September 2009
Struggling Authors Take Note!
Don't Let The "Young Adult" Rating Fool You and
don't let the saga's Vampires & Werewolves theme
keep you from a really great read.
If you're a budding author, give yourself a treat and
take time to "study" this series to polish your skills!
When my daughter's friend bought me the first
Twilight book for my birthday last year (2009), I tried to be
honest and told her I really wasn't a fan of vampire stories.
She insisted it wasn't like the blood sucking horror flicks, and it wasn't just a "teen" story either. She continued begging until I agreed to give it a try.
For nearly half of the book I kept asking myself why on earth I was continuing to muddle through a high school romance. I'm a great-grandmother; trying to identify with a love-lorn teen was a struggle. I even tried to put it down once. But after a couple days I realized I really was curious about what was going to happen next.
I picked it up again and vowed to finish at least three more chapters before I gave up.
All of a sudden I was hooked! I couldn't put it down! I ordered the second book, New Moon, while I still had a quarter of the book to go.
Then I found the whole series in eBook form at Sony's eBook Store -- Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn -- and downloaded the whole works so I wouldn't have to wait again between titles.
It's not often that I find a story that entertains me that well. Putting it down for a while is like leaving in the middle of a movie. I think I understand now how people get hooked on soap opera TV.
This is pure reading for pleasure -- enjoying author Stephenie Meyer's style, pace, and ability to weave the characters into new fabric for four volumns. That's a skill that we, as crative writers, would do well to study.
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