Sunday, January 25, 2009

How did it come to be?

How did "Twlight" come to be?
If you have read the "Twilight" series, have you ever wondered why or what gave the author, Stephanie Meyer, the idea to write it? Meyer had a dream about two people arguing in a meadow about how they were falling in love with eachother. Of course, one of them was just an average girl and the other was a vampire, whose, because he was standing in the meadow out in the sun, was seemed to be have been sparkling. Meyer hadn't written much of anything for about six years before she had this dream. She started writing right away before she lost the scene in her head. She mostly wrote and night writing about a chapter or more a day. It took her about three months to write this novel.
Meyer had to do some researching about where the story would take place and about the names of some of the main characters in the story. She had used Google as her main search engine. She had looked for a small and rainy place with a forest and found that Washington state and an Olympic Peninsula. She had also found pictures of the the small town Forks, WA which sold her to have that in her story.
The two main characters in Meyer's story had been, from what she wrote, were talking in her head. She couldn't get away from her computer at home. It seemed to take her quite some time to find someone to publish her book. In the end, it took about three months to write her book and about three months to get it published. If you would like to read the entire story, click here.

2 comments:

  1. Kirstie, I haven't actually read the Twilight books, but I do plan on it. I watched the movie over Christmas break and at the beginning of it I was kinda like, "Okay, what's such the big hype about this for?" then by the end of it I was under the Edward Cullen spell and absolutely LOVED the movie. I can't wait to read the books and watch the rest of the movies.
    I also love the stories behind authors finding the settings and such to their novels, they always put so much thought into it and i think that it often gets over looked.

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  2. I haven't gotten the chance to read the twilight series yet, but I have heard so many good things about it. I find it really interesting how the author received her inspiration from a dream, and produced a bestselling book from it. It kind of makes me wonder what a lot of people could do if they really let their dreams inspire something within them.

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