The Ten Big Romantic Plots

Aug 31, 2006 17:55

By now anyone who follows my LJ has to know I like to read books on writing. I didn’t buy this one, but when while skimming I saw this list, I had to write it down and share ( Read more... )

writing, ss/hg, publishing

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argosy September 1 2006, 03:30:39 UTC
Okay, sga_flashfic" had a "harlequin" callenge a while back that produced AMAZING stories. Yeah, I know. I wouldn't have believed it either. including some "forced together" stories and some "reunited" stories that are SO GOOD. I would never have thought I'd like these kinds of stories, but... I am losing my soul to Stargate: Atlantis. What can I say?

(Did I mention I got the first season on DVD for my birthday? Uh-oh.)

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argosy September 1 2006, 03:31:39 UTC
sga_flashfic. Did that work that time?

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harmony_bites September 1 2006, 15:37:05 UTC
LOL. It worked. Though now you're scaring me we could lose you to SGA. Can you do that to Draco? :points to icon:

So, are any of these common in DM/HG or Snupin ad nauseum? Way too many SS/HG fall into "marriage of convenience" or "forced to love/or see love by a potion" or Time-turner or Hermione as nurse/caregiver to a suffering Severus. Anything like that you notice in DM/HG?

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argosy September 2 2006, 22:31:56 UTC
Well, if someone, say... you, were to write a 50,000 word D/Hr epic for NaNoWriMo, my love for all things Draco would probably come back full force. :)

I can think of one or two potions stories, though they're smutty sexcapades, can't think of any forced marriages (though doesn't bunney have a pretty famous one, I think?) Not a lot of this kind of stuff in D/Hr, at least not that I'm aware of. Now if you wanna give me a cliche, I'm all about Draco/Hermione head boy/head girl stories. Mmmm...

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harmony_bites September 3 2006, 04:00:38 UTC
Well, if someone, say... you, were to write a 50,000 word D/Hr epic for NaNoWriMo, my love for all things Draco would probably come back full force. :)

Hmmm. That is quite a Slytherin tack you're taking. :whistles "Torn Between Two Lovers": I'm a bunny slut--I'll take whichever one with the biggest hop that comes along...

I did try every single DM/HG story on the exchange. Didn't *finish* all of them, 'cuz hey as with any collection of fanfic some just... well, the kind way of putting it is that not all held my interest. But at least I did get the impression of them being pretty different from each other.

Though I hear there is a lot of Draco as Veela in the ship.

Hmm Head Boy/Girl. Didn't you say something about writing one some day?

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argosy September 2 2006, 22:37:37 UTC
Oh, and if you squint, I suppose "Where the Magic Is" could be seen as #5- Reunion Romance. But you'd have to squint pretty hard...

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harmony_bites September 3 2006, 04:01:59 UTC
Yeah, I could see that. But yeah, as with bambu345 it is kinda a stretch. That's good--you're not falling into the cliche hole if you have to squint hard.

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argosy September 3 2006, 01:09:29 UTC
Oh, and btw, about NaNoWriMo? Don't want to hear you complain. A whole month should be easy. :D

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harmony_bites September 3 2006, 04:02:56 UTC
Grrrrrrrr What's the point of NaNo if I can't constantly gripe?

A whole month averaging 1,667 words a day... God, help me--let the complaining begin!

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