Does anyone else think that SMeyer needs to understand...?

Question

that her characters ARE NOT REAL and do not have minds of their own?

"’m not even sure that I know. I know that sounds crazy, but really there are secrets that my characters keep from even me. And I had that experience with Rosalie actually when I first started working on Twilight. I had no idea she didn’t like Bella and her character was really flat and sort of half way through I figured out ‘Oh, she hates Bella!’ and then she was easier to write. So sometimes my characters don’t tell me everything. I have my suspicions."

"because Jacob wanted me to."

Do most writers do this or is she special?

Answer 1

It is quite funny :)

Quite a lot do actually- Vladimir Nabokov claims that Humbert Humbert wrote the book for him (the book being Lolita). This means that he was intune with the character as a writer. It's a great book by the way.

Answer 2

lol.  I love the series, but I think she's just a tad bit delusional...lol

:)

Answer 3

Not most, but I've read comments from other authors along those lines.  She's not any more original with that than she has been original in her books... in other words, she's not an "original" AT ALL.

Answer 4

She knows they aren't real, but she's dedicated so much time thinking about them that she's grown attached, and they seem like real people to her. Being that Twilight started from a dream, it's almost obvious that Edward would be real to her.

I have a character that keeps haunting me in different forms; he exists in different times and with different names, but he's the same guy. It's funny, because he tells me his story in little whispers throughout the day, and starts yelling it if I don't write it down. I dream about his family and his friends and his love interests and him on an almost nightly basis.

I know he isn't real, but I've dedicated so much of my time working him out, making his personality, shaping him into what he is, and he keeps coming back into my thoughts in an almost demanding way.

That's what's up with Steph. She spent so much time working on that all of a sudden it hits her like "Oh, no wonder Rose is so one-dimensional, she hates Bella! She wouldn't want to have her around, it makes sense."

Does that help?

Answer 5

when you write about something that you really enjoy I think you really get attached. I am writing a novel and I kinda think of it as another world functioning and im just writing about it.