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MellzBellz:

--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 02, 2009, 12:28:41 AM ---I do this too, and it's definitely helpful.  I have a whole folder of these things now, and when I get bored enough to think, "Maybe I want to start a new story..." it's nice to go and look through that for ideas.  Sometimes I'm like, WTF was I thinking??  But sometimes I add a little bit more detail to the idea documents, until I get un-bored and go back to my real stories LOL.  Someday maybe I'll actually take one of those ideas and turn it into a story LOL.

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That is a good idea... I might try that. Hopefully in doing that I get the ideas out of my head for the time being and on paper. Ha I just have to put it someplace where I won't lose it.

The AU idea is a nice compromise between Fan Fic and OF. I think I have one AU I was working on but it just isn't workin because Nick really is turning out to be not as big as a character as I first thought. Let's just say he's the source of conflict, but really isn't in that many scenes if it makes sense, so I think that particular story would just be better off as original fiction. I have another idea that could work as an AU though (where Nick would play a much larger role) but it's just getting that off the ground because the plot has the potential to get very complex. (It has a mystery element to it that would involve the central couple to travel around the country in search of answers, so that has to be really well thought out.)

It's a tough time deciding what I want to write about lately because I'm changing and looking back at even what I wrote a year ago, although it doesn't make me cringe, it just seems way too soap operish and unrealistic to me now. I'm struggling to come up with a story that is realistic, yet still has enough fantasy elements to make it an escape from reality if that makes sense. It doesn't help that I'm in a very cynical place in life when it comes to love and relationships, yet that's what I write about. Haha Call me the anti-romance romance writer.

Anyway thanks for everyone's help so far! My goal this summer is to at least get like 10 chapters into somthing...

Purpura Lipstick:
but looking at something cyncially would be good too.   Not everything can be roses and chocolates... :-D   Use what you know!! 

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