Twilight and 50 Shades: Creative Umbrella

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Last episode covering the Twilight and 50 Shades series AND last episode of Season 2! 🎉🌟

Thank you for being a part of the journey!

Today, we are covering why every creative should appreciate these two series and admire their success, no matter what your opinion of the quality of their body of work may be.

And why, fundamentally, I will always stand up for these two books despite what people may say.

Hopefully, once you realise the good these series did, your opinion will be the same, and we can change the derogative language used against these pieces of creation.

🌟🌸Season 3 starts on June 4th. Can't wait to see you there! 🌸🌟

Scarlett Marie is a true born creative, who has spent her whole life dabbling in the arts and craft, only to find her feet in the world of words whereby she has spent over fifteen years making stories come alive.

Her time and energy has been mainly spent on the series A Royal Life, of which she started drafting when she was fifteen. 

Here on the 'Diary of a Writer' she hopes to show people a peek behind the door of what it means to live as a full-time creative. 

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Alright, so our last discussion about Twilight and 50 Shades, and then this is actually the end of season two. Woo, we made it. So, last thing I wanted to say about these two series was that there is something to be celebrated about these two series being as big as they were slash are. And that is the creative opportunities they created for other creators. You know, whenever we have a piece of creative work become really big like this, it obviously feeds a lot of wealth back to the author and original creator, but it also creates so many opportunities for others. It's like a ripple effect. And this is why it really annoys me how we gatekeep creativity, try and formulate what people want and don't want, and do not support the arts as a whole because if we have something blow up like the way Twilight and 50 Shades did, it just like I said, a ripple effect and the opportunities it creates for others. And what I mean by that is that both these series had movies. These movies required soundtracks. A lot of these movies have original songs for the soundtrack of their films. So we have not just then fed an author with her wealth, we have fed director, behind the scenes casts, actors, costume, makeup, set designers, the whole shebang that involves a movie set. We then look at the soundtrack for the movie, and we're looking at singers and bands, and we're looking at lyricists, and we're looking at music producers, and then we look back at the actors and we look about the opportunities these actors then received from being in something new, like Kristen Stewart and Robert Patterson, who starred in Twilight. Their careers were launched because of the Twilight series. So were a lot of other actresses and actors who appeared in these series. Anna Kendrick is a perfect example. She had a small role in the Twilight franchise, and then after that, she was able to blow out and become a big success and take strong female leads in various other movies. And when we go to 50 Shades, they had a they had Dakota Johnson and and Jamie Dorna. I had kind of known about Dakota, I think, somehow, some way, but I also do think that this movie also did put their names on the map. I haven't actually seen Jamie Dorner do much, but I'm also not really following his career too much, but I have seen Dakota really blow up and become something. So again, when we have successful creators blow up, it creates just so many opportunities for other creators. And then we can always look at the online writing world where fan fiction is well and alive, and how writers are potentially using these characters to harness their own writing power and create their own storylines. Again, someone else's creativity has inspired and helped another person with potential limited creative skills harness their creative power so that maybe one day they can create something that will have an impact just like this series does. I mean, that's the thing when you support creative work like this, it feeds back into itself, right? That that's why we'll never ever really tear these series down because they gained a level of success that most books will never gain. They turned non-readers into readers and they created opportunities across various creative fields that not many creative projects can ever do. That not many creative projects will ever be able to do. No matter what you think of the quality of writing, no matter whether you think these women deserve the success that they gained, these series deserve our appreciation just for that, just for creating these creative opportunities for so many people. And so, as my final note, I'll say, yeah, maybe these series are written badly and maybe they are overrated. But like I said, these stories had an impact on the world in a way. Most of us writers can only dream of seeing happen to our own work. And I think for that, we deserve to give it a lot more respect than what our current culture is actually giving these series because they did do good. Maybe they are not a good product in the sense that they are not of good quality, but the impact they had, the opportunities they created, it was good. That is good because creatives got supported there, creators got opportunities. And to be against that as a creator of yourself, it just makes no sense. It really doesn't.