Quote Originally Posted by gwahir View Post
I've seen you post about this on Facebook, and I have to ask, to what end are you writing this? Trying to write something that'll sell? I can understand that, even if I don't like it. (It also seems like a bad career move.) Trying to make a point? To whom will you make this point? If it does sell, it'll just be perpetuating the rodent shit standards that people en masse seem to have of literature -- not to mention the abhorrent kinds of values people could pick up from these books. Read your own criticism of Bella's character. This seems so be a useless exercise at best and a harmful one at worst.

You should be using your considerable talents to write something good and popular. It's not beyond you. We are in an age where shallow and shiny is popular, but making actually good stuff popular again is what authors should be doing. Reclaim literature's high standing, etc.
Yeah, I did start writing the self referential bullshit, but part way through, I decided to spin it and just write my own book that has a very loosely based premise on the Twilight Saga. I'm changing pretty much everything that I had originally planned - I mean, it still takes place in Spoons, and Beau Grace still falls in love with a witch named Esra who is immortal, but that's pretty much it. There's a human villain for Beau to take care of, as well as a witchy one for Esra to help with, and a few other things like that thrown around for good measure. It is taking the basic concept - developing an attraction for something unnatural, but I don't think I'd even mention the word 'love' in the book between to two characters.

We'll see.