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  1. Well, sure, Meljean. That’s more or less a given. What I find interesting about romances, though, is that the entire genre tends give “happy endings” where most stories in a lot of other genres and particularly the more lofty “real” literature wouldn’t. Heck, I’d bet if we dug deep enough someone has probably written a romance at some point or other where “Romeo” and “Juliet” don’t die . . . that’s the kind of relationship thinking I’m referring to and where I see an extremely strong element of romance being THE fan fiction of the rest of literature.

    Give us a bad relationship anywhere and we want to find a way to fix it. (VBEG>

  2. I’d argue that even mainstream literature can be fan fiction, in it’s own way — another book, a movie (but especially another book), a non-fiction article, and on and on. If fan fiction is defined as taking a germ of an idea found somewhere else and playing with it, then yeah…definitely 😀

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