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[kippurbird]

So, I read the sparkly paragraph of DOOM to my roommate. Half way through she started begging me to stop, nearly banging her head on the table. She went on to say, it's like bad fan fiction, how could anything like that be published?!

I like her!

Also, I think my dragons are replacing the "Dwarf" niche in my world. They're not too friendly with the Fey and they're smiths. Myths say that they created the world itself. I know they helped with the creation of wizards and witches.

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[notadoor.livejournal.com]

One day towards the end of Clarion (6 week genre writing workshop in San Diego, bootcamp for writers, lots of famous/award-winning alumni, yadda yadda) 2 of my fellow students and I escaped the workshop for pie. We ended up wandering into a bookstore as well. This was about two days after "Breaking Dawn" was released, so there was a biiiiig display of Meyer's books.

My buddy Grá walks up to the display. Picks up a copy of Twilight, reads the first two sentences, throws it back down on the display with a noise of disgust. Same with New Moon. Eclipse. By the time he picks up Breaking Dawn, he's practically sobbing.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

They have one in San Diego?!

I had a similar reaction when I picked up Twilight.

But still, I plunged on.

[notadoor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's actually the "original" Clarion (the one that started in Michigan in the late 60s) -- it got moved out to San Diego last year.

http://clarion.ucsd.edu/

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Spiffeh! Thanks! This makes getting there much easier as it's only a train ride away.

[berseker.livejournal.com]

I´m kinda wishing you´d take some time off Twilight to read Brisingr...

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Well, I want to finish Twilight first, because if I don't, I feel like I'll never finish it. Which would be bad. Also, it might take a while to get in the library system that I use.

[authoressarktos.livejournal.com]

I think I like your roommate too. XD

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Is she not awesome of awesome?

[authoressarktos.livejournal.com]

From that earlier reaction alone, I have no choice but to admit she is. XD

[dungeonwriter.livejournal.com]

http://chbookstore.qwestoffice.net/fa2006-08.html

Just give it to her to read. All will make sense.

[kellicat.livejournal.com]

I just read that article. Both Meyer and the interviewer scare me. How can Bella be considered a 'wonderful fictional character'? The part that gets me the most was how she was complaining that nobody UNDEEEERSTOOOOD her dear Edward and how HAAARD it was for him. Spare me the pity party.

[dungeonwriter.livejournal.com]

Well, honestly, no person will have the same perception of a fictional character as another person, even the author. It's like how JKR most likely didn't like Percy Weasley, but I found him reminding me of myself in high school before I got friends and mellowed out. Different characters will strike different people. She should get that no one will ever write her vision of Edward, without getting pissy. And hmm, be immortal, youthful, rich, super strong and with a loving supportive family? Anyone want to take up a collection?

" So I'm not at all informed about the horror genre, and I don't think it's influenced my writing." No...because what do vampires have to do with horror? I mean...it's not like they're usually linked.

"I've never considered Twilight a horror novel, though. To me, it's a romance." Harlequin variety!

"Bella Swan is a wonderful character—she's strong, but she's also extremely vulnerable and confused." If someone can name one strong thing about her, I'll be amazed. And dating a vampire isn't strong, it's suicidal.


"in other ways she's a much better person than I was. I wish I would have known someone like her when I was seventeen. She would have been a good person to be friends with."

Name one good thing she's done. And befriend a vampire? See above comment. This girl has no friends, no family, has not contacted her parents, and has no hobbies. What makes her good?

"Edward is too perfect to exist in reality." That is not something to be proud of.

"the Edwards were all flat wrong. No one seemed to have any idea of how difficult it was for him to live the way he does. It upset me a bit—I felt like Edward wasn't getting enough credit."

Well, maybe you should have given him more personality or indicated it was difficult. Only Eddie Munster is a mind-reader. If rabid fans don't get him...maybe that's your fault.

"I have these perfect men in my head all the time, but every time I get up from the computer and step out of the writing haze, I have to realize yet again that (despite what my husband says) none of them are real. It breaks my heart over and over again. Yes, definitely I deserve the most pity."

No, the teenage fangirls who are in for a life of disappointment and possible abuse in the name of love deserve pity. You get 400K book deals. I have no pity.

[faded-enmity.livejournal.com]

"BS: Because of the perfection of the Cullen boys and Jacob, you have ruined the women of Changing Hands as well as women across the country for other men. Do you feel bad at all?"

This is the part that disturbs me the very most. I hope to God that this person is not a professional journalist.

My icon is my attitude toward both Smeyer and the interviewer.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid of traumatizing her even more. I like her as a roommate and bodies are SOOO difficult to get rid of.