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Do you think SK was right when he bashed Stephenie Meyer, or were you against it? Either way, would you like to join this spot:

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Do you think SK was right when he bashed Stephenie Meyer, or were you against it? Either way, would you like to join this spot:
 sapherequeen posted over a year ago
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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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Very nice!
Hellohoudini posted over a year ago
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Some how i doubt that Stephen King is jealous of SM, he has a lot more books published than she does and most of them have been turned into many successful movies. He is able to say things like that he has been around longer than she has. SM has only targeted a certain audience, teenage girls (mainly), and Stephen King has been able to write many books for anyone. I'm pretty sure that he does have some sort of idea about succes as he himself is rather successful. As you said at the begining of your argument you have never been a fan of Stephen King, which makes your argument EXTREMELY biased! So before YOU start typing, i think you should think about the other side of things.
africanflower posted over a year ago
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His own opinion would've been to say, "I personally don't like the story." Not basicly say that she 's just a bad writer. And I know Stephenie Meyer isn't making a fuss about it. I don't even know if she cares or nor honestly. I just know that I would be offended if it were me, and I don't think that it's right. It's not really a good thing to be "acknowledged" if it's an insult.
New_Moon_Master posted over a year ago
Suspenderlove said:
I don't think autors should be bashing eachother at all.
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Hellohoudini said:
After SK bashed Stephenie Meyer...he kinda lost me as a fan...not because I love Stephenie's work...but because he's been around forever...he has millions of fans...he came off ugly and conceited like he's the only one who can write...he sounds like he's jealous of Stephenie's success...if he felt the need to say anything then it should have been as a teacher..as in helping her out...not bashing her work. Sorry Stephen King..you've lost a fan.

Heres what he said:

Stephen King: Stephenie Meyer can't write
Time for Horror Writer Smackdown. In an interview with USA Weekend, Stephen King took a shot at Stephenie Meyer, whose Twilight series has been a huge hit. In his words, "[J.K.] Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good."

Geez, don't sugar-coat it, Stephen. He also skewers James Patterson, runs hot and cold on Dean Koontz and admires Jodi Picoult. King says Meyer's secret is "writing to a whole generation of girls and opening up kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books. It’s exciting and it’s thrilling and it's not particularly threatening because they’re not overtly sexual."

I suggest settling this with a faceoff between characters -- no holds barred, all powers allowed. Nancy, Read Street's resident expert on the supernatural, says Meyer's vampires are wimps and even Jack Nicholson (The Shining) could take on Edward. How about vampire James vs. Cujo? Or vampiress Bella vs. Carrie?
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What did he say about her, anyways?
tototo19 posted over a year ago
HerMelody said:
Perhaps Stephen King knows what he's talking about, he knows his stuff about writing, and he may not have meant it in a nasty, 'bashing' kind of way, just stating his opinion that those authors he mentioned cannot write well, but their stories are loved anyway. But it came across as insulting and maybe he should keep opinions about other authors' writing abilities to himself.
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Yeah it totally came out as insulting...and he made himself look like a jerk.
Hellohoudini posted over a year ago
InaV said:
Easiest thing is to criticize someone's work. And I never though SK is capable of doing it in such way-- I'm his fan too, but I'm really disappointed :\
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katiecain said:
I semi agree. She's not an amazing writer. Stephenie herself has admitted she is only an 'amateur'. And saying she's the 'best writer of our time' or saying 'she's the best writer since Shakespeare' is ridiculous. The story is amazing, that I don't deny-but the writing isn't as good. However, I don't think it was a nice thing to say and he does just seem to come across jealous, though I really doubt that's true. He is a way more respected author than Stephenie.
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That's one of the reasons why I think she's so awesome. BECAUSE she's 'amateur'. I love seeing the under-dog do something amazing, seeing as how I'm an under-dog myself, lol. :)
New_Moon_Master posted over a year ago
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