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5 Things You Need To Know About Twilight


Love it or hate it - and judging by your comments, most of you are in the latter camp - there's no escaping the fact that Twilight is already one of the most anticipated movies of the year, and may become one of the most successful, as well. Because we know that you're all about keeping up with the zeitgeist, we're giving you five things you need to know about the emo vampire series that's already taken over bookstores, MySpace, and the heart of your little sister.



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1: The Books Are Popular. Very Popular.
Sure, we're not talking Harry Potter levels yet - despite the many comparisons that Twilight has drawn to the wizarding series, mostly because it's a popular young adult series of novels that's transcended its target audience - but 17 million book sales in the three years since the release of the first book is still nothing to be sneezed at, and the books have collectively topped the New York Times bestseller list for close to a year. Face it; more people have read this than anything that inspired Iron Man.

Not to put to much pressure on the movie, but people are already writing about the way in which Twilight The Movie unites women of all ages in their lust for the franchise:


Let me introduce you to one of the most powerful new groups in Hollywood. It's not a group of actors, producers or directors. It's the rather interesting hybrid demographic who are getting their knickers in a twist over Twilight, due to be released in the UK next month... Teenage girls, young female adults and their mums converged at the Twilight conference at Comic-Con back in July, filling Hall H to capacity and rupturing tonsils at the appearance of their hunkalicious hero.

Believe me, this demographic is out there. They just don't have a name yet.

They're naming themselves, however; there are fansites called Twilight Moms (and its related site, Twilight Teens - and also Twilight20Somethings, just in case you don't fit into either of the previous two) as well as Team Jacob, Team Edward, Team Switzerland and even Team Twilightist amongst many others out there, each one a demonstration of obsession with the novels' familiar tale of a boy, a girl and the unspoken love that dare not speak its name.

2: The Books Aren't Very Good.
Critical reception to Twilight, the first book in the series was marginally positive (Booklist's "There are some flaws here—a plot that could have been tightened, an overreliance on adjectives and adverbs to bolster dialogue—but this dark romance seeps into the soul" being essentially the tenor of most mainstream reviews), but each successive book received poorer reviews, with Breaking Dawn, the final book getting drubbings from the LA Times ("The problem is Stephenie Meyer is no J.K. Rowling... We would have much preferred the whole thing to end in book three, "Eclipse," with yes, some happiness for Bella, but also some angst, some heartbreak, and a dark, ominous future looming"), Publisher's Weekly ("[G]randeur is out. This isn't about happy endings; it's about gratification") and Entertainment Weekly ("[You'll] abruptly lose all patience when... Meyer takes her supernatural love story several bizarre steps too far"). We may be biased, but sister site Jezebel came up with our favorite review:


It's 754 pages long, its heroine's dominant personality trait is low self-esteem, and, as Amazon reviewer Eventide points out, nobody really has to give up anything. Even the tedium of immortality is glossed over — these vampires just keep busy with their hobbies. If I had an eternity to read, I still might never pick up this book again.

3: The Writer Can Be A Bit Of A Prima Donna.
Although the Twilight series officially finished with the fourth book, Breaking Dawn, there was a fifth book planned, Midnight Sun, that would've retold the events of the first book from the hero's perspective. But then a first draft of the book's opening appeared online, and author Stephenie Meyer posted this response on her website:


I did not want my readers to experience Midnight Sun before it was completed, edited and published. I think it is important for everybody to understand that what happened was a huge violation of my rights as an author, not to mention me as a human being... So where does this leave Midnight Sun? My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math; in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes everything. If I tried to write Midnight Sun now, in my current frame of mind, James would probably win and all the Cullens would die, which wouldn't dovetail too well with the original story. In any case, I feel too sad about what has happened to continue working on Midnight Sun, and so it is on hold indefinitely.

(She's since recanted slightly, telling Entertainment Weekly that "[t]he funny thing about that statement is I didn't actually write the majority of it... in the end only the one or two sentences written by me seem really jarring [compared with everything else], and people didn't get that there was sort of a joke in there." Midnight Sun, however, is still on hold.)

Nonetheless, she's kept a tight hold on the movie, only agreeing to the project in the first place when teeth size met her approval, and having final say on casting and the length and passion of final clinches. "It's been good for me just in general to have to speak up because I am so invested in this," she's explained.



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4: VINOs: Vampires In Name Only.
The vampires in the Twilight books don't have elongated teeth, and they have no problem going out in daytime in their Pacific Northwest hometown, because it's so foggy (I can't tell if that's actually funny or just a kind of crappy dodge). They also, as almost every example of vampire fiction since, what, Anne Rice's Interview With A Vampire (or maybe Marilyn Ross' Barnabas Collins?), are tragic souls afflicted by a curse that don't really want to sink their teeth into humanity - and so, they eat animals and go on "hunting trips" to take care of their bloodlust. Yes, it's the Pacific Northwest Hipster Rural Lifestyle turned goth. Whatever happened to the good old days of Nosferatu and vampires who were unafraid to be vampires? I mean, if they have his pallor, why can't they have his mannerisms?

5: Remember The Golden Compass.
Summit Pictures, the studio behind the movie may be nervous about saying that they've got a hit on their hands ahead of the movie's release, but the movie is estimated to make somewhere between $20million and $50million in its first weekend, depending on how optimistic your sources are. It's worth remembering the fate of The Golden Compass, however; last year's "The New Harry Potter" had a similar amount of buzz pre-release, and a similarly impressive opening weekend... before audiences realized that the movies didn't live up to the books. Ultimately, the movie wasn't successful enough to warrant filming the second of the three His Dark Materials novels. The same thing may happen to Twilight. The figure to keep in mind is rumored to be $150 million; if Twilight makes less than that, you can forget about seeing New Moon, Eclipse or Breaking Dawn in theaters anytime soon. We can only hope.
"then whats wrong?" i asked there was something about his eyes that had me worrying.
"well i`be been wanting to do something all night" he stepped even closer.
"one sec its going to start getting cold i can feel it the weathers changing" i quickly placed him on my back again and began to run back to his house. in a matter of time we were there.
"so what was you saying?" i asked as soon as i set him on his feet.
"well i wanted to do this" he stepped towards me and before i knew it i was in his arms with his lips pressed softly againest mine. i could feel my self melt into the kiss.
what was happerening?...
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posted by BuffyFaithFan1
Hello, My Name Is: Death
Volume One
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This was like no other Monday. Why you ask? Well, maybe if a knife flew at your head, you would agree with me. And it wasn't like magic flying, it was like an assassain threw a knife at my head and tried to kill me! At first, all I could think of was RUN, but later on I knew why he was after me. Here is exactly what happened...
I was driving to the store, and I got out of my car and went inside. I was almost done, I just needed milk and cookie dough, and they were in the same isle, so I picked up...
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posted by LexisFaith
I opened the door and Jake came up behind me putting his hand on my mouth.
"Shhhh!" He whispered. "Sarah just went to sleep."
I removed his hand from my mouth and kissed him. "Good job." I smiled and started up stairs.
"So?" He followed behind me. "What's the verdict?"
I walked into our room and took off my shoes and put my things away.
I walked over and stood infront of him. I put my hands on my hips and sighed.
"This baby has the wolf gene. That's why it is growing faster." I ran my hair threw my curls and walked around him.
"So what does that mean?"
"It means..." I turned to make sure he was behind...
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since jake died its been hard to live alec was somewhere out there and if i ever saw him again it would be hard to stop myself from trying to kill him.

i was ment to start a frsh a new country and diffrent school and a younger age. i was going to be 16 again. well that was way of how old i was now.
45.
yeah jake died a while ago but his death still hurt. i still loved him.

sitting in my room i felt like empty dad and mum tried everything they could to find alec but he was no where to be seen and what hurt the most is that i didnt want to find him to have dad see into his mind and see why he...
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posted by xroylex
i was still waiting but something felt weird why hadnt jake come back?
where the hell was he?
i was about to go looking for him when paul came back holding two cold looking drinks
"here" he handed me a glass but his face looked wary and a little guilty so before taking a sip i sniffed it.
yep as i was expecting there was something in it but what he didnt know is that being half vampire was that these tablet didnt effect me so why not have a little fun with him hmm??
well
i drank the hole glass watchin his eyes widen and a hug smile spread across his face
"wow i got to say that drink was ... diffrent...
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posted by a-jforever
No...No he has to be joking right.
“Victoria got away?” I whimpered. She would be back for me and there would be no delay on killing me this time. It would be so quick that Alice and Jacob wouldn’t be able to save me.

“Bella, are you ok?” Alice asked entering the kitchen.

Jacob stiffened. And Alice scrunched up her nose.

“WHAT IS THAT AWFUL SMELL?” she complained.

“It’s me, Leech. And I have to say, you don’t smell that good either.”

“Guys please.” I begged. I couldn’t be dealing with this right now.

“I guess we don’t smell that appealing to each other then.” Alice...
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posted by Jessie-Louise
Dear Diary,

Something bad happened last night,I think i might be pregnant with Jacobs child.
I have to tell my parents.Maybe i will tell them tomorrow.. Yes tomorrow.
And i will just say that it wasn't meant to happen but i would like to keep my child.
I mean what bad can actually go on ,well my dad will shout thats for sure but he will soon get over it
... (gulp) I Hope.

Love Renesmee...x

It was the next day and i decided to tell my parents.

"Mom,Dad i need to tell you something"
"Ohh honey we need to tell you something too"
"Im Pregnant"me and mom said at the same time.
"WHAT!" i think its abit weird...
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posted by CarlislesLover
Hey guys I fianly got part six up
Hope you like it
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The next day I decided that I would go out looking for Edward whilst Renesmee was at school. Even though I left him I still love him and I was concerned about his disappearance. “Mum what happened last night?”

“Umm someone broke in”

“Was it that guy in the black cloak?”

“Umm no it was someone else” I couldn’t tell her that Alice had broken in. She couldn’t know what was going on. “Oh right ok”

“I’m getting your friend Katie to take you to school today”

“Why?”

“Because I have things to do and I can’t take...
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posted by CarlislesLover
Parrt 5 :)XXXXX




I drove home picking Renesmee up on the way. “Have a good day at school”

“You know you were on about that man in the black cloak?”

“Yes”

“Well he was hovering outside the school gates today. He looked exactly as you’d described him”

“Oh god no”

“He was really freaky” Something had to be done about this man in the black cloak. He was not only scaring me now he was scaring Renesmee too. Renesmee went to be later than usual so she was bound to be tired tomorrow. I sat down in the living room thinking how to get this man to go away. I certainly didn’t want...
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posted by decullen
I shot up in a fright I was in a a pitch black room I was on a silk covered bed, the air was damp, the wind soothing as it bounced off my neck , I heard a smooth voice . An angel? Edward? My Edward. "Sleep, my Bella. Dream happy dreams. Your the only one who has ever touched my heart. It will always be yours. Sleep, my only love." I was reassured to know that Edward was there so I slid back under the sheets and head slowly drifted away into sleep, in my dream there was a beautiful white room full of heavenly light and beautiful smells whispers echoed around me, "Sleep, my Bella. Dream happy...
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posted by Tatti
1918, May 22

The past months has been rough. They tried to torment me as much as possible in order to know where my sister is. My visions was more and more calming because I could see Cynthia successfully trying to get away from her terrible past and starting all over again. I even saw a vision with her coming back to our parents soon and my intuition kept telling me that this return won't be a risk. Later I get a new why.
On one beautiful night of May Eleonora Rowenson found her husband dead in his study. The coroner decided it was a heart attack and since the old man was quite old and suffered...
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posted by whatupiloveyou
Sorry that it has been so long…me and my husband went on a ‘electrical diet’…which is were we couldn’t use anything electric like cell phones or computers for a week.

Disclaimer: I am not Stephenie Meyer, I don’t own twilight!
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Chapter 4: Bella’s POV

The look on my mom’s face told me I should have asked later. Renee was muttering incoherent things. Phil was trying to calm her down. She looked like she was going into shock. “Mom?” I asked. I look over at Edward who was just telling me to relax and stay calm. “Why do...
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posted by Tatti
1916, August 20

It's been eight long days. During the last years I learned how to hate other people and this hatred helped me hundred of times. It's easier when you have someone to blame, I noticed it when Arthur died. But though there where times when I didn't feel like a normal human and thought that it's only my fault, I've never hated myself as much as I did now.
Cynthia tried to pretend strong, but the pain in her face always betrayed her. I, on the other hand, had much less punishments than before. It's was a perfect Hell-hound's plan because seeing my little sister being hurt only for...
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posted by 1TeamEdwardFan
Bella
Bella
Hey guys, thanks for all the support on the first chapter, i'll try and make chapter 2 a bit longer. This is the second time i'm writing this, because my computer froze last night and i lost all of my writing!!! I'm not sure if it will be as good, well hope you enjoy it anyway.


Bella's POV


"Ouch" I said, my head was spinning, I couldn't remember what had happened last night, then i remembered, there was someone in the house. "Oh" i said quickly sitting up, I was in my room, I slowly looked around excepting someone to be here, that's when i saw Edward sitting in my old rocking chair in the corner....
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posted by decullen
As we left the music room.Edward held my hand and stopped suddenly in font of a fire exit .

"Where are we going" I muttered
"You'll soon find out."He gently kissed my hand a shock of excitement shot through my spine.We burst out of fire exit.Then he stopped at a car.He opened the door for me,I was wondering why he just went inside a random car without permission,unless it was his own,i just wasn't sure, I didn't dare ask him.

Soon after we set off ,we ended up stopping at this amazing,enormous house with a balcony.

"Where are we?" I said in a shaky voice .

"This is my home,I live here."He replied...
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posted by whatupiloveyou
Italics are Bella’s dream!
Bella’s POV

    I can’t believe I was smiling, the last time I smiled was when Ed…he was here. My mom was in shock that I was finally showing a change in emotion.
“Sweetheart, your happy, or smiling, at least. I love you so much. You know that right?” my mom was over-joyed. I just smiled more, and that made my mom more excited. I know its stupid, but I really want that wish to come true. I want to see him again, to be happy again. I know that sounds so hopeless.
“Its late, sweetheart, you should really go to sleep. See you in the morning.”...
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posted by Twilight597
Uhm, Yeah most may think Hannah Montana is lame, yeah I do too, but I had a weird Idea for a crossover. Well This is only the beginning, so if you want me to keep writing tell me and stuff. If it's a waste of time tell me and i wont post it here. and tell me if you want me to post my other stories...Ive completely not written on here. I'm mostly on Fanfiction nowadays, so yeah, here ya go.

Identity # 3

Intro

I walked downstairs in the morning to find my producer, Jessica, talking with my dad, while he cooked us some breakfast.

“Good morning Miley! If you’re wondering why I’m here, why don’t...
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posted by kiwi12
Alice

The train station was packed. It was dark out so we didn't have to worry about attracting attention. Or we wouldn't have if Jasper wasn't eying everyone suspiciously. When we were alone, he's always preferred to stay behind me. Now, he stayed a step ahead and kept looking back at me as if he thought I would disappear or run into danger. "Nothing is going to happen." I assured him, so quietly no one else could have a chance of hearing. "There are no other vampires here." He relaxed slightly. He still looked wary, but not so paranoid.

He left me momentarily to buy our tickets, bringing the...
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Today we have the latest and the official Eclipse poster for you!

Bella takes the main role at the front of the poster, and her two guys are to either side of her forming a love triangle.

The phrase, 'It all Begins with a Choice' gives away part of the Eclipse plot. We won'd say anything else about it, even though we know many of you have already read the books. All we will say is that something really bad is coming to Forks.

The most important part of Eclipse is the torment that Bella feels because of having to choose between two great loves, Jacob and Edward.

This new movie promises to be a lot more action packed, thrilling and entertaining than the other Twilight films. We can't wait!
posted by emmett
*I did not write this*
Dear Diary,

So today was like any other day. Almost killing every human who starts to smell too good, toying with people’s emotions and kicking Emmett’s butt at chess. You know same old, same old.

Though, today was exceptionally hilarious. I was playing a game of chess with Emmett, with 9 boards, and I was winning, naturally. So because I was winning Emmett got all upset and broke my all time fav chess piece, the little night on his little horse. God I was mad about that, he knew it was my fav and he had to go and kill it! So I went and did something a LOT worse! Haha...
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