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Legal Assistant Happily Bitten by Vampire Fiction

By Lynne DeVenny

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Like those adults in the Frosted Flakes commercials, sheepishly admitting their love of the cereal well past childhood, I'm gonna 'fess up and admit that I read all of the Twilight books. It was hard not to after my daughters bought them all, waxed poetic about that very polite vampire heart-throb, Edward, endlessly for months - and then left the books on the coffee table.

But Canadian legal assistant Tammy Turcotte not only admits to reading all the Twilight books, but also to writing interactive fan fiction for twilight.net. The site allows members to read existing chapters, and then add their own. (I'm happy to see they "edit posts for spelling, grammar, and clarity.")

Turcotte was initially a little embarrassed to fess up to her intrigue, but meeting others online quickly dispersed it. The genre attracts much more than so-called desperate housewives anxious to fill dreary lives with romance, but also brings into the fold the alter egos of many professionals.
"It really is incredible," said Turcotte, who is involved in judging online writing contests, as well doing some editorial work on the website. "Some are professional writers, there's also doctors, lawyers and psychologists, most are over 30, too.

One top-rated chapter at twilight.net "Alright, Who's Got the Dead Fish?" features an underwear-only clad protagonist examining a dead body and "what looks like a drying, or very near dry, trail of water, leading from near the corpse's feet to the closed door of the small room, and presumably beyond."

I have to sheepishly confess that I thought about adding a chapter instead of finishing this post.

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Full post as published by Practical Paralegalism on March 12, 2010 (boomark / email).