Meanwhile, in Sparkly Vampire Fandom ...

[cupcake_goth]

Stephanie Meyer has made the draft of the first 12 chapters of Midnight Sun (Twilight from SparkleBoy's Edward's POV) publicly available. (clicky-link!) Because the draft had gotten leaked last week.

A quote from her post: I feel too sad about what has happened to continue working on Midnight Sun, and so it is on hold indefinitely. Hmmm, does that look like a classic symptom of the Great Flounce-Off to anyone else? (Rhetorical question, folks.) Any bets as to how long until the sparkly fans start up interwebs petitions begging her to finish it?


And, oh rapture, cleolinda has said she will recap the leaked chapters of Midnight Sun. Yaaaaay!

Comments

[schmi.livejournal.com]

Arggghh.... that book made me want to burn my brains out. I want those two hours of my life back.

[charmingmonstrs.livejournal.com]

What was that? I'm sorry, I couldn't see your post through the epic wall of flounce surrounding me...

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

It was only an incomplete draft; the writing is messy and flawed and full of mistakes.

What, her rewrite would have changed that?

[weaselmom.livejournal.com]

Oh SNAP!

[icprncs.livejournal.com]

Total flounce.

And I've heard some minor speculation that maybe she engineered the leak herself, because she was utterly shocked at the way people turned on her for Breaking Dawn, and this is either an attempt to show them how awesomely wonderful MS was going to be, or a way to get out of having to publish it and face more criticism. Admittedly, it's a stretch, but it's amusing to think about.

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

I've seen the same speculation, and I giggled quite a bit at the notion. I've also seen speculation that the leak was from the actor playing Edward, which would be even MORE amusing.

[maschalismos.livejournal.com]

You mean the same actor that said "And the more I read the script, the more I hated this guy, so that's how I played him, as a manic-depressive who hates himself. Plus, he's a 108-year-old virgin so he's obviously got some issues there."? Because, if so, I think I like this man more and more.

[ozitonaranjo.livejournal.com]

bwahahahhaha!

Link? I think I must read this. I got the same idea about Edward.

Though I must admit that despite those major flaws I still read the damn books like they were going out of style. Glad I waited until now to read them.

[maschalismos.livejournal.com]

Cleolinda gives a link to scans here (http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/637163.html?style=mine).

[ex-fashioni.livejournal.com]

Oh stop. She really didn't.

[sirriamnis.livejournal.com]

You know, I once thought the worst thing in the world would be to never get published.

I have since learned, repeatedly, that it would be to get something truly awful published and have that live on as my contribution to literature.

[stroppy-baggage.livejournal.com]

And by "contribution to" we mean "reeking stain upon"..?

Well, I certainly do, anyway.

[ex-pennydrea364.livejournal.com]

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[ozitonaranjo.livejournal.com]

I'd say about two seconds. Given the large number (and variety) of people she has sucked into that story... She doesn't stand a chance.


I'll have to mention this on my mommy message board. I guarantee they won't be shy about showing their disappointment. lol!

[deadrose.livejournal.com]

There's some speculation that the publishers turned it down. If so, the flounce might be an attempt to save face.

[ozitonaranjo.livejournal.com]

It's possible, given that it was an exercise to give the actor an insight into his character. However, David Eddings did pretty much the same thing (rehashing a story from a different character's POV) TWICE.

[cass404.livejournal.com]

And, oh rapture, [info]cleolinda has said she will recap the leaked chapters of Midnight Sun. Yaaaaay!

Nifty. I'd rather she read it than have to read it myself.

[smu.livejournal.com]

I think she did it herself, since Breaking Dawn was SO badly recieved. And it's more telling that she put the leaked draft on her own website. I mean, do bands go "hey, fuckers, you got the album a month early, but oh well, here it is on our front page now!"? Something is not right in Meyer land. Not that it ever has been.

I'm still bitter about Breaking Dawn, there, I said it. D: Reading cleolinda helped though