J. K. Rowling working on something - but not HP. - Page 2

Originally posted by: ammygurl

Umm...I dont think stephenie meyer writes that bad..!!
I mean...alryt...her work is repetitive and kinda..unimaginable..but still..she gained instant stardom...why is that? she must be having sumthing in her...
But well..there is no one like JKR

Meyer is a fantastic storyteller - no denying there. She is a bad writer, and that is where the problem lies. J. K. Rowling has both the qualities, with her talent in writing being better and more gifted than her talent in storytelling. Without reading the Harry Potter books, I do not think anyone, an adult at least, will be interested inthe series, and yet once people start skimming through the pages, they are hooked till the end. The story - the plot at least - is ordinary. It is her writing that turned this ordinary piece of writing into such an extraordinary one.

I am totally with Chillt - Twilight (granted that I'm not an expert in that saga) would have been much better, not only if it was written by someone better than her, but also if it was written by Meyer had she concentrated and given a little more time to the series. It seems as though she just jotted down each and every of her ideas in a hurry, without thinking how to shape them. Twilight reads like a fan fiction.

Originally posted by: chhilt

It's just that thing though..... some people like Twilight and some don't... it all comes down to personal preference... and you know what I find sad about Twilight? The story idea could have been so awesome if only a better author had considered writing it.... really, it could have been.... no offence to TwiHards :P

Originally posted by: PhoeniXof_Hades

Meyer is a fantastic storyteller - no denying there. She is a bad writer, and that is where the problem lies. J. K. Rowling has both the qualities, with her talent in writing being better and more gifted than her talent in storytelling. Without reading the Harry Potter books, I do not think anyone, an adult at least, will be interested inthe series, and yet once people start skimming through the pages, they are hooked till the end. The story - the plot at least - is ordinary. It is her writing that turned this ordinary piece of writing into such an extraordinary one.

I am totally with Chillt - Twilight (granted that I'm not an expert in that saga) would have been much better, not only if it was written by someone better than her, but also if it was written by Meyer had she concentrated and given a little more time to the series. It seems as though she just jotted down each and every of her ideas in a hurry, without thinking how to shape them. Twilight reads like a fan fiction.

Originally posted by: chhilt

Haha guys... this topic is turning into a Twilight discussion :P Let's stick to the original topic :) By the way, I totally agree with Labib and Lalitha ;)

Originally posted by: chhilt

Haha guys... this topic is turning into a Twilight discussion :P Let's stick to the original topic :) By the way, I totally agree with Labib and Lalitha ;)

Wish we had a common room to discuss all forms of books, not just a particular one. Oh wait, we already have it, just that book-talk forum (which is aimed at discussing and comparing books in particular) is excessively inactive.

^ She said she's not going to create another fantasy novel - not in the distant future as well. If my memory is correct, I'd posted that article a long time back (around the time when Lakshmi was active here). Maybe I should go and try to dig it up. As far as I can remember, she stated that she had done with her fantastic imagination, and that creating another fantasy world may result into her copying/taking things from Harry Potter, for which the novel may loose its charm an d originality.

Either way, whatever she writes, it will be an absolute pleasure to read it. Harry Potter may fall i n the fantasy genre, but it has shades of other genres as well - romance, teen[age] angst, part tragedy, part comedy, sometimes adventurous, at times thought-provoking, etc etc. So it wouldn't really matter what she is writing, since she usually mixes ingredients from all genres into her work (judging from her previous books).

I think that JK Rowling did a disservice to herself by creating such an intricate fantasy world in Harry Potter. Any other attempt in fantasy would undoubtly be compared to Harry Potter, so I think that might be part of the reason that she might not wish to attempt another fantasy novel.