Melina On Writing: Intro {The Standard of Books}

The intro to my writing advice playlist.
This is about the Standard of Books and how it need to be risen.
Hope you will enjoy.

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Tags:

• writing
• advice
• young
• adult
• novels
• writers
• annoying
• twilight
• good
• bad
• books
• gossip
• girl

[Ishta5]

the book is good if it fits into your rules thus the best book would be made by computers programmed with these. The book made me think, dream and smile but did not follow these rules thus it is shit. These rules make stories predictive. Knew how HP would end from book two and was certain by book four but enjoyed everything.These rules are the future cliché and exceptions to the rule original.

[MelinaPendulum]

@Ishta5 My rules are not mandatory nor do I think they are the only way or the right way, they are just guidelines I follow that help me. :) I have enjoyed your input, btw and I mean that honestly.

[Nades129]

I disagree. I didnt read when I was a kid, now I read a lot. Generalizations doesn't work well.

[MelinaPendulum]

Not always, but sometimes their are exceptions

[Blandishment]

However, I think people should read whatever they want even if it's not "good." Literature is just not a priority for many people. And I really do believe that it's better for people, both children and adults, to read crap than to read nothing at all.

[MelinaPendulum]

I disagree, if people only read crap then all they are doing are are perpetuate the trend of second-rate books that have been flooding the market and are being eaten up by young people who have no desire to read anything stronger than a romance.

[celestialcity9]

Hey I'm a writer too and I'm pretty impressed by your points of view. I agree about the standard of books these days; I think publishers have a responsibility to think twice about the crap books they foist on the young. Well done and keep writing! :)

[traffictragedy03]

Same thing with music. There's good music and music we like.

[SacredCarvings]

i've watched several of your video Queen. i'm sure you heard this before...but you are decisively intelligent. Black women who read like you are so Kemetic :)

[cherub4eva2]

Wow; i love most of the books you listed. I enjoyed all of them, but reading books really gives mme doubts about my own writing ability. I'm working on my own series! :)

[Mimi2591]

Ele. and middle school I started to become an avid reader and borrow books all the time from the library. I have no idea how or why, but when I picked up Twilight I was just reading text. It was almost like an out-of-body experience for me, I would read the book, it would make sense, but nothing really registered of the events. Nothing *jumped out* for me to be excited. Looking back now, that is really weird and did not help me think critically. Looking at these new books, it is disheartening.

[nekonya96]

Sad to say, this whole video is the same message Fahreinheit 451 gives.

[witbeyondmeasure7]

@EMG2011 So it's like McDonalds.

[crazygreen89]

What would you think of Pretty Little Liars then? Even though it looks like a teen trash novel that has readers because of suspense, it does have a reoccuring themes and ideas concerning karma, the human desire for perfection, and lies