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What's your fanfic "niche"?

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Pengi:
I tend to write the lead character as an underdog turned hero - or, in fan fiction's case, Nick. In my stories, Nick is always the underdog, the one no one expects to win... for example, the entire premise of Saving the Day for Blondes is that the other Boys don't believe in Nick, but he ends up being the one they all rely on. I guess it's Cinderella-syndrome! Even in The Time Watcher, Nick is a hero only because he is forced into it by "what he is" - making him a reluctant hero. There's a major part of the plot coming up soon that will test Nick's motives and goals with the ability he's been given. Nick is always pushed to the limits and forced to discover that he can be the hero, despite everyone else's reluctance to believe in him.

I also tend to make AJ be the very sexually-focused character. If anyone's gonna make a sex joke, it's gonna be AJ! And the others will only make similar jokes when it is purposely done in an out-of-character way.

I have issues writing 3-dimensional girls, too, for some reason. So most of my stories tend to focus on the relationships between the guys themselves - friendships being tested, tried, and found to be made of steel.

mare:
Good topic ladies. I don't think we've actually ever dicussed this before.

I guess my thing is family dynamics, more specifically siblings. Growing up I always wanted a big brother more than anything in the world. I guess a younger brother would have been good too but I didn't actually have any male role models of any kind growing up so it's something i've always longed for. I notice I usually kill one or both of the parents when I write things lol my sister pointed that out to me. Probably because of the way I was brought up. So, I tend to center things around the siblings and since I feel more confident writing boys, it's usually brothers. I hate the sterotypical big brother little sister thing so you will NEVER see me do that! Even though I want to be that sterotypical in real life! lmao

That's probably why I latched on to the boys personalities. Normally when I love a group I don't really care much about them as people lol I know that sounds terrible. You know what I mean though? I know basics but that's usually about it but because of their dynamic in interviews, their age differences and how they clearly acted like brothers, I was kind of drawn in.

I tend to only watch shows that have some kind of family (brothers in particular) dynamic included as well. Minus the reality shows of course.

It's the element I feel most comfortable writing in. Well that and erotic Brian porn LOL!

Kentuckychickrk:
Well I'd say I definitely tend to steer towards the angsty category.  I like to write a good tearjerker every now and then.  I also tend to use medical situations (like Grace having cancer in the Nick and Grace series) and Jess being a pediatric nurse in 525,600 Minutes, oh and the transplant situation in Someone's Miracle... so yeah... there's a lot of that  ;)

Don't really know why, I too was always fascinated by that type of thing/situation when I was younger (and still) I love medical shows and honestly, if I could stomach the gore, I would have loved to have been a nurse or a doctor myself.  Instead I just write about it.

RokofAges75:
I don't think it's the gore that would bother me; I couldn't handle the emotional aspect of it.  Giving people bad news, dealing with families who are upset, watching people die and then having to tell their families.  And of course I'm imagining ER; there are lots of doctors who have private practices and probably don't have to mess with that stuff very often, but you'd still have to do it for a rotation in med school, and I don't think I could handle that side of it.  I don't even like having to talk to parents when their kids are having trouble in school LOL.

Not to mention, it's a LOT of work and a LOT of long hours, and I wasn't sure I was ready for that commitment.  Teaching is not an easy job either, but at least I have my weekends and my summers.

Purpura Lipstick:
I don't know if I have a "niche", I like to write stories that have some kind of twist to them, you think one thing and whoop I twist it to be something else. I guess that would be my "niche" then huh?

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