Sorry, I was unclear. I was wondering if you think that “stories” is broad enough to include the things Nancy mentioned such as video games. It may be, but I’m not sure.
I think a misunderstanding still persists, because now I notice you’ve gone back to “popular novels”, while retaining “Rowling’s celebrated works”. My suggestion, just to be absolutely clear, was: “popular stories” and “Rowling’s celebrated novels”.
(If you were worried about “popular stories” not being broad enough, “popular novels” is even narrower, and definitely doesn’t apply to video games.)
No, you were clear. I’m considering sticking with “novels” though as 1) the reader probably won’t know enough about fanfiction for it to be a problem, 2) I like how it sounds this way, and 3) it’s probably true that most of the stuff on there is about books. (Maybe not though considering how much anime stuff there is).
I would say so. What is the title of the first page in every video game manual? “Story”. (At least it was back in my day.)
The narrative element of video games is what makes them suitable fanfiction subjects. The same presumably applies to any other art form which might be represented on fanfiction sites.
I don’t think your sentence is in any way misleading.
There you can use “novels”.
So do you disagree with the following comment by NancyLebovits? or do you think “stories” is broad enough to still work?
That was posted when it read “variations of popular novels”.
Wrong passage. I was talking about specifically about the passage you quoted, at the end of the paragraph:
Rowling’s Harry Potter books are indeed novels, so the word may be properly applied: “J.K. Rowling’s celebrated novels.”
(Guess: you misread the grandparent as “Then you can use ‘novels’ ” rather than “There you can use ‘novels’ ”.)
Sorry, I was unclear. I was wondering if you think that “stories” is broad enough to include the things Nancy mentioned such as video games. It may be, but I’m not sure.
I think a misunderstanding still persists, because now I notice you’ve gone back to “popular novels”, while retaining “Rowling’s celebrated works”. My suggestion, just to be absolutely clear, was: “popular stories” and “Rowling’s celebrated novels”.
(If you were worried about “popular stories” not being broad enough, “popular novels” is even narrower, and definitely doesn’t apply to video games.)
No, you were clear. I’m considering sticking with “novels” though as 1) the reader probably won’t know enough about fanfiction for it to be a problem, 2) I like how it sounds this way, and 3) it’s probably true that most of the stuff on there is about books. (Maybe not though considering how much anime stuff there is).
I would say so. What is the title of the first page in every video game manual? “Story”. (At least it was back in my day.)
The narrative element of video games is what makes them suitable fanfiction subjects. The same presumably applies to any other art form which might be represented on fanfiction sites.
I don’t think your sentence is in any way misleading.
Edit: The tag didn’t seem to be working so I made it visible.
That falls into the “quirky exception” category. As far as I know, most of fanfiction.net is Harry Potter and the like.
I still don’t think the sentence is misleading. If necessary a qualifier like “mostly” can be added.