Anything worth having is never easy.
If writing were easy, everyone would do it.
Take each of the above inspirational quotes, repeat several times a day, everyday, until they sink into your brain, and you are reaping the cosmic and spiritual fruits or your labors!
Monday, July 27, 2009
The Summer of the Vampire
I just ordered the Sookie Stackhouse collection from Amazon. It was a great deal, too: the entire seven-book set for $30.76, with FREE shipping!
I'm so excited; they should be arriving tomorrow. It's so great that there are like eight books in the series (new one coming in October 2009), then the True Blood series will run for a while. If you've never watched the show, do yourself a favor and do so immediately! It's addicting.
And this hot, steamy summer is the perfect time to become immersed in the seductive and bloody sex-soaked world of Bon Temps, with its vampires and shape shifters and utter strangeness.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
True Blood vs Twilight
I've started reading the Charlaine Harris "Southern Vampire Mysteries", also known as the "Sookie Stackhouse" novels, upon which the phenomenal series True Blood is based. Harris is a great writer, and her characters are so vivid and engrossing, plus the storylines are so fresh and original.
That's why I can't understand all of the hype and rabid fan base behind the Twilight books and movies. Okay, to be fair, I never even made it through the first book in the series--I couldn't. I realized about 50 pages in that I was having to force myself to keep reading, thinking maybe it'll get interesting. When you read Harris' books, or see the series, you wonder how anyone could want a watered-down, saccharine version of the vampire story.
Maybe much of my disinterest is the fact that the books cater to a teenage audience; trying to get through those scenes in the cafeteria were sooo laborious. But, the truth is, if the writing is good, and the story grabs you and carries you along, it doesn't matter what age demographic it falls into.
My point: True Blood kicks Twilight's ass!
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