'Lightlark' Author Alex Aster Wows Kristen Bell With Story Of Perseverance | Kelly Extras 

i 100% agree w you

I understand what you mean that many other authors dont get interviews but She didn't have any connections with the industry, she got a lot of oppurtunities because she used popular social media platforms

Kelly asking if she can do a song and Kristen asking if she’s casting felt a little too scripted lol.

I know you said no hate so same here no hate to you. This is coming from an actor who auditions for many things and hasn't gotten anything yet. The acting and writing industry is a whole game of luck. If you get seen by even someone for your work that is luck just as much as you get lucky to be seen by even just a couple people on tiktok. She got extremely lucky that booktok liked her book and thought it had the potential. The acting industry only wants to put out there what other people want to see so when universal saw that and saw other people wanted it, they were giving them what they want. Now like you said she has connections but what also she said is it took YEARS her sister helped her no less then she could herself. She got herself there only through the fact that she worked hard and followed her dreams even through failure and hurt. Once again no hate to youu 😁

@@brookebriones8728 you’re so right, I’m also an actor who’s auditioned for so much but has barely gotten anything. Keep going and never give up

For real she wanted to so bad😂😂

Love that please 💞

i want that too haha

Yes

@@ellenbrake1653 ah okay, thanks!

yes it’s quite mediocre, she wondered why every publisher was rejecting her but failed to develop the entire plot and all the characters. also didn’t deliver on any promised scenes, etc.

Let’s just say it wasn’t for me

this is so true!

Elaborate please?

@@Lina_unchained you don’t get elaboration ig😭

@@sillyspine Apparently not 🤣 just f me I guess 🤷🏿‍♀️🤣😭

@@Lina_unchained the world is filled with millions of inconsistencies and the characters really lack significant depth -- it definitely did need more time but the ideas could have been made into something rlly interesting. sadly it didn't :((

No clue. Her writing is awful.

What’s wrong with writing books? There’s value in being a creative person. Just so happens that her book was very poorly written.

Thank god her sister has connections, she would never have done it without them.

of how having good family connections makes you famous, for writing subpar book

@@feathercat9118 "Subpar" is putting it mildly. It's more completely nonsensical than merely subpar.

If you read the book you will prolly cry harder because of how awful it is

@@nia-oc4uoDramatic..

I bet Azul was only made into a black gay man at the very last second bc Alex found out that she didn't have either of those in her book and instead of raceswapping Cleo or Celeste (they literally look identical in their promo art), she decided to just combine them into one character...and then neglect that character and his entire kingdom until its "group picture time" with the rulers 😂

Is it… good?

Her sister is a multi millionaire lol

Her Dad owns one of the largest Toyota dealerships in the country and her Mom is also wealthy.

The book itself is...like The Hunger Games with magic. The "gimmick" is that the main character doesn't have powers but her competitors do. If you can get past the weird narration style she has (ex: "she ran like she was running away from something"), you might like the book!

She definitely did not go from nothing!

@@SrslyTony The book is most definitely not like The Hunger Games. You can tell that Aster was trying to do that, but failed on multiple levels because she couldn't be bothered to sort out her worldbuilding

Actually, the book makes no fuxking sense, is deeply flawed, and outrageously bland, but it is good example on how not to write a fantasy book with characters.

This book was middle school amateur. The writing was horrendous. Something doesn't add up with her story

well it was #1 for a reason and most of us loved it, so if you didn’t like it that’s your opinion and keep it to yourself bc it’s obviously a very unpopular opinion🤷🏾‍♀️

@@michaestephens4077 yeah, it was #1. thats actually speaks volumes for our society. Depressing.

@@runback22 idk what you thought you did but that was so cringe😭. it’s not depressing i thought it was a good book and others did too it’s called diff opinions

Emma would be so down

Maybe read it first

Your dreams will come reality too. Don’t give up and keep writing if that’s what you’re passionate about. If you have books already written and they are done, I would like to read them :)

You have a reader too !

All you need to do is be born into a rich family and you too can get an incomprehensible first draft published and undeservedly treated as an against the odds success story.