How Stephenie Meyer thinks of Bella

''In my head, Bella is very fair-skinned, with long, straight, dark brown hair and chocolate brown eyes. Her face is heart-shaped—a wide forehead with a widow's peak, large, wide-spaced eyes, prominent cheekbones, and then a thin nose and a narrow jaw with a pointed chin. Her lips are a little out of proportion, a bit too full for her jaw line. Her eyebrows are darker than her hair and more straight than they are arched. She's five foot four inches tall, slender but not at all muscular, and weighs about 115 pounds. She has stubby fingernails because she has a nervous habit of biting them. And there's your very detailed description.''



^Did not make

 

She openly admits that she based Bella off of herself. :/

 

Suuuuuuuue...


Hm...I wonder if her husband realizes that she's having an ongoing vicarious affair with a vampire... :\

 

A lot of writers base their main character off of themselves, sometimes not even consciously. It happens especially when the story is told in the first-person, because the writer makes their character think what they're thinking themselves. (did that make sense?) Considering that Twilight was Meyer's first real novel, I wouldn't doubt if Bella was a carbon copy of herself.

 

Wow Misty, smooth, delete one double post and do it again in the next one xD;;;

 

That's how I roll.

 

And I <3 you for it

 

Deleted post message was interesting, I'll give you that.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?

 

Exactly. I remember reading a J.K Rowling interview a few years ago where she named childhood friends she based some characters off of.
But no one complains about her.

Idk why this made me laugh.

 

I was thinking David Bowie, actually.

 

A few people do this, it's not really much of a crime.

 

Nothing is wrong with using real life people as character inspiration. However if you use yourself to make the main character, and write in first person, the character stops being based upon you and instead becomes a self-insert. This can almost wreck the book on its own, and it quickly degenerates into a Mary-Sue wish fulfilment fantasy.

Y HALO THAR MAYAR

 

She's a barn owl?

 

A lot of people create characters about themselves; and I should know becuase I do it too. These days, I'm making characters as only parts of me. People have done this since the dawn of time because "you" is the person you know best. However, a good author is someone who can step out of themselves and create a different person.

P.S. : If Bella is really based off of Meyer, I don't know why she doesn't have a shrink. I mean, Bella has some issues and cries A LOT. Maybe it would be a different (better) story if it wasn't written in 1st person.

 

Is anyone else thinking about that scene in Mallrats when Stan Lee comes and talks to Bradley Brodie about all of his comic book characters reflecting him?

 

haven't seen it.