Twilight… Yes I read it.
Okay, I know it is a little weird for a guy to write Twilight, but I do anyway. I started reading it because I was curious about all of the talk about it. I needed to know for myself. I don’t see why people, more specifically boys, think twilight is just for girls. There are girl vampires too!
Okay enough of that. So I just bought Eclipse and I’m a sixth of the way in, so if you give any spoilers in the comments I will kill you! Anyway, so far, I’m rooting for Edward, and I hate Jacob. I know it’s strange for someone like me to put my two cents into this, but either way, I’m entitle to an opinion.
I do not see how anyone could like Jacob, he isn’t polite and his personality is never consistent. Edward on the other hand acts the same toward all people unless there is a justified reason to hate them. Edward is much better at controlling himself and he is definitely not as immature as Jacob. Jacob is just a little bipolar, perpetual fever, kid. When I’m in a relationship, Edward will be my inspiration and role-model.
Yes, Edward does keep a few secrets from Bella but it was only to protect her, and he promised not to keep anything from her again. Also, I would rather want to be a vampire and live forever with the one I love as equals rather than share a bed with a person who at anytime could turn into a giant wolf and crush by accident. At least when Bella is a vampire Edward will no longer be tempted to drain her blood vessels and they would be equally strong so he doesn’t have to be so self-conscious.
More over, the hole left by Edward is much deeper than the hole left by Jake. Obviously Bella loves Edward more. Also, if you haven’t seen the cover to Breaking Dawn, you are a slacker and need to open your eyes. As you’ll note the white piece is a queen and the red is a pawn. It can be argued that red means blood, that could mean that the queen a female piece without blood could arguably be Bella, while the red piece i the pawn and could possibly be Jacob, either way, I hope and pray that Bella will become “one of them.”
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Who do I Write for?
So this question is pretty important for a writer to consider. As a matter of fact, I write to no one but myself. If you don’t like what I write than you don’t have to read it. I believe that writer’s shouldn’t have target audiences, but readers should have target books. Why should I strive to meet a specific demographic standard? Why do I need to write for a person who I probably don’t care about?
I believe that readers should have target books instead. Everyone has their own opinion about what they read, why should I try to satisfy someone’s opinion instead of them satisfying their own? Why do I have to do all the work. As a matter of fact I don’t think about my target audience as another person, because if I did I would have multiple personalities. I don’t write for anyone but myself. I’m actually really glad that people chose to read my stuff, no matter how small of an amount that is, because that means their are people in this world with the same views as me. I am not alone.
You know what I also hate? How people categorize their styles and how people are prejudice about what books someone reads. It makes perfect sense for a girl to read Twilight, but when a boy does they just get pummeled with dirty looks and rude comments. It’s just perfectly acceptable for the nerd to read Harry Potter, but when the popular girl who no one expects starts singing wizard rock they all look at her funny.
The same goes for authors. I hate explaining to people why I write what I write. It is in my mind, I put it on paper, end of story. “But I always thought you wrote fantasy.” Can’t I write a small romance once it my life? I don’t like how people are placed in a social class by what they write or think. Yes I write a little fantasy, does that make me a D&D playing fanatic? NO! Yes, I sometimes write romance, does that make me gay? OF COURSE NOT!!
Why do we have to be so prejudice and why do authors have to sensor themselves for others?
(In case you were wondering, I got the idea for this post from Jake Miller in his post: here
Here’s where I talk about being lonely
And where I discuss more on Twilight
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Am I Overloaded?
Okay, big question for you all: Am I overloaded? It’s not even been a week since school was released and I already have THREE big projects to do. One: Read 15 books, two: write >50 blog entries, and now three: Learn to play the piano moderately well, and so far, I’m not doing so well. For instance, I have one maybe two camping trips in this month and then the summer is almost half over. This will be my 14th entry so far, so I’m doing pretty well with that: 14 out of 50 is 28%. Actually there are 84 days of vacation and in the past 6 I’ve written 14 entries, so at this rate I should have actually have around 190 entries!
I’m not worried about that, but right now it’s 12:55 a.m. and I’m only 100-ish pages into Eclipse, my first book. I don’t even have a formal list! Ah! I have to remain positive though. It doesn’t seem like I’ll have 500 page views in one day this summer at the rate I am going, but that Twilight post really upped my numbers. Maybe if I have a TON of posts and hundreds of tags I can be found easier. Normally that’s not necessarily a good thing, but for my purposes it is. I know I’m a nerd… FIGHTER!! Go nerd-fighters!
I REALLY want to learn the piano, not only is it in my mind the most logical instrument of all, but I have a keyboard so I could easily record music with it. For the longest time I have been obsessed, but not enough to have that kind of motivation.
I call myself “an anytime of the day person.” You know how people say they are either a morning-person, or a night-owl. I can be described as both in a way. If I can get up, within five minutes I have the same amount of energy that early as I do late at night. I’m not hyper I’m just consistent. The unfortunate fact is that I am incredibly difficult to wake up! I have to get up some motivation to wake up, because I feel that when I sleep until eleven thirty (*cough* everyday *cough*) I feel like the day has been wasted!
I commit to waking up at 8:00 tomorrow and starting the day fresh! (Even if that means walking around in the chilling morning air).
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