About a year ago I borrowed a book from my friend and I finally got around to reading it last night. The story . First of all, it was a vampire story (Not Twilight). And it wasn't even a good one where Edward Bella and rips the bed apart and causes the natives to suspect dirty play, it was a freaking boring one about going to school with a bunch of vampires. That is like, the biggest cliche I have ever heard. It'd be a good fanfic story, It'd be amazing really. Someone write that for me, except make it about girls falling in love with girls because that is what I am in the mood for. straight stories, make it interesting.

No, that BOOK had a Jane trying to run away from school and getting stopped by this perfect being *cough vampire cough* and she falls head over heels in love with this dude. He is the first guy she has ever had romantic feelings for and in the end, I'm pretty sure because I only read the first two chapters and the last page and the acknowledgments page, it works out in their favor. Sort of, he is on the fun from some greater power, but their love is there and that is all that matters.

The book was written by some woman in her thirties most likely, if not the forties, and she characterized teens as unintelligent love crazy people that do anything for their romances. I'm sorry, do I look like someone on the lookout for the perfect person? No, I am here to bash anyone that says I do. BASHING! The character in this story is 16, I am almost 15. I think this character is retarded, if not slightly more intelligent than a dolphin. (IQ of 31, thank you Xiah Junsu) Quote, 'After I got over my initial fear of being tackled by a stranger, this guy was kind of handsome.' Unquote. Please, someone set this girl's head on fire.

The girl was supposed to be shy, like I need to throw up shy, but in the first chapter she meets the stranger vampire dude and she has no problems talking with him. Quote,' I said something I had never said before in my 16 years of living, "Shut... up... for a second!" ' Unquote. WHERE ARE MY FLAMES!?!?!?!?!? You cannot create a character, rather blandly as she has said earlier that she was shy and got those feelings of queasiness, meaning extreme shyness, and just throw away that fact! She suddenly developed a kindling for him.

Pure and innocent  BOY CRAZY!

That happens a lot in the fics here, but no, the fics here just lack professionalism and actual editors to tell them that their story sounds a little on the light side. Thats what makes fics fun to read, the fics are written by people of the same level, some on a lower level, but we can't blame others for being more mature or less mature than what we are used to. There are many authors that I want to sit down with and discuss future possibilities for highering them at my future publishing company. Some are that good. The fics that are pure fanfics I can see that the plots are original or at least intersting enough to read. They are based on people we love, of course I will read them. If I am bored enough, I can read those silly little stories that consist of bad disses and back and forth texting between lovers. I can digest it, in a fanfic.

Hold on, I just read this "why was he enjoying this from a ?" *Clears throat* IT IS NOT IF YOU ENJOY IT! Thank you.

Back on topic, I can't stand those things in a real story because the character first of all pisses me off and there is no reason for me to love them. Unlike in fanfictions, I can't try and love the character for being the way they are. The cynical in this story would not be my best friend if we were to ever meet. I think I would hate her for being so stuck up. She insulted me without even realizing it. The author wrote about stereotypical things like a guy wearing a hawaiian shirt because he was some tanned surfer with long hair and some girl that had her hair cut like a guys but not in a cute pixie style. That offended me. That was how my hair looked until recently when it grew out. Not done professionaly? I am pretty handy with a pair of scissors, thank you very much.

New update, it's not because they submitted to the ... consensual=not . I stand corrected.

If it wasn't for the main characters of these fanfics, or the little side characters, I might not read them at all. At first it was fun to read little stories about them, then it becamse my only means of entertainment. I'm not exaggerating and that is the sad part. Isn't it just amazing to imagine a person you love and know well, in terms of as a fan, being thrown into a sort of alternate reality that makes your heart flutter? Is it amazing to read about a meaningless person find love and you go, what does this mean to me?

The drawing factor of this story was supposed to be the forbidden love coming true and that all happiness can happen. The story was made possible thanks to the power of vampires. The story would have been a million times better without the vampires. If this seemingly normal girl was actually just a hell of an ugly person instead of just not as shiny as her vampire classmates I would be able to relate easier. The plot would flow better, and it would make more sense!

Every single vampire or vampire related story I have read here on AFF or on winglin can beat this book out in terms or creating a plot to go with vampirism. Every single one. You're Welcome.

I said I read the acknowledgements. That is because I wanted to see just how many people helped this author with the story. Well, the idea was given to her by her manager when she said she should write a vampire story. Next her numerous drafters that read through her many manuscripts. And her editors, they helped her by giving her very harsh and needed criticism. That is when I realized that this book was written for 8-12 years olds and I didn't fit this standard at all since tests classify me in the age group, sadly. Yeah, I remember when I was 12 and thought twilight was a great book. I remember when I was 10 and thought Cirque du Freak was genius and Percy Jackson was amazing. At 14 I couldn't read 30 pages into the 3rd Percy Jackson book and the 2nd book took me months to get through. I tried picking up Cirque du Freak again and felt like I was belittled, the character felt like a kid, which he was. I still think Cirque du Freak is a genius series though, personal issues I won't go into. The age level of all these books really go with the content of the book and the level of the protagonist's thinking. The character thinks like a 10 year old and the book is aimed for 10 year old readers, it all works out. The content of the book does not consist of or how to be pretty without make up. It is a really purist style book. For children.

Fanfics are mostly written by teens with the occasional 11 year old making a teen fic. *Hold on here, I still feel like a baby here compared to some of the year olds here. 15 is really nothing and I won't feel mature until I have a steady job, I am not putting down children, I am defending them in my subtle manner. Insults. I'm just kidding.* Often the thinking is what we comprehend and we often think the same way. If an author here, following my great advice, actually stops for a moment and observes everything around them, if even just for a minute, they can create a special paragraph that has the most meaningful thing to us teens/ young adults/ adults/ children/ infants. Published books leave no room for improvement. None.... I lost my train of thought.

You can see the depth of my thinking here, this is how I think. Maybe it is my own little quirky way of thinking, but it isn't obsessed with boys all about being popular. Yeah, in a romance it is like that, but even my thoughts when I was debating the acceptance of the confessions from boys named Hunter weren't completely on that one track. I guess it is because I am apathetic, tune things out, and lose interest in things easily that I wasn't like that with my own romance.

Is it just me? Or is reality like this with others as well?

Anyway, my level of thinking as an almost 15 year old is easily matchable to the characters written by fanfic writers. The young me is not able to connect with a professionally written book because 35 year old women do not remember what it is like to be a teenager. They don't even if they have teenage children themselves.

Congrats for fanfic writers for being able to win over this picky reader. *Claps* You write better teen stories, and they your main characters make me happy. That is all I really ask for in a fiction, fan or professional. They all need to be about Kame...

This was brought about by a discussion I was having with someone on Facebook. I wrote that, then I decided to do a rant, so it is pretty much the same thing except limited to Twilight and how the books are failing on a whole.

Me: It's my sister's birthday

Her: Cool, tell her happy b-day

Me: I did. Vampires!

Her: vampires?

Me: I was reading a story about them. It a lot. I officially hate vampire stories. Officially times a million

Her: yah theyre all the same now....trying to imitate stephanie meyer but they fail epicly!

Me: