As someone who a little experience on this topic, I feel like if I had Mel having sex with her brothers instead of killing herself i'd be a multimillionai re :( lol
I think it's much safer to change real life fics than tv or movie ones. I'm kind of surprised Stephenie hasn't gone after her yet. They can try to out crappy write each other lol although I have no clue if that 50 Shades chick is a crappy writer. I know the other one is. My opinion of course :) lol
It's sort of left me wondering how many other successful books out there were adapted from fanfic!
I'm sure there must be a lot :)
In the BSB fandom, I think you might have some trouble trying to publish a book about a boyband whose members were named Nick, Brian, AJ, Howie, and Kevin, but if you got rid of the boyband thing and changed some of the names, I doubt anyone but a fan would recognize them just from their personalities. An AU would be no problem, assuming the quality was publishable.
You should publish it to Kindle :)
Writers actually have to pay Amazon to have their books put on Kindle and I just don't have the money to do that. Maybe I can borrow some from this chick. Lol yeah, I'm jealous. I admit it. Especially if she sucks as an author as badly as most people say she does.
Hmm, so the people who publish books for free on there are actually out of pocket?
Probably, unless they published for free from Amazon itself I guess? I have no idea about everyone else lol
I'm reading it now too. If "sausage" is used in it, I will actually die laughing. But yeah I agree, if you're going to write a sex scene, man up and use the right words! Otherwise it'll just come out sounding awkward.
Does this story take place in the UK?
I'm on Chapter 3. The way it's written does sound very awkward. It's like, Dawson's Creek in the 40's or something LOL. No one talks like this. I'm finding it to be very slow paced and at the same time the character likes this Christian Grey dude way too quickly. It feels like nothing is happening and the writer is just trying to get to her plot too fast but putting in way too much nonsense.
I'm typically not a fan of things that are written in present tense either, but that's just personal preference.
Oh, but you remember Bella was attracted to Edward RIGHT away and couldn't understand why he was so repulsed by her! lol
I HATED Twilight the book with ten passions lol I was in the hospital when I read it and the nurses would come in and laugh because I was always yelling at it! My version of hell would to eternally hear Nkotb read Twilight. I can't think of anything worse... Well I guess if they tried to sing it, that would be worse lol
I'm still not entirely sure they could all read lol Oh no she didn't. SNAP :-p
I'm still not entirely sure they could all read lol Oh no she didn't. SNAP :-p
Can Kevin do Hagrids voice, please? :dancebanana:
LMAO YES!
My dearest, dearest friends
I did not date until I was 21 BUT you can't say I wasn't attracted to several, several guys...
:)
thanks for giving me more reason to stay away from it
I have to admit, I can see the appeal of Twilight; I plowed through all four of those books in two weeks, so there had to be something there. That said, I had a hard time trying to reread them. I'm the kind of reader who reads good books over and over again, but they just didn't hold my attention like they did the first time. I think the reason I read them so fast was just to see how the storyline would turn out, not because they were actually good. Turns out, the way the storyline ends is a huge letdown that makes the other books basically pointless, and Edward is a huge creeper. Even Jacob is creepy by the end. I've still seen all the movies (and yes, Breaking Dawn Part 1 was really bad), but I believe people who make fun of them are completely justified in doing so LOL.
I completely agree with you on the ending. As I mentioned before, I read Twilight to answer questions that rose up in youth group, and I was OBSESSED. I LOVED the books. And then I read #4. You remember the term "jumped the shark"? The point when a storyline becomes so ridiculous, it jumped the shark, ala Fonzi in Happy Days? I totally think that Twilight jumped the shark, like Stephenie herself said "Shit, I've been writing this crap too long, I must shove every happy ending into this last book so I can finally be done with it!" and voila, Breaking Dawn... When I read Breaking Dawn, I went from loving Twilight and telling everyone how great it was into making fun of it. And now to try and make it through a fanfic... *sigh* Let's see if I can actually read chapter 2, I've started it twice...
Chapter 8 must be where they do it for the first time. I'm on chapter 6 I think. I highly doubt I will make it to the end to be honest.
^ That's where an editor would have come in handy. You can't blame her for not getting the dialogue just right, being British and writing about American characters, but someone should have helped her fix that before it was published. Another reason not to self-publish!
Howie! Duh lol
I was going to say that but ...*shrugs* perhaps we can have Lance have a guest spot as Hermione? I want Howie to read Voldemort for some reason....
LMFAO Howie as Voldey! *dieeees*
IIii will beeee the oooone to killl Harry Potterrr!!
Dude seriously someone needs to get a video of him saying that now. :D
Could you just IMAGINE the facial expressions he would make saying that alone?
most likely Steph. I know if I were to write a story that takes place outside of the US I would need help to get lingo right that is for sure.
You can't please everyone, so you're better off just doing it to please yourself :)
Is it weird that I loved Twilight but not 50 Shades?
LMFAO and here's the popsicle line, sung karaoke style on Jimmy Fallon! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imsm9TyI6t0
My sister jumped on the bandwagon and ordered all 3 books from Amazon without even reading reviews or the back cover of the book. I told her exactly what I thought of it (well, the chapters I've read) and she is now regretting buying them as she says she trusts my opinion.
Everyone last night was saying the first three chapters are slow and boring, and they were about to give up on it until they got to Chapter 4, or wherever the first sex scene is... and then they were hooked. I don't see the appeal of creepy S&M sex scenes, though, unless that's the appeal - that they're creepy and weird LOL. I read enough horror to get that.
Hey, don't discredit her for being faster than a Porsche to learn to Jenna Jameson it up... Maybe she's a natural born submissive. ??? lmao... I kid, of course. :P
But she is hardly a submissive at all. Even after she agrees to it she flips out the first time he really does anything to her! What pisses me off the most is that she accepts emotionall/psychological abuse through the whole thing but when she AGREES to physical abuse she flips.
Writers actually have to pay Amazon to have their books put on Kindle and I just don't have the money to do that. Maybe I can borrow some from this chick. Lol yeah, I'm jealous. I admit it. Especially if she sucks as an author as badly as most people say she does.
She annoys me too, she never smiles!
I've probably posted this somewhere on the forum before, but if you haven't seen it before... dead-on impression of K-Stew LOL.
Speak Like Kristen Stewart: http://youtu.be/zKKAVYI7vdU
It kind of had that "this is gonna end badly but I want to keep reading anyway" feel to it.
That was sort of like me. Once I had invested a few chapters I was like "I am GOING to see how this monstrosity ends!" It's sort of like watching Centre Stage. It's terrible, but you still feel compelled to finish watching LOL
I've probably posted this somewhere on the forum before, but if you haven't seen it before... dead-on impression of K-Stew LOL.
Speak Like Kristen Stewart: http://youtu.be/zKKAVYI7vdU
That's exactly how I was. I never get into books that are "popular" like Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Twilight, I don't know why, so I felt like the same thing was going to happen to his.
I really did hate the ending of the third book. I felt like it was WAY too rushed and it honestly reminded me of a fan fic that someone just got tired of writing and decided to rush the ending.
The third book jumped the shark big time, I agree. I remember sitting there thinking "Wow this got really dull." it just became the same thing over and over. I never got the fanfic vibe as much as I did from the third book.
That's another thing I don't get. I mean I do get it because the guys are hot but Channing Tatum's horrible acting far outwieghs me wanting to pay money to see that movie. LOL
I made some comment about how people who actually liked Magic Mike without a smidge of irony involved are likely the same people who like 50 Shades and my mother was like "I liked 50 Shades of Grey! Can you help me get it off my Playbook to give to my friend?" Absolutely not. I will have no part in this.
Also, I will never look at her the same just because I'm weirded out knowing my MUM liked that book.
I want to see Magic Mike only for the eye candy, is there supposed to be a plot??? LOL However, I don't think I will actually make it. I go in the AM before noon the tickets are 5 bucks here so that is when we typically go to movies anyway.
My Mom only wants to see it for Alicide from True Blood. I was like he's not even a main character...That was my favorite one too!! I love Alcide ;)