Hush, Hush: The Story Behind The Story

[zelda_queen]

ZeldaQueen: So. We've trekked through the story itself, the acknowledgements, the jacket summary, and now it's time for the last bit of fail - Fitzpatrick's account of how she hatched this stinker of a fail tale. We all ready?

Comments

[carakasla]

Wait, so all the Twilight similarities are just...a coincidence? Uh huh...okay.

I'm confused. Didn't that writing class teach her the importance of PLANNING out the novel (or series) BEFORE you put pen to paper? Ah, well, with the level of tripe nowadays, it seems like everyone is ignoring that. Nice to know I wasted four years. I could have winged it and been published by now!

I could understand the 'going on hiatus and then getting the pull to write again' thing. I got that all the time. Know what I called that? Burnout.

Nice how she skipped over the story of how she got published...

[angel_renoir]

I used to go about my writing like that. Have people, have a VERY VAGUE IDEA of the setting, and bother about the plot later.

Until I realized that the "wing it" tactic is a big no-no. Nothing happens, and many pointless "it's for teh lulz!" scenes made their way into the story. And that's just awful.

[chibi_regalli]

I don't always have the exact events down, but I always know what I want to happen in the plot.

For instance, I'm currently planning a Nuzlocke comic run for Pokemon Black. Since I don't want to do the whole in-game run well in advance, I can't plan out everything that happens, but I do know what I'm doing with an overarching plot outside the game's storyline. I don't have the specific details, but I still know major events, and if I'm introducing a "mysterious" character, I'd damn well better know their secret before they enter the story!

Also, calling Patch a "bad boy" is like calling Jack the Ripper "rowdy". It's TECHNICALLY accurate, but it's also the understatement of the century.

... Also, I could totally see a reveal of Patch being Jack the Ripper.

[zelda_queen]

"... Also, I could totally see a reveal of Patch being Jack the Ripper."

Dude. That would be the PERFECT reveal, that Patch spent that time period running around England, stabbing and killing women he picked up off the street. That has got to be saved for fanfiction!

[chibi_regalli]

Added bonus if he reveals this as he decides he want that thrill back and pulls a knife on Nora.

Plus, there's a semi-popular theory that the Whitechapel killings could have stopped because the killer went to New York, as there was at least one similar murder there around the same time period. Well hey there, reason for going to America!

[emmram]

This account isn't very clear. She says she had a desire to become a writer when she was eight years old, and then she says she wrote a rough draft for a book "in a matter of weeks" the following autumn. Does she mean she wrote this when she was eight?!

I get what she means - but, yeah. She doesn't seem to be able to narrate even this coherently.

[often_partisan]

Just wanted to say congrats on finishing the sporking of this crap...
... well okay, the first book of this crap (why did this book need sequels again?)

[chibi_regalli]

Because the gods of YA literature are displeased? I can't see this happening without some serious malice towards readers everywhere, and I doubt even the most hardened, cynical editor would look at this and not go "do I REALLY want this abomination on my resume?"

I figure if we all make some little effigy dolls of the Twilight cast and burn them as a sacrifice, we might be able to purge the blight. Or at least vent some rage.

[aikaterini]

/ZeldaQueen: Does "Fairchild" have some meaning I'm not aware of? I'm sure it's coincidence, but that was also the maiden name of Clary's damsel-in-distress mother in the Mortal Instrument series