"Midnight Sun" was to be a companion novel to the series, intending to be a retelling of the events of the novel "Twilight", but from the perspective of Edward Cullen. Meyer had hoped to have "Midnight Sun" published shortly after the release of "Breaking Dawn", but after an online leak of a rough draft of its first 12 chapters, Meyer chose to delay the project indefinitely. Upset by the release of a draft she called "messy and flawed", Meyer decided to pursue books unrelated to "Twilight" as a result of the leak. She made the unedited and unfinished manuscript of a lengthy character development exercise of "Midnight Sun" available on her website.