You know, it's funny that people keep saying that about Rowling but I don't see it at all. I think there are things that can apply to original fic that some people don't--like, I think of course an original author could write a character OOC, hypothetically, and I think OCs can be Mary Sues. But with Rowling I thought a lot of it was just that she wound up using cliches and things that were recognizable from fanfic.
Because when it comes to what the person is describing here, that the characters obsess over each other and it turns into PWP...that's not anything like what Rowling does. You can't really do that in Original fic. If anything her characters don't really obsess over each other, they just run through their paces to keep the plot moving. And sometimes that in itself is maybe what people mean, that she just makes the characters do things that don't seem organic or aren't explained as much, or just says something like "okay, this character is different now" without really selling it.
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Date: 2005-11-09 04:47 pm (UTC)Because when it comes to what the person is describing here, that the characters obsess over each other and it turns into PWP...that's not anything like what Rowling does. You can't really do that in Original fic. If anything her characters don't really obsess over each other, they just run through their paces to keep the plot moving. And sometimes that in itself is maybe what people mean, that she just makes the characters do things that don't seem organic or aren't explained as much, or just says something like "okay, this character is different now" without really selling it.