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ok so have any of you heard about MIDNIGHT SUN by STEPHENIE MEYER its just like TWILIGHT except only its EDWARD'S side of the story this time.You can read a few chapters if you go to thw website www.thetwilightsaga.com

Yeah, Midnight Sun is famous (in the Twilight community, at least). It was a big scandal because an early draft of it got leaked, so Stephenie decided to put it on hold for an "indefinite" amount of time. It's surprising that you haven't heard of it; like I said, it's a big deal. A lot of fans organized shows of support for her to try to get her to pick it up again, but so far, it hasn't worked. My personal theory is that she just got worn out from and overwhelmed by her sudden fame (and the stresses that came with it), and sort of burned out. I kind of got the impression reading Breaking Dawn that she was just tired of writing this story and was trying to just get it over with, and when the leak happened, she grabbed onto it as an excuse to put the whole thing on hold. But that's just me. Anyway...

I don't know how many chapters are at www.thetwilightsaga.com, but there are also quite a few chapters on Stephenie's website, www.stepheniemeyer.com. Here is the latest (to my knowledge) public comment that Stephenie has issued in regards to Midnight Sun:

I've found that there really isn't any answer I can give that changes the substance or tenor of the myriads of requests, pleadings, and demands I get for Midnight Sun to be finished, so I feel a little silly answering that question at all. But it's the most popular question, so I'll take another stab at it.

I am not working on Midnight Sun now. I don't have a plan for when I'll get to it; I don't know now what the right time for it will be.

In your questions, there were some erroneous conclusions about the situation which I'll try to set straight. First, Midnight Sun is not finished and locked in a safe, waiting for me to be done angsting over the leak. If it were done, I would be throwing it on the bookstore shelves myself. I'd love to be able to give it to all the people who are anxiously waiting for it. Second, I am not upset about the leak. I haven't been for a long time; I was over it after about three weeks. Third, and most important, I am not trying to punish anyone. Not the persons who leaked it, not the people who read the leak, nobody. As I said, it would make me very happy to be able to give it to anyone who wants it.

So why the hold up? Because it's not finished and lying in a safe. It's not done, and finishing it is not a simple matter of sitting down in front of my computer and typing out the words; the words have to be there in my head to type out, and right now, they're not. I have to be in the zone to write any story, and trying to force myself into that zone is a waste of time, I've found. I'll get back to Midnight Sun when the story is compelling to me again. Just because people want it so badly does not make it more write-able; kind of the opposite, actually. I need to be alone with a story to write, and Midnight Sun feels really crowded, if you know what I mean.

People write for different reasons. I have always written to make myself happy. If I'm enjoying a story, feeling the creativity flow, engrossed in a world, then I write and I write fast. If I'm not into it, I can't write. I've never been someone who writes on demand and I can't imagine working that way. As cool as it would be to say to my favorite author, "You know, I'd really like to read a great book about a narwhal mafia. Write that for me, 'kay?" or even "I'd love a sequel to that last one," that's not how it works. How it works is that my favorite author writes a new book about whatever he/she is interested in. Maybe it takes a year, maybe it takes five. If it's something I want to read, I buy it or I check it out at the library. If not, I find something else to read. The end.

(All of this goes for writing about vampires in general, too. Vampires and I? We're on a break.)

I'm pretty sure this won't slow the pleadings and the demands, but I didn't want you to think I was ignoring the question.

The end isn't written yet.

Why? Stephenie put it on her website specifically so people could read it without feeling guilty.

I'm not going to read it because I don't see the point since it's basically Twilight from Edward's P.O.V and we know most of what happens and quite frankly I don't like reading a book that will probably never be finished. I'm the same way with fanfics. If it looks good but says it's been discontinued or put on a hiatus I skip over it instead.

Ah. I know what you mean about the fanfics. There are few things more depressing than finding a good story, only to discover that it's not being updated any more. crying

Still, even though we know what happens plot-wise in MS, it's interesting to get inside Edward's head. Plus, we get to see character interactions that we don't see from Bella's POV (for example, we get a closer look at Edward's relationship with Carlisle, and we see interactions between Edward and Emmett, and Edward and Tanya). I think that's interesting. But maybe that's just me. I tend to be interested in things other people think are boring...

I spend a lot of time in guilds but I don't always post. Sometimes I lurk and read what other people have written.

@Glitterbean: I don't think that Meyer even had an editor when she wrote the books; from what I've heard, she's got that dreaded bloated ego. I think her problem is that she based it off of a dream, and then decided to try and go from there; but didn't actually take into account that she needed to structure a plot from that. I have nothing against where she got the idea from, but the way she's talked about how she wrote it – and how she wrote it – I have very little faith in her as being a good author.

Oh, I've been a member of this guild for a long time, and I've seen it go from a crazy, bustling place, to the desolate landscape that it is now. It's a bit sad, but I've met a few people over at the official discussion thread (ignoring the crazies), and in the anti-thread, surprisingly.

As for my fanfiction, the banner in my signature leads to my currently huge project that I've carried on from NaNo of last year, Complexity. I'm going to have to warn you ahead of time of this but... I do not write canon fanfiction. Everything on my FF.net account – Twilight Zephyr – is uncanon, and you can find links to my fanfiction on my LJ too, and there's a link to that on my profile at FF.net.

Currently, my ships are thus: Marcus/Seth, Edward/Jasper, and Jasper/Jacob. I've got several fics that I'm currently working on, and a few completed ones, so you're free to check them out. Just please leave me some indication of what you thought, yes? I'm always looking for ways to improve, and if you spot any errors, feel free to point those out too.

For FF.net, I've stuck to what I know, and that's slash. Generally, you find a lot of very good authors in the Twilight slash scene. Other then that, I would suggest hunting up a few other fandoms that are a little more established, or just heading over to LJ. I've noticed a lot of really amazing authors are very active there or on other sites.