We write what we can write
Earlier today, on the phone with my mother, I mentioned that I had finally and reluctantly watched the movie version of Twilight with my co-sufferers -- er, best friends. And then, as we talked about my writing as we usually do, she once again suggested that I could "Just write commercial crap like Twilight that will sell easily to teenagers, then
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I haven't read your Twilight bashing post yet, but I am going straight to that after leaving this comment! I'm glad you have chosen not to compromise who you are for money. There are so many ways to do this these days, John and I often joke about it "Maybe I should just... and make us lots of money!" but we're always joking!
I have never read any of the twilight books and never seen the movies but for some reason I have this aversion to that crap that is so strong that you would think it ran over my puppy. Seriously, it sickens me. Maybe it IS the cult following that does it. Something that is THAT wildly popular among the sheep-like masses cannot possibly be good from a substance standpoint, it's just not possible. Every time I see someone wearing a Twilight shirt I just want to go up to them and go "Yeah, you're unique! Just like that mindless drone over there, and that one, and her too..." Also I have developed this policy as I have gotten older and understood the world more, I don't do people's advertising for them. Even if I did like Twilight (*shudder*) I would not buy the merchandise. I like Harry Potter and I don't own any of the merchandise. If I am going to be doing someone's advertising for them, I had better get a direct and tangible benefit, i.e. a paycheck! I learned this lesson from my grandmother as a kid, she used to HATE any t-shirt that had the name of the maker prominently displayed on it and I never got it back then. Now I do. I don't even own any band t-shirts that I wear outside the house.
Anyway, I've rambled enough. To sum up: I support your decision to not be a hack, and your hatred of Twilight!
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BINGO.
That is why I loathe it. If these books had not been suddenly gobbled up by a handful of romance-starved, screaming teenagers and hurled in the faces of everyone else in the country, I wouldn't have minded at all. It is the sheer mass stupidity of these feral fans that scares me. It is their absolute view that this is how love and life should be, oh my god I need a man like Edward that sickens me.
When JK Rowling was hurled into the spotlight a few years -- years, mind you -- after the first Harry Potter book was published, I imagined the surge of screaming fans must have been very unnerving. Now you can't turn around without finding someone willing to bury you in heaps of praise and theories about the Harry Potter books. I like the books, I find them cute and entertaining, but I was never blown away. The world-building really is incredible, but most of the characters and the choices of names still make me twitch.
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