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What's your fanfic "niche"?
RokofAges75:
Rose and I were chatting about this just now and thought we'd throw it out there for all the writers on the board to answer.
What's your fanfic trademark or niche? That is, what's the one thing you always seem to write about, the thing readers are likely to find in most of your stories? Why do you choose to write about that? Where does the inspiration or infatuation come from?
Just thought this would be an interesting topic. :)
Rose:
I love this topic. :)
I know when I was younger, I used to always write about twins, or in some cases, triplets. You can see it in some of my early stories in fanfic too even. But most of that was in my prefanfic days. I'm not sure why either. My mom says I had an imaginary twin when I was little, instead of an imaginary friend. So it'd been like that for awhile. She'd joke I was a twin in a past life. Even now you see me sometimes put them in there even as a small thing, like in RMTW, AJ has twin daughters. But I really don't do the twin thing anymore.
As for what I always tend to write about, or have in fics now... I dunno. I used to have an answer to that, but lately I don't. Character wise, I know in "my" Nick, he always sings either to have fun (we're talking about outside professional performing) or when he's upset/nervous.
I think we should also say what we feel other's author's niches are in fanfic too. I'd like to know that. :)
Like with Julie, I think you know we all feel you're one of the best with anything medical. :)
RokofAges75:
Thanks :)
Definitely mine is the medical stuff LOL. You will find at least a little of that in almost all of my stories, even if that's not the main plot. I don't know exactly why, except that I've just always been interested in medical stuff and enjoyed stories that involve that.
Even when I was very little, one of my favorite picture books was "Curious George Goes to the Hospital" LOL. I watched Rescue 911 all through elementary school, and then I started watching ER from the beginning, when I was in 4th grade and it was a treat just to be allowed to stay up late enough to watch it on Thursday nights, and that was my favorite show for the 15 years it was on. I grew up with ER! I read all of Lurlene McDaniel's books in middle school, all the sappy young adult novels about kids with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses, and she was my favorite writer for a long time. She has had a lot of influence on me as a writer, for sure. I always loved learning about the human body and dissecting stuff in science. Even now, I still give all the new medical shows a try, although I haven't found one worthy of ER's replacement yet (though the new documentary show Boston Med is awesome!).
I think if I hadn't come from a long line of teachers (my mom is one, my grandma is a retired teacher, her mom was a teacher, and so on), I probably would have gone to medical school or done something in the healthcare field. I was torn between medicine and education up until the time came to choose a major when I was filling out college applications, and I chose the one that pays a lot less - go me LOL. So I think writing about the medical stuff in my stories is a way to satisfy that fascination for me, and it's been a fun challenge for me to try and do it better and better in my stories, as far as researching and making it as realistic as I can without actually experiencing it.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: Rose on July 03, 2010, 07:50:10 PM ---I know when I was younger, I used to always write about twins, or in some cases, triplets. You can see it in some of my early stories in fanfic too even. But most of that was in my prefanfic days. I'm not sure why either. My mom says I had an imaginary twin when I was little, instead of an imaginary friend. So it'd been like that for awhile. She'd joke I was a twin in a past life. Even now you see me sometimes put them in there even as a small thing, like in RMTW, AJ has twin daughters. But I really don't do the twin thing anymore.
--- End quote ---
Twins are fascinating. :) There's just something interesting about them, especially when you go with all the twin mythology that's not really true, but interesting nonetheless LOL. Like the psychic connection and all of that. There was a made-for-TV remake of "Escape to Witch Mountain" that I remember watching as a kid, and the kids were twins in that version and along with being telepathic and all of that, they made purple light whenever their hands touched. It was a cool twin movie LOL.
Brooke and Bonnie in Undead were also your idea LOL.
Maybe you have a parasitic twin inside you! Like that movie Unborn (which I haven't seen, but isn't that the premise?). Maybe that's really your muse, instead of a psychic penguin named Bob (who also happens to be a twin LOL).
Rose:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 03, 2010, 08:06:42 PM ---Twins are fascinating. :) There's just something interesting about them, especially when you go with all the twin mythology that's not really true, but interesting nonetheless LOL. Like the psychic connection and all of that. There was a made-for-TV remake of "Escape to Witch Mountain" that I remember watching as a kid, and the kids were twins in that version and along with being telepathic and all of that, they made purple light whenever their hands touched. It was a cool twin movie LOL.
Brooke and Bonnie in Undead were also your idea LOL.
Maybe you have a parasitic twin inside you! Like that movie Unborn (which I haven't seen, but isn't that the premise?). Maybe that's really your muse, instead of a psychic penguin named Bob (who also happens to be a twin LOL).
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LMAO were they really? I forgot. Okay see, maybe I do still do it lmao. But at least they're never the main premise anymore. Used to be they were haha. I remember the made for TV version. I loved that movie! I wish it was on dvd somewhere.
LMFAO maybe, though siamese twins were never my thing. I never saw that movie either actually LOL.
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