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New_Moon_Master said:
I've never been a big fan of Stephen King, so I'm going to try and be objective about this.
As a very successful writer, Stephen sounds to be jealous of Stephenie's success.
For a long time he was known as the writer of the times if you will, even with J.K Rowling, her stories were loved, and she was praised, but rarely said to be "The best writer since Shaksphere." or "Best writer of ours time." like Stephenie has.
I think that Stephen thinks that Stephenie Meyer is a bad writer because he doesn't understand. In his mind, good story + writing classes + fans = good writing/success.
He sees it as; Stpehenie Meyer didn't follow the "rules" with her writing, and the "rules" is what he believes makes a good story.
So when Stephenie cuts out of sex scenes, or edies, tones things down, things that he would have kept in, things that would've been "artistic".
This makes me very angry.
I believe that a sex scene can add a lot of emotion and deapth to a story, but the fact that he says it's not a good story without it is just so narrowminded.
A good story won't follow all the rules, a good story won't always do what you expect.
Why do you think that Stpehenie is so popular?
Because she breaks the careful rules of other writers.
She dared to change the careful lines of "what Vampire's are".
She had her own version, she didn't follow writing "rules", she made a lot of people angry because of it too.
People who don't understand, like Stpehen.
"Oh! Your grammer wasn't perfect there!" or "You used that word too many times in a chapter!", just because these things are true that makes her a bad writer?
No.
Maybe if other writers whould stop worrying so much about what is expected of them, and if this or that thing would be "proper", then they would be better writers.
Stephenie Meyer is such a good writer BECAUSE of the "bad" things.
She isn't a writer because she didn't take classes?
Do you think the first person who wrote about vampires took a "this is how to write a vampire story" class?
People need to be more unique like Stephenie, but they're too afraid.
People won't do against the grain anymore.
Nobody will be unique.
Someone has to be unique right?
Yet every time someone does, others just copy them.
Vango, Picasso, many others like them were called crazy, and weren't understood in they're time.
Why?
Because it was new, it was scary, and didn't make sense in those people's time.
Now though, someone takes four years of "art" classes and learns EXACTLY how to put the perfect dot on the paper.
That's not art, art comes from inside, art comes in all differant forms and sizes, and is never fully understood by anyone but it's creator.
I should know.
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