It was all pretty far outside my comfort zone. At that point in time, it had been several years of intense engagement with the Twilight world, with a lot of required public interaction. I think that’s pretty common for writers most of us prefer spending time with imaginary characters to facing the real world. For me, it’s not a happy place to be.” Can you elaborate on that, and whether it feels like a risk to you to re-enter that place now? What made it feel like a risk worth taking? You said to Variety in 2013: “I get further away every day. I was sure most of them would have given up by now. I was shocked that people were so excited for Midnight Sun. I’ve never stopped being surprised that so many people respond to something I wrote for just myself. Stephenie Meyer: I wish I had a good answer for this question. The Spinoff: You get asked this all the time, or you used to be, and I wonder whether your answer has changed over the years: why has the story resonated so strongly and for so long? Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen, joylessly, in 2008. My questions were long and complex apparently they were edited by Meyer’s team before they got to her. Top of the pile, and impossible for her to answer, is why do I still fucking love it so much.
Partly because I have so many questions about Twilight, in particular about how it has infiltrated our culture and all the ways in which that worries me.
It was hard to write questions for Meyer, too. She told the New York Times it “was just a huge, pain-in-the-butt book to write … every single word was a struggle”. But Meyer stopped writing when further draft chapters were leaked online, and only finished the project late last year. The first chapter was published in 2008, as a teaser at the end of the original Twilight book. It’s a book that I and the rest of the OG Twihards have been waiting for forever. Midnight Sun is the original Twilight story, except instead of Bella Swan narrating it’s her vampire love, Edward Cullen. Its author told Catherine Woulfe about gender politics, anxiety, and the challenges of writing the Twilight story from Edward Cullen’s perspective.
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