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| Delirium |
 Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 4:08 pm |
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| I am SO glad someone has brought up "Pawn to Queen". When I first started reading HP fanfic, I kept hearing of the brilliance of this piece. How wonderful it was and how it was so good that the author was now a published author and writing a novel. So I searched for it and read it. Where was the brilliance? A roller skating snake in a feather boa? A Snape who appeared effete? A Hermione who was not Hermione in character? And the bloody thing was incomplete. How can something incomplete be considered a "brilliant piece of work"? More like a tarnished piece of shite. A year later and I'm STILL trying to wrap my mind about the roller skating lifesaving Mary Sue snake. |
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| azazello |
| Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 5:44 pm |
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The published author who is writing an original novel thing is a bit of fandom hagiography.
As I was given to understand it's a rather derivative older children's book and was pretty close to self-published. |
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| Delirium |
| Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 7:08 pm |
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| Ahhh, but did it contain a snake on roller skates? Oops, my bad. See? Over a year later and it still burns in my mind. Heck, I've been published - had a few short stories in a few anthologies and lit mags. But I don't pretend that my work is brilliant. My fanfic is nothing new, my original work better, but I am no Hermann Hesse. |
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