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A scenario I'm wondering: If a romance clearly wants readers to want the couple to stay together, and I read it and think the couple would be better off separate because they bring out the worst in each other...is it Successful as Art? It obviously made me Feel something, but if the Point was for readers to want the couple to have a HEA of HFN together and I didn't agree...then the author's Point was not convincing enough?
I would consider that book art, but whether or not it is successful is subjective. Did that book make others feel the way the author intended? If the answer is yes, then I would say it is successful, even if it wasn't personally successful for you. But it's a little different with something like romance, where the defining hallmark of the genre is that it ends with a HEA or HFN. To me, that seems more like a failure of craft than whether or not it's successful as a work of art, if that makes sense?
Many thanks for the transcript. I'm a Free-tier subscriber, and I don't have the attention span for audio, so I really appreciated reading this. And your newsletter's become one of my favourites!
A scenario I'm wondering: If a romance clearly wants readers to want the couple to stay together, and I read it and think the couple would be better off separate because they bring out the worst in each other...is it Successful as Art? It obviously made me Feel something, but if the Point was for readers to want the couple to have a HEA of HFN together and I didn't agree...then the author's Point was not convincing enough?
I would consider that book art, but whether or not it is successful is subjective. Did that book make others feel the way the author intended? If the answer is yes, then I would say it is successful, even if it wasn't personally successful for you. But it's a little different with something like romance, where the defining hallmark of the genre is that it ends with a HEA or HFN. To me, that seems more like a failure of craft than whether or not it's successful as a work of art, if that makes sense?