Minna-san konnichiwa Kumagai Keiko desu! Dozo yoroshiku! Welcome to my World! I talk about the Twilight series, Japanese trends, How to speak Japanese, Anime, Video Games, stuff like that! There'll be a BAND OF THE WEEK, a TREND OF THE WEEK, or a little something on HOW TO SPEAK JAPANESE or FRENCH almost every week! Not to mention the occasional post of my life!
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That's right....Stephenie Meyer, the author of the Twilight series, and The Host is NOT finishing Midnight Sun.....recently, the first 12 chapters were leaked, and it has truly broken her heart. I'm really upset that it has lead to her ceasing the completion of Midnight Sun....she's given the link to the first 12 chapters on her site, but I refuse to read them at the moment. I truly believe (after she's had some peace of course....you know, with the movie coming out, directing that music video, her events, she really needs to BREATHE!) that Edward and Bella will come into her dreams once again, and insist that she finish Midnight Sun and publish it; so that Edward's story can FINALLY be told. How can she refuse the characters that she loves with all of her heart? I think that she WILL finish MS, and publish it. But that's just my opinion....She says she knows who did it, but I doubt she'll tell us anything other than that. Here's the post on her site.....(BTW MissDarkAngel...I'm working on those pics as I type this!! They'll be up soon!!)
August 28, 2008
As some of you may have heard, my partial draft of Midnight Sun was illegally posted on the Internet and has since been virally distributed without my knowledge or permission or the knowledge or permission of my publisher.
I have a good idea of how the leak happened as there were very few copies of Midnight Sun that left my possession and each was unique. Due to little changes I made to the manuscript at different times, I can tell when each left my possession and to whom it was given. The manuscript that was illegally distributed on the Internet was given to trusted individuals for a good purpose. I have no comment beyond that as I believe that there was no malicious intent with the initial distribution.
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. As the author of the Twilight Saga, I control the copyright and it is up to the owner of the copyright to decide when the books should be made public; this is the same for musicians and filmmakers. Just because someone buys a book or movie or song, or gets a download off the Internet, doesn't mean that they own the right to reproduce and distribute it. Unfortunately, with the Internet, it is easy for people to obtain and share items that do not legally belong to them. No matter how this is done, it is still dishonest. This has been a very upsetting experience for me, but I hope it will at least leave my fans with a better understanding of copyright and the importance of artistic control.
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.
I'd rather my fans not read this version of Midnight Sun. It was only an incomplete draft; the writing is messy and flawed and full of mistakes. But how do I comment on this violation without driving more people to look for the illegal posting? It has taken me a while to decide how and if I could respond. But to end the confusion, I've decided to make the draft available here (at the end of this post). This way, my readers don't have to feel they have to make a sacrifice to stay honest. I hope this fragment gives you further insight into Edward's head and adds a new dimension to the Twilight story. That's what inspired me to write it in the first place.
I do want to take a moment and thank the wonderful fans who have been so supportive of me over the past three years. I cannot begin to tell you how much each of you means to me. I only hope this note will stop all the confusion and online speculation so that the Twilight universe can once again become the happy escape it used to be. After this incredibly busy year, I am now focusing on spending more time with my family and working on some other writing projects.
Okay, have any of you read BREAKING DAWN yet? All I have to say is that if you don't want my opinion and/or possible spoilers, QUIT READING! THEE HATH BEEN WARNED! Now, I thought it was rushed and kind of boring actually, not alot of action, like the other books have! Also, IT WAS WRITTEN COMPELETELY DIFFERENT! I was happy when Bella and Edward had sex and then had a baby though! (But I thought 'she' was going to be a 'he', I would've liked alot more detail about those 2 nights w/ Bella and Edward....what can I say, I'm 17 and they're my most fav couple of all time!). And the baby almost killed Bella the entire time she was inside Bella, and Bella took it like a trooper. BUT EDWARD WANTED TO KILL THE BABY! HE KEPT CALLING HER AN 'IT' AND A 'THING'! (Though I think I can see why) And then the baby's name Renesmee....'Her name is a mouthful' I think is the way Jacob put it, and I have to agree. But I do see where Bella was coming from putting Renee and Esme's names together....and the nickname that Jacob gave her CRACKED ME UP! NESSIE? I died! And then JACOB IMPRINTS ON THE BABY! I WAS LIKE "WTF?! SAY WHAT NOW?!" Yeah, he did it. And Bella wasn't too happy. Little Nessie is has the opposite gift that Edward has too! Instead of reading other people's minds, she let's them read hers! And there wasn't a fight with the Volturi (which I've been dying to read!), hence the lack in action. Bella's 'sheild' power threw me off as well. And she had it BEFORE she was turned into a vampire?! And then one person got killed in the finale....BUT!!!!What made me giggle and squeal like the real Twilighter I am------EDWARD FINALLY GOT TO READ BELLA'S THOUGHTS!! *sighs happily* That part was amazing! So to wrap up....I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it either. I just think that it could've been better.
Konnichiwa minna-san! I have the new Twilight poster up! The contacts that Rob is wearing ACTUALLY DO THAT IN THE LIGHT! The contacts were not tampered with in Photoshop or anything! I WANT THOSE CONTACTS! ANYWAY! I promised to tell you a story, well here goes. After I moved to TN from my lovely state of FL, a hot Japanese boy CAME FROM JAPAN AND IS IN MY OLD 5TH PERIOD!! HE SAID HE WAS LOOKING FOR A LITTLE GOTH GIRL!!(Though I prefer to call myself a Visual Kei/Jrock girl, I would say I was goth for a Japanese boy!) Do you know how sad I was?! I CRIED!! My friend Gradie showed him some pics of me, and she said he thought I was pretty....LIAR!! So if the house in FL sells before school lets out here and in my old home town, I might be able to go down there and SEE MY FRIENDS AND THE HOT ASS JAPANESE BOY! Okay, enough about that....today SUCKED....a little. I had to take Gateway math....I think I bombed it. THE STUPID GUIDANCE LADY SENT ME TO THE WRONG CLASSROOM! I swear, this school needs to get it together....that wasn't the first time the school has messed up! But mum checked me out early and took me to lunch! That made me happy! And I got to go home and sleep! YAY! But I have to take Gateway English tomorrow and then on Thursday (LAST DAY OF THE WEEK!) I have to take Gateway Science....which is totally stupid because I haven't had Physical Science IN 2 BLOODY YEARS!!!!
I seriously about died when I saw this video! God, Rob Pattinson looks so HOT! His voice melts me! Yeah, I like Brits too! Japanese guys aren't the only ones who steal my heart! By the way, I'll tell you a story in my next post!^^Anywho, I was just so excited that I had to post this!
Just to warn you guys, I'll probably be posting Twilight stuff for awhile! You guys know how obsessive I can get! I DO have OCD ya know, nyaa! ANYWHO, today is Twilight Tuesday, and you know what that means! MORE TWILIGHT movie news!! Man, I'm REALLY excited about this movie!! Here's a snippet of an interview....just to get the obsessiveness out of mah system....for a milisecond anyway! =^w^=
"I'm dressed in baseball gear because during a baseball game, the bad vampires show up and they threaten to kill Bella," Nikki Reed (Rosalie Hale) said of "The Garage Scene," another iconic moment they're filming on this particular day. "So Edward is in a panic, and he feels powerless. He's extremely scared. We get back to the garage, and the entire family comes up with this plan to lead them in a different direction by wearing Bella's clothing and rubbing it up against trees, misleading the bad vampires."
On this mountainside property that can only be described as a mansion, the garage is housing three of the trademark vehicles mentioned throughout the novel. Parked nearby is Bella's orange-red Chevy truck. Hardwicke gathers her young, beautiful troops, shouts "action!" and watches movie magic unfold on a handheld monitor.
Jasper: "I've had to fight our kind before. We're hard to kill."
Edward: "But not impossible."
Emmett: "We'll rip them apart with our hands, then burn the pieces!"
Carlisle: "I don't relish killing another creature. Even a sadistic one like James."
Rosalie: "He might get to one of us first."
Bella: "I can't let you guys do this! This is insane!"
Rosalie: "Too late."
Take after take concludes with the same sequence of events: Hardwicke steps in to give her thoughts, the young actors pair off (usually in the same groupings as their decades-long lovers in the film), and Stewart hops up on the workbench to have a moment alone. Since the scene ends with Bella in the backseat of Carlisle's Mercedes, being driven away from Edward, Stewart ends each shot with a tear so dependable you could set your watch to it.
No one bothers Stewart between takes as she comes back from whatever place she has to go to find her sorrow. On almost every occasion, it is Pattinson who will eventually walk over, give her shoulder a light rub, and bring her back for the next take. If chemistry is a concern to the "Twilight" fans, they can sleep well from here on out.
"I've revealed that I'm a vampire, essentially, and Bella knows and she still wants to be with me," Pattinson said of the common thread between the two scenes being shot on this, the 29th day out of 45 they'll be shooting. "I'm basically testing the waters of how far towards a normal human relationship Edward can have. ... I am seeing how much I can actually be physical with her, and how much I can say without scaring her off. Even though I've told her the basics, there's still a lot of stuff that I could say that could potentially ruin everything. [The meadow] is like a date scene."
For her part, Stewart prefers these days to such action-packed scenes as the baseball-field showdown that was recently filmed, which displays the other characters' superhuman speed, agility and propensity for violence. "In the big action sequences, it's a little scary because some people say, 'We're going to get done with the action sequences, and then we'll get to the acting scenes,' " revealed the "Into the Wild" actress who counts no less than Jodie Foster as one of her greatest fans. "And it's like, 'Well, that's just not how it works, man.' It's hard to keep what you're doing in the rest of the movie consistent. ... You can't lose what's going on with the characters. [Quiet scenes] are actually more difficult, because you have to strive to not let it go and not just focus on a wall that's being ripped out or something. In the more intimate scenes, you're given the time to get into it."
To help him "get into it," Pattinson tracked down Meyer during one of her set visits and got a rare peek at the closely guarded manuscript for "Midnight Sun," an upcoming novel that retells the "Twilight" story from Edward's point of view.
"I am definitely the only person apart from her and the editor who has read it," he said with pride. "Just me and Catherine [Hardwicke]. It is very top-secret. And it is like halfway, two-thirds finished. I read that right at the beginning [of filming]. I got a lot of stuff out of that."
Insisting that he's "not allowed to say anything" about the "Midnight" passages that even the 4,000-strong fan group "Twilight Moms" would likely give their firstborn child to read, Pattinson was willing to say this: "It's exactly the same events, but a couple of other things happen. You get the same gist, but it's funny how different things affect Edward in ways that you don't really expect if you have just read 'Twilight.'
"That is what I liked about [taking on] the job, because the guy doesn't really exist that much, so you can just create whatever you want," Pattinson said of a preproduction period that found him injecting his thoughts into the character. "Then, when I found out there was another book from Edward's perspective, [I read it and it turned out] we had the same perspective!"
