As promised, I’m going to be posting a lot of the early drafts of Extras. Here’s installment #1 in that project: the very first thing I can find on my hard drive.
As you will see, it’s not really a “draft,” just a blob of text that has almost nothing to do the final story. Except that it’s about face ranks and fame, and that Hiro’s in it. I’m pretty sure I wrote it in Thailand.
Now you may remember this post back in January, where I explain that Extras was originally written from Hiro’s point of view. In this ancient draft Aya doesn’t even exist yet; Hiro has no little sister, just an old friend named Terra who’s good at schemes and inventions. (Sort of like Ren in the final version.)
This opening may not make much sense on its own, but it does show how much things can change from first draft to last. Hopefully it will remind you all that there is no good writing, only good rewriting.
Here we go . . . chapter one of “From First Draft to Final: The Extras Story!”
Down and Out
Hiro awoke to a bright sky, the heavy clouds like burnished gray metal. He rubbed his eyes, yawned, and gave the room his usual command.
“Darker, and show my count.”
The window opaqued, and numbers appeared on the wall. Hiro sighed softly as he stared at the digits. Overnight, he’d slipped out of the top ten thousand.
That’s what came of sleeping late.
“Anything on the feeds?” he asked.
The screen flickered for a moment, then coughed up mentions. Season recaps, old arguments about the playoffs bubbling up, a few littlies chattering about his new haircut. No snaps, no video—another day of the border of invisibility.
He took a slow breath, reminding himself that it was always like this during the off-season. While his team was playing—and winning—Hiro’s face count never left the top five thousand. But once the playoffs ended, his personal flock of hovercams flew off to stalk politicians, soccer players, and surge designers. Hoverball stars were forgotten by the time the cherry blossoms fell, and the annual One Percent Party always remained out of reach.
This year, though, Hiro Torrent had a plan to change all that.
“Ping Terra,” he told the room.
A chime sounded a few seconds later, the scattering of bells and bird whistles that was his best friend’s signature. Hiro pressed his palms together. “Good morning, Terra-chan.”
“Morning? Did you just wake up?”
“Um, sort of. Didn’t sleep well last night.”
“Nervous about our little trick today?” Her voice sounded amused.
He frowned, wondering if she could see his rumpled pajamas, the pillow lines on his face. His ring was set to privacy, but Terra had ways of tricking the city interface.
Of course, she might just be reading his mind. She’d known him since they were littlies, and she was generally too clever for her own good. Or Hiro’s.
“Are you sure this will work?”
Terra giggled. “It will unless you mess it up, Hiro-chan.”
He sat up and stretched, seeing the trick in his mind, imagining his muscles making all the right moves. “Don’t worry about me.”
“I’m not worried, chan. As long as a Certain Person isn’t already awake by now and sucking up all the hovercams.”
Hiro snorted. “Is that supposed to motivate me?”
“As if you need me for motivation. Have you checked your fame today?”
One of Terra-chan’s annoying habit was using the old word for face counts—fame. But the two were different, really. The way the teachers told it, Rusty fame had been shallow, subjective, and bogus more often than not. But a face count was real, like your height or a hoverball score; it was a statistic, not someone’s guess.
Of course, Certain People were totally bogus, no matter how high their face counts climbed. That’s why he and Terra never said their names out loud: the city interface gave someone face every time you mentioned them.
The teachers said it was bubbleheaded to worry about anyone else’s face count. But they didn’t have to play hoverball alongside Yoshi Cloud.
“I just woke up,” Hiro mumbled.
Terra giggled again, like a littlie full of sugar. “Are you lying to me, Hiro-chan? You know you checked your count already.”
“I didn’t say I hadn’t checked it,” he said, rolling out of bed.
“But you implied it.”
“And now I’m implying otherwise. I’ll see you later—when it’s done.” He cut the connection before Terra could answer, then snapped at the window to brighten. The wallscreen glinted, reflecting the bright gray sky.
His count flickered there, right on the edge between two numbers. Finally it settled on the higher one, determining that Hiro Torrent was currently the 10,910th most talked-about person in the city.
Still falling, and the day had hardly started.
Present-day Scott here again: Whoa! This is the first time I’ve looked at that in about a year. Many obvious things are different: face counts instead of face ranks, Hiro’s last name is Torrent instead of Fuse, and he’s still a hoverball player instead of a kicker. It’s almost scary to think how much work had yet to be done, both in writing and conceptualizing the book. It makes me want to take a nap.
Anyway, I’ll be posting more of these, showing the way the book took shape over the next few months. Hope you enjoy them.
And I also hope to see lots of you at Books of Wonder on this rainy Saturday. Don’t forget: 3PM!
October 28th, 2007 04:10
Wow, I’m really impressed to see how the story’s developed!
(I prefer Aya’s view a lot more, though) :3
October 28th, 2007 04:20
yeah that i never would have guessed how that would go to extras at the end of the book
and what was their trick…?
October 28th, 2007 04:23
Whoa…wierd, having it from Hiro’s POV. and when it said ‘Torrent’ I was like…huh? I like it from Aya’s POV better.
And just an off-topic sidenote or whatever, the fanlib Extras contest is a lot smaller than I expected. I like just looked at it.
October 28th, 2007 04:49
yes! can’t wait to read this.
*goes to read this*
i am irrationally fascinated with the publishing/writing process, as a writer myself. wow, that sounds pretentious. i’m gonna go read it now.
October 28th, 2007 04:53
Wow. I have yet to read Extras, but it seems like quite a LOT can change in the writing process, eh? I’ve never really thought about how much work it must be to write a book. I guess I just have this pre-determined idea that authors have this clear image of what they’re going to write about when they start such a project, but this is further proof to the contrary. It’s nice to see things like this once in a while, as opposed to authors being like “ew, old stuff, this thing sucked before I edited it.”
Thanks for sharing this with us, Scott :]
October 28th, 2007 04:55
cool. i like the blurry cover too. also ovsessed with graphicness.
fuse is a much better last name than torrent.
terra is a pretty cool name, but ren is fawesomer. yes, i am also obsessed with names.
and the sports-star thing is kinda interesting.
another interesting note—they’re both using “chan” to talk to each other, so it’s more like the -wa and -la than the face rank indicator it becomes in the later version.
and it’s called the One Percent Party, not the Thousand Faces Bash. cool to watch these little things change.
and that’s not THAT bad. i agree that aya’s a more effective narrator though.
October 28th, 2007 05:06
wow.
that’s interesting…
October 28th, 2007 05:16
It’s soo fawesome to see the differences. Now I want to know all about Terra and Hiro’s haircut. I like how the first chapter also starts off with doing a trick. I’d say more stuff but I have to go.
October 28th, 2007 05:37
Thats cool! You should totally make an alternate “Extras” based off of this beginning.
October 28th, 2007 05:42
very foolio. thats funny. “Torrent”. hehe. i wonder what the “big trick” is. oh well. i guess we’ll be finding out soon enough!
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
October 28th, 2007 06:20
Wow, really different.
You really changed some stuff around Scott.
But i liked it.
Hiro seemed way differnt than the way i imagined him in Extras, but it was alright.
My english teacher told me, that every author has theirs proofread and have sometimes rewritten it a few times. Yeah, i still Love extras, but this is good too.
October 28th, 2007 06:37
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October 28th, 2007 06:46
yes! i agreee with allie-wa fully! food! water! air! light! midnighters!
i have only one thing to add. darkling werewolves!
come on scott-la….you can write a manic NaNoWriMo-style darkling werewolf book. just give darkling werewolves a chance.
we’ll stop bugging you….promise.
i’ll buy truckloads of copies til it tops the new york times bestseller list……..
and if u’ve read through BLUE NOON and think there should be a fourth one, CLICK MY NAME. that includes u, scott-la. we’ve got some pretty persuasive reasons. and quite a bit of support. and green-ness….
we have rabid fangrrls. beware our power.
October 28th, 2007 06:52
hmm i just finished twilight and am having some issues with werewolves.. however more midnighters would be fool… ok two preesing matters….how should i post a special pic of me…. on the site…and two i was trying to read risen empire and like dont get so not fawesome
October 28th, 2007 07:00
OMG, I totally love it.
So, was the story going to be about Hiro at first, then swiched to Aya?
Kadie-Wa
October 28th, 2007 07:18
Uhhhh, it was, good? Im sorry Scott-la, i cant lie, it stinked! Im glad u changed it. I like the book Extras exacly how it is, i cant image it other wise, see you were wise enough to change it! Thanks again Scott for getting m to read, lots of thanks!
October 28th, 2007 07:26
It was ok. I like how Extras is now better. By the way: EXTRAS ROCKED OUT LOUD!!!!! anyways, yeah….
October 28th, 2007 07:29
well darkling werewolves would be much cooler than stephenie meyer werewolves. much better werewolf portrayals = wereling trilogy (best ever, even if most of the werewolves are evil, blood and chocolate (duh), and minor characters in CITY OF BONES! (see, i told you it was the best book ever)
i kinda get mad at stephenie meyer sometimes (ok, a lot. see book crack/bella get a spine/jacob is way better rants) whenever i discuss vampires or werewolves with my friends they’re like, vampires’ eyes turn black when they’re hungry. and i’m like, STEPHENIE MEYER VAMPIRES do. if u read amelia atwater-rhodes, they always have black eyes. or in a lot of books there’s no change to thier eyes at all.
there ARE OTHER VAMPIRES BOOKS THAN TWILIGHT! it is not the gold standard of the vampire mythos. i’m not even sure there is one, unless, of course, the original Bram Stoker Dracula. which is more the classic vampire. versus the neo-classical, which is everyone coming up with reasons for/denying all those things.
same thing with werewolves, though her interpretation of them is more classical. or neo-classical. neo-class weres usually have true man-to-wolf transformations, not halfway hairy Wolfman style. which i ttly approve of.
wow, sorry about the really long post. as i have proved earlier in this thread, i am obsessed with many things. mythology is one of them. as is werewolves. and to a lesser extent vampires. and underground cities, eclipses, the weather, guy’s hair styles, undergroundish music, and winged people.
also, i read a lot. a lot. a lot of vampire/werewolf books. a lot of urban fantasy.
****side note—i’m empty of things to read! anyone with good YA urban fantasy book recs, help me out here. i’m up for trying just about anything. downside is that i’ve read pretty much all the mainstream stuff. all scott-la’s books, and justine’s, and maureen johnson’s, and holly black’s, and libba bray’s, and stephenie meyer’s and amelia atwater-rhodes’. i always love suggestions!****
and yeah. yeah, i’m gonna shut up now. this post is really long. *shuffles back to tithe fanart*
oh btw, Kadie-Wa, according to the tales of Quasi-Woe, that’s pretty much how it ran. like it started as Hiro’s story but it sucked and then became Aya’s.
Scott-la! fourth midnighters darkling werewolves! click the name! click it! please!
October 28th, 2007 07:31
wow, that was even longer than i suspected.
and yeah bran-la, that’s sorta the point of why it was an old version. scott-la was smart and went with the fawesome final draft instead. i think it was a cool window deal into how much it’s changed.
October 28th, 2007 07:48
schzeeshzh! Co-Prez-la, you seem VERY talkative today. hehe. your like “bla bla bla. ok im talking to much i’ll stop. oh i almost forgot! bla bla bla.” hehe. your so bubbly-making.
CLICK ON MY NAME! CHASING MIDNIGHT WEREWOLVES HQ! JOIN! COMMENT! RITE A FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS!
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
October 28th, 2007 07:50
ha. it’s cuz i’m being bored and on the computer. but i’m really stopping to focus on my photoshop window now. reeeaaally. even if i have to unplug my modem.
CHASING MIDNIGHT WEREWOLVES OUT!
October 28th, 2007 07:57
so fawesome scott! I LOVE that so much has changed. so fool.
October 28th, 2007 08:42
how do you make the moving smily face?
October 28th, 2007 09:02
Ya, but you know how you do something and yours so proud, then you go to your friend and she goes, “Uh, yeah, its….great.” (smiles shyly), and you go “I know Fantabulous, right!”, then you look at it again and all of a sudden it isnt your best, i hope thats wat you did Scott-la, you realized it wasnt your best, i like Extras!
October 28th, 2007 09:21
wow!!! thats very kick!!!! Hiro? a hoverball star??? wow i cant believe that was the first draft! i wonder wat the book was like if you kept the first draft was the final draft. *hmmm*** awesome job Scott!!!
October 28th, 2007 09:22
yeah. like when u read stuff that u wrote a while ago and are like, wow. i thought this was good at the time. but the stuff i’m doing now, it’s SO MUCH BETTER! i get that a lot. or else i read my old stuff and get shocked at how good it actually was.
October 28th, 2007 09:27
ya i wrote this really long story and i thougt it was so good and i look back and im like, ewww, wat was i thinking!
October 28th, 2007 11:06
Read the description of the people here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=489653&in_page_id=1965
That’s slightly creepily sounding sort of like the Uglies books.
October 28th, 2007 11:25
hey! your names lizzy two! hehe. im better tho. hehe. just kiddin.
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
October 28th, 2007 11:43
yeah somebody (was it u other lizzy?) posted that story b4. creepy gnome-ppl.
scaring me that they’re actually equating the future to HG Wells’ The Time Machine. i just think of that as a movie with monkey suits…….
October 28th, 2007 11:58
Wow… that was… interesting. really! it was!
it’s is amazing how much a story can change!
hehe this is a teeny bit off-subject, but there’s a character in Fruits Basket (manga/anime) named Hiro (Sohma)! He’s the sheep.
and… there was something else… but i forgot… okaaay… grr. 
hehe
October 28th, 2007 12:00
not 2 mention hiro from heroes. who is from japan.
there was also a ren on heroes. but he was like a minor dude in the online graphic novel, so i may have been the only one to notice.
October 28th, 2007 12:09
The human subspecies thing really disturbed me when I read it a couple days ago. Now I shudder whenever I see people too absorbed in technology and modern stuff because the article on BBC says the ugliness will be caused by too much dependence on technology. *shudders*
And Rex in BLUE NOON was like…just like me nowadays (’nowadays’ as in like the past 2 days).
Which reminds me (testing some html) FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS WITH DARKLING WEREWOLVES!!!!!!! please please
October 28th, 2007 13:01
Dude. That’s really good.
Is it wrong that, for that chapter at least, I enjoyed Hiro’s perspective more than Aya’s?
October 28th, 2007 14:19
Cool, but I liked it better from Aya’s point of view. What was the trick?? Can’t wait to read more. One question, someone please answer: How exactly does the -la -wa thing work? How did they decide which was la and which was wa???
October 28th, 2007 14:26
darkling werewolves! and my scaring-myself-by-emulating-midnighters-character is Melissa. but a Secret Hour Melissa, not a Touching Darkness or Blue Noon one.
i’m reeeaally antisocial sometimes.
October 28th, 2007 14:38
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=489653&in_page_id=1965
Now that is creepy!
October 28th, 2007 15:17
Wow that was soo cool!! Crazy to see the first draft! There are major changes from the first to the final it will be cool to see the process. I liked the Thousand Faces Bash better than the one percent party other than that everything was just so diffrent.
Side note: Twilight has become a stndard with YA books just like Uglies and HP. They are books that always come up when you talk about what to read.
October 28th, 2007 23:43
that was a real interesting chapter, scott-la….okay
i’ll admit it….i really like aya better……but u have me hooked 
when r u gonna put the next chapter 
darkling werewolves sound SO kick 
hmm…how can u write from a cake’s pov 
naughty naughty scott-la! u should have known that ur loyal fans would: a) want another book, and b) NOT want it to be about CAKE 
u know that we’ll stay by u, even if u do have 2 write about cake….just make sure that the last word is something INTERESTING 
oh, and the -la -wa thingey works like, if u have an l in ur name, u have -wa, and if u dont have a l in ur name, u have -la…pretty bubbly, huh
well, im waiting 4 the next chapter…or, hopefully A FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS BOOK
or maybe a fifth uglies book would be incredibly icy too
grr….jking
-Riderchild-wa
October 29th, 2007 00:35
I was at the book signing thanks!!!!
October 29th, 2007 00:36
yeah, somebody linked to that before. freaky.
and i know it’s become a standard, but it bothers me because everyone’s got so close-minded. rrrrggg. u have taken over the world, stephenie meyer.
October 29th, 2007 00:49
OMG GUESS WHAT!
Uglies is nominated as Virginia Reader choice like ms part. when i saw that in my school library i started jumping up and down(silentyl for i was in a library)
im glad Extras is from Aya POV and i like Fuse a lot better than torrent
October 29th, 2007 01:53
Answer to comment 35: no, you decide if your name fits better with la or wa, or if you like tally better do wa, and if you like shay do la, its just how you decide u want it.
October 29th, 2007 02:40
cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome job! Is there any info on auditioning for Tally in the Uglies movie?
October 29th, 2007 02:40
Thats is Soo cool!!!!!!! though i like aya’s pov better!!!!!!
now i realy don’t want to do my ELA Vocab!!!!! Awwwww Man!!!! i would so rather be reading!!!!!!!!
Serafina Zane You sould read Daughters of the moon, Sisters of isis, and sons of the dark. i think you might like them
October 29th, 2007 03:31
i realy should be reading my midnighters but for some reason i cant make my self get up, im lazy!
October 29th, 2007 03:41
I think I remember you telling us that the character you wrote the POV from you didn’t like.
There are a bunch of major changes in there, I like how the book turned out tho.
October 29th, 2007 04:28
This is so cool. I was so wondering about those thousands and thousands of words you threw out. I love seeing the before and after, so to speak, and what bits made it into the final draft.
October 29th, 2007 07:20
hmm….i like aya’s pov better, but this version is okay….
oh, and comment 35: it’s not whether u like it one way or the other…..if u have a l in ur name, u have -wa, if u dont have a l in ur name, it’s -la…..
i tried posting a million times, but it just didnt work….
-Riderchild-wa
October 29th, 2007 08:13
ok. stuffs getting overzealously confussing cause now theres too Amys and too Lizzys. of course, ones Amy-la and ones Lizzy-wa. those are the kool ones by the way…no offense other Lizzy. you have a fawesome name! oh. no offense other Amy ether.
about the wa la thingy. kindof Riderchild-wa’s idea. but not. if there is a l in the middle or end, then its wa. if there isnt, its wa. BUT! if there isnt a l in the middle or end, but it sounds better, ask around, people will help you decide, then you can still do wa. or chan. or sensei. or sama. but wa and la are foolier.
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
October 29th, 2007 09:21
Wow.
I just finished raeding Extras yesterday, and I have to say, I’m not sure I could see the book turning out anything the same if it had been Hiro as the main character.
Ahh it’s so freaky to think about!
And I’m pretty sure that the version featuring Aya was better :]
October 29th, 2007 09:47
Wow! That’s a lot of changing. Like the whole main character was changed, and so many little details.
Ugh… but the final product was amazing. =]
October 29th, 2007 10:08
This comment is unrelated to this blog post but i write it nonetheless.
My favorite contest entries in the fanlib contest so far, no particular order:
*http://www.fanlib.com/s/A_New_Era/3079m7 – A New Era
http://www.fanlib.com/s/_/2soo46 – We’ll make it up as we go along
*http://www.fanlib.com/s/Big_Brother/2sl3sq – Big Brother
*http://www.fanlib.com/s/Really__Really_Dizzy_Making/301rqf – Really Realyl Dizzy Making.
October 29th, 2007 10:10
My comment is awaiting moderation???????? why oh why oh no why is it doing this??? The world is going to end and i really hope this comment doesn’t publish.
October 29th, 2007 10:43
That is so weird. Why did my second comment publish when my first one didn’t?
Click my name! and this: http://chasingmidnightwerewolves.wordpress.com/
October 29th, 2007 10:43
Allie-wa, all the comments are published, unless your computer is weird and wont let your comment go through.
October 29th, 2007 10:47
Well then my computer is weird. Things like that happen all the time.
oh well.
October 29th, 2007 10:58
ok, my new video is now on youtube. it is about scott’s books. to axcess it , click on the link. http://youtube.com/watch?v=Rdh3×8uBfX0
October 29th, 2007 11:00
i just tried that link and it didnt work. i will try it again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdh3×8uBfX0
October 29th, 2007 11:11
you know what, just click on my name and you will go to my blog. then click where it says (on the side) my YouTube account. then you shoud see my account (with Aya in the backround) and it is the video called Westerfeld Towers
October 29th, 2007 11:12
Aww Scott-la! You totally should have kept Terra! My name can also be spelled “terra” (and subs often do)! That would have been SO kick!
October 29th, 2007 12:33
hi but gtg
Steph-la over+out
October 29th, 2007 13:06
Where do you find the inspiration for the names in your books.
I love them all.
*so jealous-making*
October 29th, 2007 13:24
the story has developed so much…so different, yet so the same! it was so cool, though…if you had built off of that draft, you wouldv’e had a completely different story!
is there any way humanly possible you can come to south florida? like, near miami or west palm?
October 29th, 2007 13:25
by the way, my best friends name is eden marcu. MARCU. same first name, and a lousy one word difference in the last name!! how wierd is THAT?
October 29th, 2007 14:41
you mean one letter rite zoe-la?
Amy-la. love the tower. your so funny. hehe. ive gotta go try that now.
Allie-wa. way to sho support!
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
October 29th, 2007 14:46
by the way. EXTRAS IS 191 ON AMAZON! GOOOOOOOOOOO EXTRAS! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! face ranks rule! hehe.
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
October 29th, 2007 21:00
wow
it has made a GREAT amount of changes since this stage :]
it would actually be cool if you did something like writing the same book, but in someone elses point of view
like uglies, but in shays point of view
because for some reason ive seen alot of hating on shay and i just dont find that fair
people just dont understand her
actually another author, stephenie meyer, is doing that
shes re-writing her first book twilight, in the character edwards point of view
so i just thought it would be REALLY awesome if you did something like that
love, mari-wa
xxx
October 30th, 2007 03:21
I JUST finished Extras and refused to read that passage until I was finally done. Big difference, dude. I think I might like Hiro a little more…? But I’m more partial to the male perspective for some reason.
Either way, Extras was great. Interesting ending with Tally and David, there. Quite liked the ‘Extras’ pun. Hmmmmm. I am very tired and need to mull it over longer. I was up until like… 4:00 AM reading it and then had to get up at 8 AM for class. Hum dee dum.
October 30th, 2007 03:43
I am in love with the uglies series, but have’nt read the extras yet. So don’t give it away to the rest of us who have’nt read tyhe extras. p.s. i love you scott!!!!
October 30th, 2007 03:44
hi y’all still love you scott!!!
October 30th, 2007 03:45
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October 30th, 2007 08:22
that’s crazy. and awesome. crazy awesome, even.
my school’s library pre-ordered extras and it didn’t come in until about the 15th. i was finished by the following monday [i would have been finished earlier if not for school getting in the way]. it was wonderful. and i loved the twist on the title. and the ending with tally and david. i’m hoping to buy the trilogy boxed set and extras because i love them so much. :]
also, i’m in a printing class and i just recently printed a special circumstances zip hoodie for myself. and i plan to be a special for halloween.
i’ll send you pictures of the hoodie, and possibly my “flash tattoos” as soon as i can.
October 30th, 2007 08:39
Wow, long day, lots of homework, finished most of it in class, but still. Getting close to the ending of Midnighters 2, love the second one better, more happens. So, ya, i guess. You guys most be 1 hour or so ahead of me on the time zone. I get on Scott-las blog and think, “Man, these people must be ahead, i just got out!”. O well, its fun sometimes, having friends who only judge you my personality. Not that im ugly (i find myself very pretty!) but sometimes you need those ppl who love you for….. you! I have friend at my school, dont get me wrong, i love them all dearly, but sometimes, they can get annoying (not you Alexa). Lol. Shes my bestest friend! I love all my Scott-la fan friends!
October 30th, 2007 08:40
When i said friend i meant friends! Yes, i have more than one!
October 30th, 2007 08:59
I agree with likeing the 2nd midnighter’s book better.
I liked the first one— but it was mostly about just telling the basics of the blue time setting it up for more books, and the Second one had more plot in it.
I LOVE THEM ALL !!!!
They are so crazy-making.
yes.
October 30th, 2007 09:10
hehe. im having a bday party themed with Scott-la, and all my friends have to read UGLIES and THE SECRET HOUR in order to come. its my way of making sure they all read them.
so far they all think Midnighters are wierd. what do they no?!
-Lizzy-wa OUT!
October 30th, 2007 09:23
I saw the weirdest thing today (okay – not the weirdest, but pretty close) There was a guy. Reading. On top of that, he was reading Specials. I have never, ever seen a guy read Specials before. And happy bday, Lizzy-wa. When is it?
October 30th, 2007 10:31
I tried to get my cousin to read scott westerfeld books he said they were chick books and he would never read anything I liked. How brain-missing is that!
October 30th, 2007 10:40
scott, i just have one question: why does that make you want to take a nap? it’s such a completely random thing to say, and it’s got me confused!!!!! oh, and by the way, PLEASE WRITE A FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS BOOK!!!!! PLEEEEEAAAASE!!!!! yes, you can count that as begging. i know. i’m pathetic. it’s what i do.
October 30th, 2007 10:57
Okay, it got WAY better from Aya’s POV. And I didn’t even like her, because I was too busy missing Tally-sama.
October 30th, 2007 11:08
well, guys CAN read, they just don’t often bother, sadly. *sad* guys would be so much cooler/smarter if they bothered 2 read good books.
and yeah, midnighters are wierd. but AWESOME! FOURTH MIDNIGHTERS DARKLING WEREWOLVES!
October 30th, 2007 11:40
Ok, i can say that i could see why guys wouldn’t read the uglies and its follow up, but Midnighters is a multi gender book. O and im on chapter 33, MAJOR SPOILER AHEAD OF THESE CAPS, i don’t want him to become a hafling! AHHH, it would make me sad. And i don’t want Melissa to die of her concussion, and they should just get together already they no they want to! O and Dess, she needs a dude, o and talk about invasion of privacy! i mean what did Melissa think sh was doing! And Johnathon, o, Johnathon, he is so sweet and kind (i didnt say i would leave you Zane) He and Jessica are perfect together. They re so cute! O and talk about awesmoe talent! Go Jessica! This does not mean i choose one series over another, i like them both!
October 30th, 2007 11:46
MIDNIGHTERS ROX! SPOILER RESPONSES AHEAD!
halfling rex is actually cooler. and dude, melissa doesn’t die. and they quasi-get togeter. i feel dess’s strength is in being the non-crazy one without a boyfriend/girlfriend. jonathan rocks. i have to say i don’t like jessica that much though.
END SPOILERS.
pity the only midnighters spoiler thread is the blue noon one, which all should AVOID LIKE THE PLAUGE so as to not get that ending spoiled.
October 30th, 2007 11:46
oh crap u haven’t finished touching darkness yet. DO NOT READ MY ABOVE POST, BRAN-LA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 30th, 2007 13:30
Yeah, i just finished touching Darkness! I was so good. SPOILERS AHEAD!!!
I am so glad they finally kissed, Melissa and Rex, and i can not believe he acculy became the halfling and then not. I thought it was so sweet how Jessica finally showed Johnathon to Beth! I was like awww! it was really good, im gonna get the 3 tommorow. Eww i hate that old lady, urg, she makes me mad! i am so glad, Jessica and Johnathon are together, Rexa and Mellisa, she showed Johnathon beth o other way lol! but still loved it scott-la loved it!
October 30th, 2007 14:07
*SPOILER TOUCHING DARKNESS*
yeah, it was pretty awesome. but the third one! was great yet horrible. i need to reread it though.
*END SPOILER*
i finished my bixby high school sweatshirt. it’s so fawesome! transferred it and all. black and red…..it’s foolio.
October 30th, 2007 14:12
hi
i will now get touching darkness
i am sooooo happy i might cry
i am proud i didn’t read the spoilers
the draft is soooo weird
October 30th, 2007 14:14
is the 3rd book the best or worst
i will get touching darkness tomarrow YESSSSSSSSSSS
October 30th, 2007 14:26
is touching darkness realllllllllly good
i must know
October 30th, 2007 14:28
man no one is talking
THE BEATLES ROCK
STEPH-LA OVER+OUT :TWISTED:
October 30th, 2007 14:31
AM I THE ANNOYING ONG ONG BRAN-LA ON COMMENT 73
U MAKE ME CRY 
October 31st, 2007 07:46
Oh Steph-la everyone went to the more recent post so must answer your question: I like Blue Noon best. The end made me cry (when i was at school – thanks alot Scott! hehe just kidding)
November 1st, 2007 05:41
whoa. it’s crazy to see how much the book devolped over the process of writing. im trying to imagine how different extras would have been if you kept wirtting it inthis point of view!
November 1st, 2007 06:02
I just started blogging this site. Who totally loved Specials? Anyone else but me?
( Actually i love Uglies and pretties too, but i recently finished specials.)
November 1st, 2007 06:35
I’m gonna get Extas soon! ( I hope ) I’m aslo partially crazy because of Halloween. Hello?
November 1st, 2007 08:03
Wow, tough crowd.
November 2nd, 2007 08:30
Sorry for falling off the face of the world for a bit – I’ve been quite busy.
I read all the posts I missed out on, but I wanted to comment on this one..
It’s quite great, seeing what you had come up with in the past, too. It reminds me of another series, the Twilight series, and how another book for that series is coming out, but in Edward’s point of view, rather the main girl throughout the beginning of the series. Very cool.
Perspectives are cool.
And, when trying to find out how on earth I could make shoes with adjustable friction, I found out from my Chem teacher that Dry Ice is the most frictionless substance around.
But how do you attached dry ice to shoes, let alone get your hands on some dry ice?
(sigh)
I will create those shoes someday. You can count on that.
November 6th, 2007 16:24
Whoo, that was freaky, reading Hiro’s POV. I like the book version though, thank you for sticking to that! hahaha. Just bought Extras last week, had trouble putting it down (I read it in the dark by using my phone to light up the pages, bec. I slept in my parents’ room. I keep having nightmares whenever I sleep in my room. Anyway..), and was able to during the scene with Tally-wa. I would love to see fanart or pics of real people that I can associate with the characters in Extras! (like Frizz for example!)
November 12th, 2007 04:24
o yeah! i think i’m # 100 (unless some1 is a faster typer than me)
-Riderchild-wa
November 12th, 2007 04:27
yes
i made it 
slept till noon today, stayed up till two in the morning watching alias…never really slept that late…sure, i’ve stayed in bed this late, but never really sleeping most of the time i think…
-Riderchild-wa
November 27th, 2007 17:58
wooah. how weird.
i prefer hiro in aya’s pov. even tho she thinks he’s a snob.. he ends up being likeable.
and i swear the story is just much better like this.
APPLAUSE.
November 27th, 2007 18:07
hiro sohma
haha
December 4th, 2007 02:11
tomarrow is my 12th birthday!
should be very kick!
p.s. scott please e-mail me at:
pepper1228@hotmsil.com
p.s.s. I am almost done with the extras!!!
I am a uglies fan!!!