Hello, anyone remember me?. It 's been almost a year since I posted something here. This yeas has been a nightmare.
I´m working on the spork for Idhún's memories that I talked about a long time ago, but meanwhile I decided to share my thoughts with you in an advice that I've seen thrown around a lot lately, and see your opinion about it.
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This might be a topic which has been discussed to the point of ad nauseum but thought I'd just share an amusing clip of how Pattinson reacts to the Twilight series by SMeyer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcv1P1GI1jc

It's a good bet that most of us here who write, write fantasy, science fiction, or other speculative work.  This post should apply regardless of genre.  It came to mind when I was responding to the post about the Hero's Journey and I caught myself starting to make a lengthy comment about characters being more ordinary vs. extraordinary.  I finally ( Read more... )

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Just something you might find interesting.

In the wake of the news that Paolini is meeting with his editor about the Sci-Fi Brick, or "TSiaSoS," my brain made a rather unsettling leap. I have made some pretty bizarre mental connections in the past, but... I legitimately think this is a pattern ( Read more... )

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I don't really have much to add to this, besides the fact that it's funny.
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This is brilliant.

And wanted to see what you all thought:

http://texts-from-edward.tumblr.com/

Still in the infancy stage, of course, but I've received good feedback thus far. I've been batting around a Twilight project for some time now, which I've been putting off because I don't have time and it would be an obscene amount of work, and so I put some of the material ( Read more... )

As we see throughout the entire Twilight series as well as her infamous comments about New Moon, Meyer is very good at the art of brainless arrogance. She compared her books to a number of other pieces in an attempt to not only seem intelligent but to also make it seem like she wrote better than all these people. The authors she thinks she’s better ( Read more... )