tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19732018.post2765503262137358528..comments2014-10-10T02:06:00.304+01:00Comments on Molly Cutpurse: Sue Pollard and Def Leopard and J. K. RowlingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04250505507938750074noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19732018.post-28073038164652201552010-08-24T08:09:38.911+01:002010-08-24T08:09:38.911+01:00I don't know how the typos got in to my commen...I don't know how the typos got in to my comment. For:<br /><br />"The HP takes were derivative (it has to be said), but also different"<br /><br />please read:<br /><br />"The HP books were derivative (it has to be said) but nevertheless sufficiently different to anything else that had been on the market for some time that they succeeded notwithstanding."<br /><br />I must have saved the wrong draft before I copied-and-pasted. Sorry.Marie Marshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12120270081544467506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19732018.post-45928019656155266452010-08-24T08:06:36.091+01:002010-08-24T08:06:36.091+01:00JKR - you will gather I'm not a fan of hers. t...JKR - you will gather I'm not a fan of hers. to me she a) has SUFFICIENT talent, b) has a propensity for hard work, and c) was in the right place at the right time. The HP takes were derivative (it has to be said), but also different. However, it's this thing of not writing book two I'm talking about. I have written two novels, neither of which has yet been published. Finishing the first felt such an artistic achievement that I didn't really care about that. Nothing could have stopped me from writing the second. <br /><br />In fact the second was written as an answer to a challenge by a bunch of HP fans. "If you think JKR is such a 'bad' writer," they said, "Then write something better yourself." <br /><br />The result was a story of a girl from an Essex comprehensive school who finds herself plunged into a parallel world, where her school is silent and empty except for about a dozen other kids with extraordinary powers and a strange task given to them. HP it wasn't, but it kept the 12-year-old daughter of my chief challenger quiet and made her finish her homework for several nights on the trot. Then I realised that it was too short, and added two more parts to it, not knowing whether the whole would ever be published. I am still waiting. <br /><br />Now I have notes for my third novel. I'm damn well going to write it too, and if it stays on my hard drive, never mind.Marie Marshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12120270081544467506noreply@blogger.com