Coda, how dare you try to bring tempered, evenhanded consideration to my hyperbolic rant from 325 days ago!

I find myself strangely less invested in most of the things I ranted about in this thread. Maybe it's something to do with being out of school for a year and not being constantly exposed to my classmates' terrible writing.

Harry Potter was famous but not necessarily the best.

34. Love Rival/ Love triangle
Now don't get me wrong, I think that generally, love triangle can be a good trope. It's just that too many works, even non romantic ones, have some sort of love triangle thrown in. Like you'd even expect a book series like Lord of the Rings to lay off that ish but nope; there's one there too.
And to be honest it's not that I don't like a love triangle, it's that 85% of the time, the hopeless suitor is the one I like -_-

35. Amnesia
Now in long series it can often happen. A character has an accident and has temporary/selective/whatever amnesia and doesnt remember the other characters, his story and his goal.
97% of amenisia arcs are poorly done. Very forced, tiresome, drags the story. Don't do that, please.

36. Useless ellipsis
Okay this is one that I see mostly on fanfics but stop using stupid ellipses...to make the sentence sound mysterious...
It's annoying.

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So what would you like to see or be interesting in seeing in a story that deals with amnesia? Would you consider it a requirement that the person gets their memory back, that it's shown what information the character is missing, or that the reader learn why the character has amnesia in the first place?

I'm kind of tired of YA in general. I know this isn't exclusive to YA but you get the idea
-Tragic world shattering events
-One sole person who can save the world
-Romantic subplot that take away from the tragic world shattering events
-Romantic subplots within the romantic subplots
-Various pandering

For me (I dislike amnesia plots as well)...it is largely because it is done more as a trope than as an explored mental phenomenon. Give the characters extreme fear and anxiety - they've lost part of what makes them...them. It is incredibly stressful to forget a part of your self. Depression can do this, as well as trauma or stroke or dementia...and as memory is sort of your brain telling your story to itself, even if recovered there can be a sense of disconnect - of you in your memory not being you.

>.> I'll know MonBon won't like my stories, then. About half involve some form of saving a world or town or group of people. <.<

Hehe Lawtan

It's not that there can't be a world shattering event. I will eat that stuff up, what primarily bugs me about YA is that there is specifically a romantic sub-plot that detracts from it. It's like this (I am generalizing and simplifying of course):

There is a volcano raining down on the village. Everyone has only an hour to escape. But Lily and Jessica must come out to their parents and Molly loves Lily. Molly convinces Lily that Jessica doesn't love Lily so that Lily will hang out will Molly for 50 of the 60 minutes they have to escape. With 8 minutes left, Jessica publicly proclaims her love to Lily -- in front of her parents! ♥ This gives Lily the strength to give a rousing speech and lead the entire village out of the range of the volcano in the final 2 minutes (disregarding the 30% of people that died at various parts in the novel).

THAT is what I mean by "world shattering event but romantic events that somehow completely overshadow world shattering event." I actually enjoy reading about world shattering events and even romance in the proper contexts :)

I recall a story I read once online that featured that sort of deal.

There is a boy, the world is ending, and he is the only one that can save it. He promptly throws himself off a building. End of story.

That does lend itself to the idea of examining the pressure such a 'destiny' puts on someone.