I don't think I can get sick of any active discussion. I was brought up to discuss things to get the broader picture.
From a readers perspective I have to say that I find it hard to define "Original fiction" because storytelling relies on tropes and convention for it to work properly. When it boils down to it, its all in the excecution of the story telling. I find that writers who have any instinct for what they do are able to recognise when it is getting cliche and so can then spin a new angle makign it new and unique. But still in teh spirit of teh story trope.
Take Harry P as a good example. The idea of a boy/man, who lives with extended family but has largely unknown parentage but has powers he is largely or vaguely unaware of and an epic destiny is nothing new.. see Star wars and nearly all mythic Hero epics.. The fact that he is in school is a new excecution of the idea making the trope new and more interesting. Which in turn keeps us readers interested:D.
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Date: 2011-09-22 12:23 pm (UTC)From:From a readers perspective I have to say that I find it hard to define "Original fiction" because storytelling relies on tropes and convention for it to work properly. When it boils down to it, its all in the excecution of the story telling. I find that writers who have any instinct for what they do are able to recognise when it is getting cliche and so can then spin a new angle makign it new and unique. But still in teh spirit of teh story trope.
Take Harry P as a good example. The idea of a boy/man, who lives with extended family but has largely unknown parentage but has powers he is largely or vaguely unaware of and an epic destiny is nothing new.. see Star wars and nearly all mythic Hero epics.. The fact that he is in school is a new excecution of the idea making the trope new and more interesting. Which in turn keeps us readers interested:D.