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What's your fanfic "niche"?
yorkielover88:
totally. I dunno I just love writing about... like Nick and Kevin but if the two where to come out in real life... I think I'd find it a bit creepy.
Purpura Lipstick:
--- Quote from: Pengi on July 07, 2010, 02:24:00 PM ---I'm big on reading in the supernatural genre, too, like I said in my post. I definitely think reading & writing niches are very different, too. Personally, I feel like I can't read books in the same niche that I write because I can figure 'em out too easy just because "thats how I would've written it..." lol
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How is it that so many people are coming out reading the supernatural now? *PLUGS MESSING WITH MAGIC AND MORE THAN THAT* Okay not really supernatual but yah! LOL
I know I said I liked to twist things but I'm not sure I do super well at it. I read stories by Mary Higgins Clark and other suspense authors and wow at how they keep everything straight (even though I figure out who it is early)... I've done a bit of it all... I even started a Nick romance *hides from Julie and Rose* but it didn't get super far.
Pengi:
--- Quote from: Purpura Lipstick on July 07, 2010, 10:02:57 PM ---I know I said I liked to twist things but I'm not sure I do super well at it. I read stories by Mary Higgins Clark and other suspense authors and wow at how they keep everything straight (even though I figure out who it is early)
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That's one of the things that makes me marvel the most at book series like Harry Potter or the Lord of the Rings. Every single little detail ties together - from book one to the end. Like even little things that most people overlook completely was explained later in the series and turned out to be crucial for the plot. It blows my mind. Esp. LOTR because Tolkein like literally invented a whole language (there's literally alphabets and dictionaries in elfish that he wrote) just as backstory.... stuff he never intended to actually publish, but that he needed in order to create the world that the characters lived in.
For me, as weird as it sounds, when I start writing, I never know where the ending is gonna turn up. I reread the whole thing every time I add to a story, or at least the last 2-3 chapters. Things fall into place on their own, there's a natural order that comes from that, and it makes for plot twists that fit but are so unexpected because hell, even I had no clue until I really analyzed it a 2nd time. Whenever I TRY to set up a plot twist, its too obvious (ie., the double agent in STDFB2), but twists that I don't try to force are more shocking (I have one written for Time Watcher that hasn't been posted yet that even I didn't see coming when I started the story... but falls in naturally and throws back to something else perfectly).
In my opinion, it's not always the writer that creates the story. Sometimes, with the right story and the right character, the story really creates itself. Characters are created by the writer, but once they've been created they run on their own, and a lot of times I find that a well written character will write the story better than the author could.... lol I definitely attribute my writing skill to the characters that I write about (both in fan fic and original fic).
Purpura Lipstick:
I agree with that completely. A lot of my stories just go with the flow and end up changing (Darkness of Vampires was not supposed to have a sequel but that darn Kevin....) I've often made the comment that my characters don't co-operate with me when I'm writing. I want them to do something and they end up doing something else. Very annoying.
Pengi:
--- Quote from: Purpura Lipstick on July 07, 2010, 10:35:30 PM ---I've often made the comment that my characters don't co-operate with me when I'm writing. I want them to do something and they end up doing something else. Very annoying.
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I find myself going "What'd you do THAT for stupid?" at Nick like a million times when I was writing STDFB - especially the 2nd one (like when he got stuck in the bus window - which that scene wasn't originally even gonna be in the story, but he just insisted.... ::)) lmao :D
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