Feb. 23, 2012 at 10:10pm with 9 notes
Reblogged from litreactor
litreactor: Despite all the jokes about sparkly vampires and brain-dead storytelling, Stephenie Meyer is much, much richer than you.  How does that make you feel?  So. Anyone who knows me knows my loathing of Twilight. I’ve tried to read the first one twice, and both times I thought to myself how I could instead just search keywords like “sad,” “lonely,” and “vampire poetry” on Livejournal and retrieve literature of about the same quality. I’m also sad that she basically took vampire mythology and said, “It’s nice. No, really, it’s so nice…but it’s just not for me.” Then, she put it in a bucket and pooped on it. That being said…I have to admit that she took the time to put that garbage on paper, bundle it up and send it out. She happened across fame and fortune just as many others do (not to sound mean, but I feel the same way about Stephanie Meyer as I do that chick who recently became popular for making a load of money on her ebook). If anything, it’s reassuring, because it means somewhere out there are people who will read what you write. There is a place for your work just like there is a place for you. If you’re willing to work to find it, you’ll find success. And if that place is crafting something for the lowest common denominator, good on you, I suppose.

litreactor:

Despite all the jokes about sparkly vampires and brain-dead storytelling, Stephenie Meyer is much, much richer than you. 

How does that make you feel? 

So. Anyone who knows me knows my loathing of Twilight. I’ve tried to read the first one twice, and both times I thought to myself how I could instead just search keywords like “sad,” “lonely,” and “vampire poetry” on Livejournal and retrieve literature of about the same quality.

I’m also sad that she basically took vampire mythology and said, “It’s nice. No, really, it’s so nice…but it’s just not for me.” Then, she put it in a bucket and pooped on it.

That being said…I have to admit that she took the time to put that garbage on paper, bundle it up and send it out. She happened across fame and fortune just as many others do (not to sound mean, but I feel the same way about Stephanie Meyer as I do that chick who recently became popular for making a load of money on her ebook).

If anything, it’s reassuring, because it means somewhere out there are people who will read what you write. There is a place for your work just like there is a place for you. If you’re willing to work to find it, you’ll find success.

And if that place is crafting something for the lowest common denominator, good on you, I suppose.

  1. duncanpr reblogged this from keyboardsanddarkness
  2. keyboardsanddarkness reblogged this from litreactor and added:
    So. Anyone who knows me knows my loathing of Twilight. I’ve tried to read...first one...
  3. kokamon reblogged this from litreactor and added:
    It makes me feel awesome, because...means I’ll be super rich when I sell my book, too....
  4. oliveryeh said: It doesn’t. Because the factor you’ve used in your assumptive comparison doesn’t relate to me. If you had used the factor of writing quality, I would have been reeling from the kidney punch.
  5. litflicker said: Pissed off. But then again, I’ve read proper literature like Thomas Hardy’s ‘Jude the Obscure’ and Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’…so I know that life is shit, universal justice is non-existent, and capitalism has killed us all.
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