[HPforGrownups] romance in fanfic

[yael oren]

No: HPFGUIDX 12663

Hi,

As an experiment, I wrote two stories: one is very much in the spirit of the books (to the best of my ability, as i'm no JK) and the other is a sappy romance (not quite done yet).

I was going to save the aftermath for, well, the 'after', but since the subject has come up, and i do have preliminary results, i'll share them with you:

There is absolutely no doubt which of the stories in more popular. The soap-opera has almost twice as many reviews as the ala-JK story. I have many theories as to the reason, but i'll keep those to the real analysis when i'm completely done with the stories.

thanks, yael

  --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Jim Flanagan" <jamesf at a...> wrote:
  > 
  > Digressing slightly from the topic at hand:  IMHO, a lot of fanfic 
  > has gone entirely overboard with emotional displays. Some of the, 
  > ahem, "less gifted" authors write some extremely unconvincing 
  > romantic scenes, particularly with respect to the male half of the 
  > interaction. I don't just mean from the viewpoint of beer-swilling, 
  > sexist louts, but even as viewed by reasonably sensitive guys like 
  > myself <g>. (end of digression)
  >


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