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50 Shades of Grey - kinda curious on everyone's thoughts

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Pengi:
Thanks! I've been playing with it awhile now. It's been rough with the semester and everything - I feel guilty every time I start writing because I'm procrastinatin g projects - but after this week I'm hoping to get cracking on writing again and the OF of Something Beautiful is definitely where I want to get the most work done.

Are you published, Mare? I should probably know this.

mare:
Yup :) Mel's was published a few years ago. I entered Shadow Woods in a YA contest through Random House and it was a runner up but didn't win.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1413771149/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/175-9329222-8913042

RokofAges75:
Hannah, I think you could totally OF Something Beautiful that way.  They kind of still need to be famous, or the whole Amanda role wouldn't make sense, but making them part of a rock band or something would make it less obvious.  Like I said, no one but a fan would recognize the characters based on their personalities alone, even if they're really well-written, because no one but a fan would "know" the Backstreet Boys that well.

Also, I think writer's base characters on real people - or at least take qualities of real people they know - all the time.  As long as it's not blatantly about the Backstreet Boys, you should be good to go.

Pengi:
I'll defiitely be ordering a copy as soon as I have extra $$ to Mare! That's awesome! :) I can't wait!


As for the Something Beautiful OF...like i said, originally the story was storyboarded as Brian's character being the lead singer for a Christian rock band (think Jars of Clay-esque), and his name was Tyler. Nick's character is the guitarist for said band, and his name was always Nick. Their band was called The Brothers, and they had a drummer named Eddie. A lot of the story had to be altered to make it a FF, so it's not as easy as hitting find/replace to adapt the story to an OF.

But yeah the whole 50 Shades topic caught my attention because of that and the work I've been doing to adapt it to the OF version.

Carter-Orange:
Sounds great Hannah!

Doesn't Jackie Collins use real famous people but change the names? I've read a couple of hers in the past and was sure Al King in Lovers & Gamblers was based on Tom Jones lol.

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