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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Same thing with John's vampire novels: We lived in different rooms of the same house when he wrote two of them, and he was pale and shaken during the process because what he was really writing about were his own addictions, his own experience of evil and redemption in the world.
All of which are about as far from the pandering of Twilight as you can get.
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As with everything, you will do well when you write about what you know. Yeah, a cliché but not untrue.
The big thing that is coming from this thread is the fact that Meyer's has undermined the very trope she wrote about and has done the whole subject a disservice. The fact that she became popular and then rich from that is just more vinegar for the cut. Stings.
As I said in my first post, it will just take patience. This doesn't have legs. In 5 years this will be so passé it is laughable.
What intrigues me right now is the rise of the zombie film. I'm not seeing it in literature but the visual media is going gaga and I can't figure out why. What is so appealing all of a sudden? What do zombies represent in pop culture? Soulessness? Lack of religion? Corporate hegemony killing the culture? Remorseless idiocy destroying us? Hmmmm.