Stephenie Meyer Talks Midnight Sun!
Jun 22nd, 2010 | By Kallieross | Category: Featured Articles, Podcasts, Site News, Stephenie Meyer Interview
We were amazed going through the interview with Stephenie Meyer, and wanted to bring you an answer to one of the MOST asked questions… The very first thing Stephenie addressed was Midnight Sun, and now you can hear it all straight from her!
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Meghan: What we’ll do is just start here, you’ll do one question and keep going around…
Letters to Twilight: No pressure!
(Laughing)
Meghan: So alright, go for it!
Stephenie: Wait! Wait, wait, wait! Do you all have your tape recorders on?
All: (Nodding and saying yes!)
Stephenie: First question, because we are going to deal with this right now, is Midnight Sun! Right? So we don’t have to…
All: (Lot’s of blabbering…)
Stephenie: I know that’s what everyone cares about. I also know that the right answer would be for me to say “Oh yah, it’s done! And it’ll be out next month!” But that’s not true. It’s also not true that I’ve got a ton of work done on it, and that’s what I’m working on. What’s true is that I’m really burned out on vampires. And, I don’t want to write it badly. So I want to wait until I’m excited about the material again, and I’m excited about Edward, and that it’s something that’s motivating. You know, when a story is keeping me up at night, and I’m waking up at 4 am in the morning and thinking ‘Yes! That is what is what should happen in this moment!’ Then that is when I can write with happiness! So, right now it feels like homework… it really does. And when things feel like homework they go very, very slowly for me. So it’s still not a “It’s not gonna happen!” I want to do it when I can do it right. You know, I have my share of human stubbornness, and I have to tell you, it’s a little bit hard when people are like “This is the only thing you can do, and it’s the only thing we care about!” And, you’re kind of like a three year old, you want to be like “I’m gonna do what I wanna do!” Yah. “You’re not the boss of me!” So my mom has backed off a little bit. Actually, I was at The Fray concert, and I was hanging out with the guys backstage. They’re really cool, and I was talking to Isaac about it. He was like, “I really want you to do that!” And I was like “Oh my gosh! Come on!” You know I can’t get away from it anywhere. And, we talked about stubbornness and reverse psychology. I have this great thing he signed for me, it says “To Stephenie, Don’t work on that stupid book! Nobody wants it anyway!” I have it by my computer. That really is the right direction to go with me, because I’m like “Huh! Maybe I should do it! I’ll show you!” Psychology! Anyway, that’s Midnight Sun! so, that should disappoint everyone!
Twilight Series Theories: I don’t think so!
Stephenie: Ok! so now we’re done! (Laughing) So, I’ll see you guys later!
All: (Laughing)
Letters to Twilight: That’s totally understandable.
Twilight Series Theories: I would rather wait.
Twilight Source: We’re not reading it until it’s done.
Twilight Series Theories: I haven’t read it!
Letters to Twilight: You haven’t!
Stephenie: The people I worry about are the haters. You know, that like to talk about what a horrible writer I am and all that stuff. When I do write it they’re going to say “Oh, this was worse than the first half because now she did it badly!” No matter what I do it’s going to be that way. There’s a mental block there. You know what people are going to say, so I have wait until it’s just me and the book again. Then I can feel excited about it! You know, sometimes I’ll sit and think about the car chase, that we don’t get to see from Bella’s perspective. I have that one completely mapped out in my head. That one wouldn’t be hard to get down. Stuff like that, it gets exciting. Cars. Ya know! The first car he steals I have picked out, and then the second one. It get’s messy! It’s gonna be great! You have to get excited about things! But, that’s Midnight Sun!
Twilight Series Theories: Check!
I understand what you are doing, but what exactly is the cutoff number for you of people BEGGING you to finish this book? it is not respectful of your fans to gauge interest in this way. if you are waiting for people to forget this book, you will be waiting a long time, and will probably lose some of your fan base in the process. it has been four years already since the “leak” why have we not heard of a law suit against the person who released it? you said you knew how it happened. a lot of your fans are teens ( who will by the way turn on you first) but an awful lot of us are adults as well. we know hype when we see it, and that’s ok, a little hype to gauge interest is fine, this however could come back to “bite” you. pun intended. if you are not as self involved as you just sounded in this clip, the least you can do is tell us when the book WILL come out or that you are not going to write it at all. if that is the case I will treasure the books I have of yours, which is every one as well as the films, but I can stop the anticipation of waiting for nothing.
all i want to know is will midnight sun ever come out or not. im so sick of waiting i mean its been years!
I’m also wondering what the deal is.
I understand someone betrayed you and published something that you werent ready to show. But if you’re worried about people judging you the wrong way – what about all of us who are dying for this book to be finsihed and come out? I think the only judging that will be happening is how long we’ve waited in anticipation, how much we all LOVED even the rough cut but still – NOTHING!
2012 is the fourth year since the leak…. I agree. Either the storey is coming or it’s not. I figure if you aren’t motivated by now to finish it, then you’ll never be moitvated. I have already read Twilight 3 times and I would love to be able to read a finished copy of Midnight Sun. Even anohter rough copy will do!!!! I honestly loved it so much and was so eager to read more.
PLEASE – finish Midnight Sun……. Who cares about the haters. you dont write for the haters – you write for your fans. WE are the ones who want the story!!!!!!!!!!
stephenie meyer!! please finish midnight sun.. i haven’t read the book yet.. and i mean it.. yes i know that it’s already in your website but i don’t want to read it not until you finish the whole book. i want to respect your authority and so i’ll keep on waiting just as long as you tell us (your fans) that you are going to finish the book.
please do.. i’ begging you!!!!!!!!
I really love midnight sun, and I know what you mean about motivation, It’s so intriguing reading from Edward’s mind, he really makes things seem deeper, and it help us understand they didn’t fall in love too fast, and I love how you wrote Twilight because you dreamed about them in the meadow together, the way you described it all, I was able to imagine and that was before the movies, your writing is magic, and really showed me how to bring my own dreams alive through writing, I admire you so much, and I can’t wait to see the magic you do with Midnight sun, I know once you start it, it’ll be awesome, it shows in the work you’ve done already. Thank you for all the beautiful writing you have done, and please do continue.
Please, and I mean, PLEASE, continue writing Midnight Sun and publish it. It’s killing me, literally, because all these sites are saying that it’s supposed to come out in May, and that was almost 4 years ago. So just please, write Midnight Sun and publish it, for the sake of all us Twihards out there
I cannot wait for the Midnight Sun. I have just read the whole series (Yes, I know the books have been out forever already and I am just reading them now) and absolutely LOVE them all. I was so excited to see that you was going to write from Edward’s perspective as i just about immediately started thinking, “what is Edward actually thinking?” throughout all the books. We seen it through Bella’s eyes and Jacob’s but not Edwards which, like I said, I was thinking what it was like for him. So when I seen the rough draft, I was soooo excited! And read them both! (If I would have paid more attention and not gotten so excited I would have noticed that it was “leaked”!) I do have to apologize for reading them before they were finished. I was alittle confused with the mistakes and why it ended so…well not finished-that was when I went back and read about the “leak”. So like I said, I am sorry for reading before you were finished. I was actually looking for more books that you have written because I really really like your style of writing. I think it is unfair of us, as readers and fans, to expect you to just write it and get it over with. I know I haven’t been waiting as long as others (since I just finished all the books) but as someone who has been betrayed (not at all in the same way), the expectations I faced were unfair and only made it harder for myself to move on. As much as I want the book to be finished I respect that it will get done when it is ready to be finished. If that makes any sense? This is not a cheap shot either, but I do really hope it gets done sometime soon, I am in need to escape my own crazy world for a while;) You are a wonderful writer and it is truely sad that someone betrayed your trust in such a disgracful manner. Just remember, the draft you wrote was wonderful-mistakes and all! And your fans cannot wait to see the finished product-hopefully soon:)
The first thing I red from Stephanie Meyer was the posting of Midnight Sun from her website…… Way before I ever saw any of the movies, way before I read any of the other books. I was determined to not “be into” Twilight (I’ve never been into much fantasy writing) but once I read Midnight Sun I was over-the-moon for Edward! So facinated by the intensity and intrique……..I couldn’t get enough. I read it in just over an hour…. and I still can’t stop thinking about it. Stephanie, if you ever read this, please understand………. I GET that you need to be excited about finishing it, to be inspired to write original thoughts, to be so lost in it that you forget all about the unauthorized released, so I don’t want to be pushy. But I have to say that I’m CRAVING Edward’s perspective. I’ve never craved anything about a character before. All I can say is that I hope, beyond all hope, that somehow, you’ll haulucinate Edward’s soft, velvet voice in your ear, telling you to finish. One would hope you wouldn’t have to ride a motorcycle or jump off cliffs to hear his voice =) Thank you for all 4 books, they are mesmerizing. As a fan of non-fiction, you have made me want my own personal vampire/werewolf family to spend eternity with…… Thank you for Bella, for Esme and especially for Alice.
I would love an entire series of backstories……The entire Cullen Clan …..An entire book set like Breaking Dawn ….a book for each character…..imagine that! Nowing the life Edward lived in the 20′s and 30′s how he grew up….his relationship with his mother…how that love transferred to Bella…..I too CRAVE MORE…..it’s so stupid to be so “involved” with a family like this! I am a grown woman! But I seriuously have read the entire series 4 times and still I want more. I want to know ABOUT them…..I want to know if their love endures…how Renesmee turns out….does she grow up and fall in love with Jacob….does she grow up at all… do they have children……I could go on and on and on……Please Stephanie….consider MORE….even if it’s not “Midnight Sun” …….we all just want MORE!!!
I honsetly don’t know what the whole big issue is. Sure, you’re hurt. Anyone would be. But if you know, the Deathly Hallows was leaked a few days before its release too. J K Rowling never let all of it come in the way of giving her fans what they deserved – the book. Why is it SUCH a big deal for you? You hoonestly care more about what your haters think than your fans? Says a lot about the insecurity in you. I don’t mean to be rude, I’d want to read the book as much as any other fan, and I respect the storyteller in you. But this way, you’re losing all the respect you had as a person. Why did you get the twilight sequels published if you were so insecure? And if you weren’t then, why are you now?
Dont you think your readers deserve an answer?
Ok… I too have recently finished reading the Twilight series & was totally absorbed. Even my nine yr. Old son is obsessed. The shameful yet magnificent thing about it (& I really am embarrassed to admit this…) is that my husband pointed out to me that I have never finished a book since we’ve been together. In seventeen years, I never finished one. One of which I was about 5 pages from the end. These books brought me back to reading. I have read the whole series back to back, then Midnight Sun, which I loved even more than Twilight & even though I knew I would be left hanging. Now I am re-reading Twilight to compare the two. I sympathize with Stephanie Meyer & how betrayed she must have felt. I myself would like to physically hurt the person who ruined it for the rest of us. She know the fans are dying for Midnight Sun & I believe she’ll finish it, hopefully sooner rather than later.
I am among the many adults that love the Twilight books. I have my favorites, but I have to say what I have read of Midnight Sun trumps them all a million times over. I loved the sneak peek I was able to get of it so far and like many other fans I have been waiting patiently for 4 years for it to be finished. I understand lacking motivation, and it’s one thing to just not have plans for something even if the fans want it (for example a 5th Twilight book). But this was started by you, it was dangled in front of your fans eyes and then yanked away as if you’re toying with us.
There are always going to be people that criticize your work and that is true of all authors. However you have TONS of fans telling you they loved what they have read so far and they are dying for more. Don’t punish your loyal fans because of critical people and your own laziness. Sorry to be so frank but it is true. Your success depends on your fans, if you continue to make them wait and dissapoint them, you will begin to lose them. We all have jobs that we aren’t always motivated to do, but we have to find some way to get it done and get it done well because we have a boss to answer to. Well your boss is us and we are telling you we’re tired of waiting. Go do whatever it is you have to do to get yourself excited about this project again….lock yourself in a room, go re-read what you’ve written, do some brainstorming exercises…just do something so your fans know you care about this project. Or, put us out of our misery and just decide not to finish it. In the infamous words of my grandfather, sh*t or get off the pot
I Love the Twilight Saga and I under stand that she wants to be excited about writing Midnight Sun. I am a writer and when I’m not excited about writing my writing is horrible so ya. Hope she will finish but I am not pushing her
Please Stephanie, I am begging you! You have amazing writing and I would love to read everything from Edward’s point of view. I want to know everything he was thinking and yeah, I’ll take anything at this point. I seriously want to read some awesome book and if you finished this one….. I would totally have this. Ignore the people who are rude… They’re mean because they just don’t want to actually tell you they love it. We love you! We’re your crazed Twilight fans waiting for you to publish the book! Please! When you think about what all of the haters say, just think, ‘There are millions of others who love me and just want to see me accomplish in making this book. They’re out there…. and they want me to finish.’ There are more people loving you out there than the haters…. And you should know that. So again, please finish this book. There are a lot of others waiting for you, just like I am.
(trying to patiently wait)
PS: WE LOVE YOU STEPHANIE MEYER!!!!!!!!!
You really make your characters come to life. When I read other books, there are few good characters and just so many! Many wind up being flat and underdeveloped. I hope one day, I’ll magnificently write as you do…. I keep hoping for that day I publish a book. So please, use your wonderful gift! Ignore all of those dishonest people and do what you’re well at! WRITE!!!!
My family and I love you Stephanie, you are an incredible writer.
You are without a doubt my all time favorite writer! People dont just read your books, they want to live them. I read the “Midnight Sun leakage” and I must say that I think it will be your best book ever! I really hope you could find it in your heart to finish it for your fans soon! <3
Twilight (and sequels) are without any doubt in my top ten list of books. I love the style, the characters, the topic… You are a great writer, so please don’t listen to all the people who don’t like your books. Some people just don’t know what good books are. Besides, for every hater you get ten fans back! And if you think about it, if they don’t like the books, why do they keep talking about it, even if it’s in a negative way? There are lots of books that are really bad, and you don’t hear anyone complain about those. Something in your books must have gotten their attention? And if they didn’t like it, why did they even read it? You would think people would stop reading if they don’t like a book. So maybe they do like your book, maybe they are just afraid to tell it!
I totally understand you can’t write when you’re not motivated. A good story comes from the heart, not from the head. So if you’re not inspired, you can’t write. I’m sure all the fans will do anything to help you get motivated. So maybe you can tell us what does, and then we can all help!
We all love your books, and hope one day (and the sooner the better) we will put Midnight Sun in our bookcase and think: ‘I’m glad she got to finish that book!’
Stephanie,
I think you are right! You should forget about this idea of Edwards view point. I mean really, enough is enough and you don’t want to drag out and taint the original story. Besides, prove to everyone else that they don’t control you and your work belongs to you. You write when you want, you write what you want, and you release it when you want. Don’t let anyone steal your joy in your writing. You and your writing belong to no one but yourself. Punish them for stealing from your mind. All my best wishes to your future, where ever that takes you.
STEPHANIE!!!!!!…… PORFAVOR,,,,, TERMINA “SOL DE MEDIANOCHE”…..
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Stephanie, I am not a teenager, I am 55 but have always loved vampires. When the movies came out I couldn’t wait to see them, but I know books always have more details so my son got the 1st book twilight for me as a gift. I couldn’t put it down! As soon as I was finished I went straight to the book store and purchased the remaining 3. I read thru them in 2 weeks. I usually am not a reader, but wow! You are amazing! I’m hoping you will continue with Midnight Sun and publish it along with possibly the views of the rest of the Cullen Family. Please since I am actually getting back to reading, keep me informed or if you have in the past wrote any other books regarding vampire love stories, please give me a list so I have something to do. I actually felt empty after finishing the breaking dawn, so I am starting all over again with eclipse, lol. Please don’t let your fans down.