The thing about fanfic and the fandom is that if anyone actually wrote like JKR does, they'd be ridiculed out of the fandom in a heartbeat. She's not a great writer. She's a fun and imaginitive writer and her books (with one or two exceptions) are a delight to read. She's been known to change characters to make them fit into some new role or situation *cough*ginnysue*cough and it's taken for the most part, in stride by the fandom. And so it should be. But I'd love, absolutely love to see what would happen if she herself posted a "drabble" a missing chapter or something straight out of canon on any given archives. We all know what would happen, don't we? It's written in the stars.
These people:The rest of us are showing respect. And I realized that it's not just fanfic where I fall on this side (and ironically, whenever I hear people describing their own superior work that way my possibly unfair thought is that it sounds like their stuff sounds really boring. (I had to stop reading here for a bit and have a good laugh, BTW) would nail her to the wall.
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Date: 2005-11-08 11:16 pm (UTC)But I'd love, absolutely love to see what would happen if she herself posted a "drabble" a missing chapter or something straight out of canon on any given archives. We all know what would happen, don't we? It's written in the stars.
These people:The rest of us are showing respect. And I realized that it's not just fanfic where I fall on this side (and ironically, whenever I hear people describing their own superior work that way my possibly unfair thought is that it sounds like their stuff sounds really boring. (I had to stop reading here for a bit and have a good laugh, BTW) would nail her to the wall.