The Death of Imagination...
I'm getting really frustrated.
I've been hardcore into the Harry Potter fandom for many years now, so naturally I've read a crap-load of fanfictions.
They're all the same.
It seems to me that the same plots are getting used over and over again with no remission in sight. It's to the point where if I read a summary that even mentions creature! Draco I'm going to pass it up. Especially if he's a Veela. They're all the same. Draco finds out that he is a Veela. Either he goes emo because he's not a pureblood anymore or he's an extra-special pureblood because he has creature blood in him. Then, shocker of all shockers...Harry is his mate.
Add in some cliched reactions from friends, family and the general public (including an explosive Ron scene) and you've ot yourself a story!
Now, I've read quite a few excellent Veela Draco fics, so I'm not dissing that completely.
But I read them YEARS ago.
Come up with your own twist for Merlin's sake! Don't stick to the same plotline as 50 other authors and authoresses because you think it'll get you reviews.
News Flash: People won't keep reviewing the same story line.
It's utterly repetitive and if you want to be a review-whore then come up with something that isn't seen very much and put your own twist on it. Be adventurous. The whole point of writing fanfiction is to go off the canon storyline.
It's almost seems as if within the HP fandom we've created our own canon and we have to dig ourselves out of the rut once again.
There seem to be some very typical story lines that pop up wherever you go:
- Draco is a Veela and Harry is his reluctant mate
- Someone takes/makes a potion by mistake (or a spell) and is turned into a baby. And Dumbledore is seemingly wise to the undertones of a hateful relationship and puts the helpless infant into the hands of his enemy.
- Harry is abused and/or tries to kill himself and/or is raped brutally by Vernon or Dudley.
- Interhouse Unity is taken to extreme measures and Rivals are paired together.
- Severus is forced to tutor Harry.
Okay...those are only a few, but how many of you can honestly say you haven't read multiple attempts at these. I've even dabbled my hand in them, but I realized there were probably other people like me who were sick of seeing the same summary:
When A happens and B and C are put into D situation...WHAT WILL HAPPEN?
I mean...honestly....when the genre is romance and the two characters are put into a "seeminlgy" horrible situation..chances are they're going to have sex in one form or another by the end of the fic.
justsoyouknow.
Everyone loves a good angst-bomb in the form of Harry going all badass and what not (I mean I LOVED it when Edmund effing Pevensie turned up all hot and badass in Prince Caspian, but I degress) but make an attempt to draw people into your story without all the hubub of cliched characters. Work outside of the box.
Use your imagination.
Anyway....had to get this off of my chest. I was just scanning HP fics on FF.net and got pissed.
Ja Ne!
じゃね！
~*Hitomi*~
(YSM)
I've been hardcore into the Harry Potter fandom for many years now, so naturally I've read a crap-load of fanfictions.
They're all the same.
It seems to me that the same plots are getting used over and over again with no remission in sight. It's to the point where if I read a summary that even mentions creature! Draco I'm going to pass it up. Especially if he's a Veela. They're all the same. Draco finds out that he is a Veela. Either he goes emo because he's not a pureblood anymore or he's an extra-special pureblood because he has creature blood in him. Then, shocker of all shockers...Harry is his mate.
Add in some cliched reactions from friends, family and the general public (including an explosive Ron scene) and you've ot yourself a story!
Now, I've read quite a few excellent Veela Draco fics, so I'm not dissing that completely.
But I read them YEARS ago.
Come up with your own twist for Merlin's sake! Don't stick to the same plotline as 50 other authors and authoresses because you think it'll get you reviews.
News Flash: People won't keep reviewing the same story line.
It's utterly repetitive and if you want to be a review-whore then come up with something that isn't seen very much and put your own twist on it. Be adventurous. The whole point of writing fanfiction is to go off the canon storyline.
It's almost seems as if within the HP fandom we've created our own canon and we have to dig ourselves out of the rut once again.
There seem to be some very typical story lines that pop up wherever you go:
- Draco is a Veela and Harry is his reluctant mate
- Someone takes/makes a potion by mistake (or a spell) and is turned into a baby. And Dumbledore is seemingly wise to the undertones of a hateful relationship and puts the helpless infant into the hands of his enemy.
- Harry is abused and/or tries to kill himself and/or is raped brutally by Vernon or Dudley.
- Interhouse Unity is taken to extreme measures and Rivals are paired together.
- Severus is forced to tutor Harry.
Okay...those are only a few, but how many of you can honestly say you haven't read multiple attempts at these. I've even dabbled my hand in them, but I realized there were probably other people like me who were sick of seeing the same summary:
When A happens and B and C are put into D situation...WHAT WILL HAPPEN?
I mean...honestly....when the genre is romance and the two characters are put into a "seeminlgy" horrible situation..chances are they're going to have sex in one form or another by the end of the fic.
justsoyouknow.
Everyone loves a good angst-bomb in the form of Harry going all badass and what not (I mean I LOVED it when Edmund effing Pevensie turned up all hot and badass in Prince Caspian, but I degress) but make an attempt to draw people into your story without all the hubub of cliched characters. Work outside of the box.
Use your imagination.
Anyway....had to get this off of my chest. I was just scanning HP fics on FF.net and got pissed.
Ja Ne!
じゃね！
~*Hitomi*~
(YSM)