The writings of New York Times Best Selling author Stephanie Meyer are fundamentally unexceptional to those of Tamora Pierce due to the lack of technique, writing devices, and characterization in Meyer’s books that are cleverly worked into Pierce’s writings. Meyer’s books are not only written poorly, but portray a static, tiresome protagonist and a mind-numbing and repetitious plot in her four most popular works that make up the Twilight Saga. In contrast, Pierce has developed two fantasy worlds and provided a unique storyline for each of her twenty-seven novels. Genre and personal taste aside, the syntax and technique of Meyer is poor compared to Pierce’s seasoned writing proficiency.
Meyer’s technique of writing can be compared to that of a beginning writer because of the lack of editing; in …show more content…
Pierce writes action in a style that keeps the readers’ interest while simultaneously moving the plot along at a smooth pace; for example, she wrote “Kel dodged left, still between him and the escape, and stepped in with a long slash across his middle. He blocked it with his cutlass and hacked down at Kel’s head.” (“Squire” 82) Meyer, on the other hand, says very little in several lines of text. For example, Meyer stated that three actions happened in nearly fifty words: “I heard, as if from underwater, the final growl of the hunter. I could see, through the long tunnels my eyes had become, his dark shape coming toward me. With my last effort, my hands instinctively raised to protect my face. My eyes closed, and I drifted.” (Meyer 451) Meyer has a monotonous habit of overwriting in every one of her books. Pierce would have written the same actions but it half the amount of words, leaving more pages open for real action. Meyer has also proved to use unreliable punctuation and grammar, while Pierce uses correct syntax where they are intended to be. The semicolon is the most obvious example of the gap of
Meyer’s technique of writing can be compared to that of a beginning writer because of the lack of editing; in …show more content…
Pierce writes action in a style that keeps the readers’ interest while simultaneously moving the plot along at a smooth pace; for example, she wrote “Kel dodged left, still between him and the escape, and stepped in with a long slash across his middle. He blocked it with his cutlass and hacked down at Kel’s head.” (“Squire” 82) Meyer, on the other hand, says very little in several lines of text. For example, Meyer stated that three actions happened in nearly fifty words: “I heard, as if from underwater, the final growl of the hunter. I could see, through the long tunnels my eyes had become, his dark shape coming toward me. With my last effort, my hands instinctively raised to protect my face. My eyes closed, and I drifted.” (Meyer 451) Meyer has a monotonous habit of overwriting in every one of her books. Pierce would have written the same actions but it half the amount of words, leaving more pages open for real action. Meyer has also proved to use unreliable punctuation and grammar, while Pierce uses correct syntax where they are intended to be. The semicolon is the most obvious example of the gap of