatx]

I'm not sure if this was said before but...
I was told by a twilight fan that Meyer admitted somewhere in an interview those weren't vampires or werewolves... and she just used those names. Maybe someone lied to me...

In theme, the incredible popularity of the series and etc, is ok. Honestly, what bothers me the most are the twilight fans that go around other places shouting to the world about how great Edward is.

I will be relived when/if she stops, and thankful if she keeps away from typical characters (Vampires, Wizards, Mummies, etc...) because if she wants to stay away from the stereotype of just writing about one thing, she might as well show us new ideas. (and hopefully keep far far away from the rest of the 'cool' stuff, while vampires try to recover from all the sparkles)

 

[Rakkana]

Serves her right. This is the price you pay.

Beware. Step on ninja territory and your death will swiftly follow.

 

[SCAFC Chimp]

Her next book will be blank, but the pages are psychic paper, like on Doctor Who. The paper reads your mind, finds everything you enjoy and hold close to your heart, then it completely fucks it up, ruining everything you like, making you a quivering shell of a man/ woman.

 

[Carnagath]

She doesn't want to be typecast

Oh, it's a little too late for that. The question is, is she good enough to escape it? Even harder, is she THAT good that she won't care because her work is obviously phenomenal?

Amusing anecdote time: When Stephen King was in his early twenties, he had already published Carrie and Salem's Lot, and went out drinking with his publisher in order to discuss his new draft with him, a book about a "haunted hotel" (The Shining). The first thing his publisher told him was "You're gonna get typed, Steve. You will be a horror writer forever." King replied "So what?". And then they got drunk.

But who am I kidding? Meyer is a terrible, terrible writer. I attempted to read her novels, but it was just too painful to bear. If I was 16 years old and I presented something written like that to my school teacher, he would give me a C.

 

[Folio]

Next up: furries!

Fur: Shaggy Rug is out now! The sequal of the popular Trilogy: Fur and Fur: Jiff Party!

 

[Random Argument Man]

I've seen a video on youtube explaining things about twilight. (Can't remember the name)

Edward was described at 100%. How Bella felt when she touched him, How he looked and so on.

Now, she's writing a book from Edward's perspective. I think that I've seen the big flaw here. Miss Meyer described her fantasies about a man, but she can't describe a woman.

 

[epsilon246]

Okay... let's not get ahead of ourselves.

A while back i tried to make it through the first book. everybody had told me it was a complete trashing of the vampire mythos (and it tottaly was). I got about 60 pages into that gorram thing and i could already feel my brain rotting

first off.

Seduction has ALWAYS been a part of Vampire lore. this is why vampires are so closly tied to sex .Most of the darker vampire stuff involves a vampire charming a girl taking her home and getting busy before sucking her blood and killing(or turing her)

So vampires being charming, ladys men was around way before Myers vommited all over it

and

reworking mythos is what keeps It so intresting. Vampires have been reworked in alot of ways(probably more then any other Mythological crature)

Let's Say you are putting a vampire in the book you are writting

is your vampire undead, or still alive. does he turn to into one bat, or alot of bats, or no bats at all. does he slowly die slowly in the sun, or does he burn up instantly. hell some even just simply become weaker in the son.

Why do they suck blood. do they have some sort of anemic condition where they lack iron, or are they actually just sucking the "life force"

I could go on and on

want me to run through the checklist of things that may or may not kill/harm your vampire(if anything).

I guess my point is we can't hate on her for trying to change vampires. all though myers was a dead shitty end. could you imagine how bored we would all be of vampires if they were still like dracula.

Now onto what we can hate. her boring ploting, her boring, flat, static characters. Her terrible detailing... Etc. I hate these books just as much as any of you. this book especially has made other lonely female authors start rushing out more of the same. I really wish they were not in exsitence

She then kills all that by making them sparkle, vampires don't need to be hurt by the sun but there is one key aspect of the mythos in all iterations they are creatures of the night and they detest the sun (especially aparent if they aren't vulnerable to it). Vampire mythos may be wide and varied, but this doesn't even come close. Never mind her attempting and failing miserably to justify the sparkles with science, which is my major bugbear with the series. I'm not going to go into detail but by trying (and failing) to apply science to one aspect of a supernatural creature you have to apply it to the rest of the aspects which becomes even more screwy. btw didn't intend to rant just kinda happened

 

[Giantcain]

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

uh....I hate to be the barer of Horrible news. But in the Indigo here i saw a alien Book By her.....FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU! lol.

OT: YAY! Maybe she will be hit by a car as well. Anyone who watches or made twilight HAS to have a lot of bad Karma.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Goldhawk777]

Thank GOD! Finally I can go to Burger King in peace and not have to decide between getting an Edward or Jacob cup. OMG!!! THEY ARE BOTH CUTE!!! WHICH ONE WILL SHE PICK????? AHHHH, MY TEENAGE GIRL HORMONES ARE GOING CRAZY!

*Vomits*
Enough. Soon, Harry Potter will go down the same road. Or, the next movie will be Harry Potter Pays College Tuition. I mean, what kind of career can a wizard get nowadays?

Oh wait.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8k7DIeyKMQ

 

[Jake the Snake]

I don't really even bother with this woman anymore. She has no talent. And she knows it.

 

[jthm]

I for one want Stephanie Meyer to keep writing about vampires. I want her to write about them until she looks back on the sheer sea of shit that is her literary contribution and weeps, like the Indian looking at the trash. Hopefully at that point she kills herself. I want her to write about vampires until she dies because as long as she does, we as an audience will appreciate a GOOD vampire story that much more. Every time I reread Bram Stoker's Dracula, I'm that much more entertained. When I remember how good Interview and Lestat were (disregard all other Anne Rice vampire fiction) it is made that much sweeter by knowing how bad it could be.

 

[Blueruler182]

How can she be bored of vampires? There are none in her books. That's like saying I'm bored of women.

Oh wait... An act of god! He is real! And he's stopped this atrocity from moving forward! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! The nightmare is ending!

On a serious note, here's hoping she's bored until she, and the raging horde of fangirls, forget about the series for the next sparkly man that walks by. Hopefully it's a pixie because that would be respecting the fucking source material.

 

[Bourne]

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.

I'm sorry, I became confused somewhere along the way. Are we arguing of the ability of an author to exercise freedom within their own writing? I don't remember ever saying that is unacceptable... My initial post only showed by frustration and contempt for the author for using the prestige of vampires and werewolves to craft a story about pent up sexual angst in teenagers, which I did and do not deem illegal, but merely loathsome.

I think it is a legitimate criticism, given that the vampires retain none of their distinguishing characteristics (save a thirst for blood), and instead acquire the ability to glitter, brood, and look really sad all the time because they are forever stuck in puberty.