FF: romance in fanfic - Coke

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 12667

Yael wrote:

>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). 
>
><snip>
>
>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.

A lot of the writing and reading of fanfic (as with any fic I guess) 
is fantasy-fulfillment, often of a very simplistic kind.  I read a 
book with a very sad ending (which I loved, and which was organic to 
the story) and checked out some of the fanfic offerings on the book.  
Half of them were attempts to patch up the ending.  In fact, a few 
authors seemed to have finished the book and immediately sat down to 
write a more palatable (to them) ending.

Romance as a genre tends to be in this vein, I think.  I'm a romantic 
through and through--I believe in true love and soulmates and all 
those things--but I like angst, 'cause, well, life is filled with 
angst as well as with love and beauty.  That's why I love HP!  It 
isn't just fun stuff.  Fluffy bunnies, yuck.

So keep on plugging with the non-fluff, Yael!

Heidi wrote:

>The ad campaign <snip> won't, however, extend to product placement in
>the movie or images of Harry drinking Coke.

Thank heaven for small favors.

Amy Z
reminding herself to stop buying Coke
(my, I AM feeling curmudgeonly this morning, aren't I?)

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"Flint nearly kills the Gryffindor Seeker,
which could happen to anyone, I'm sure..."
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