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Question of the day part 3 :)
mare:
There can be as many questions as we want! Yay to you both lol
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: Carter-Orange on July 14, 2012, 02:38:38 PM ---OK, I've got a question, a crappy question, but it's still a question. Roughly how long does it take you to write a chapter?
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It varies a lot for me, and my answer has changed quite a bit over time. It used to be that I could churn out a chapter a day, every day, for weeks at a time. That was back in the early days of writing fanfic when I had a ton of inspiration and not a lot of concern about revising and editing. Also, my chapters were really short, like 1000 words or less.
Nowadays, I can still write a chapter in a day sometimes, but it takes me literally ALL DAY. Not that I continuously write all day, but I do spend most of the day sitting at my computer with Word open. It's more realistic for me to spend at least two days writing a chapter, and even that is only when I have lots of time (like a weekend) and am being fairly focused and productive. This week, I have NOT been very focused or productive, and so I've been working on the same Secrets chapter all week.
My chapters have gotten longer, and I'm a lot more anal about editing as I go, but I think the main reason it takes me so long is that I'm so unfocused. I stop every few sentences, sometimes every few words, to look up something, which usually ends up in me checking Twitter and the forums as long as I'm online, and I can easily waste half an hour doing that. If I would just turn off my internet when I went to write or learn to write on paper, I'd probably get chapters finished a lot faster!
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on July 14, 2012, 02:28:12 PM ---I try to get my cats to re-enact but they never do :(
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It's a good thing you don't write romance, or I'd be concerned. ;)
Sakabelle:
--- Quote from: Carter-Orange on July 14, 2012, 02:38:38 PM ---OK, I've got a question, a crappy question, but it's still a question. Roughly how long does it take you to write a chapter?
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It depends on the story. Running Up That Hill takes me a few hours a chapter - usually an hour for each boy. It's not that the chapters are long, I just need to be ultra focused and get inside their heads so it takes me a while. Then I go back and edit for little things - make sure the guys monologues don't sound too much the same, and I always end up fixing Nick's to take out big words, complicated sentences, stuff like that.
Anything else I'll spend some time thinking about first, it takes me a long time to actually start writing. When I do finally start writing I can churn out a chapter in about an hour or two, but that's because I focus myself on writing and only writing and try not to let distractions get in the way. It's difficult. That's why the sprints work so well for me.
Sakabelle:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 14, 2012, 02:43:34 PM ---I do! I was waiting for a day when you didn't have anything. :)
This question came from watching the Walking Dead marathon last weekend. As those of you who watch the show probably know, the TV show The Walking Dead is based on a comic book series, and the writer of the comic, Robert Kirkman, is also the producer of the TV show. I haven't read the comic yet, but I do know that it's quite a bit different from the show - a lot of the basic storyline seems to be the same, but the pacing of the storylines is different, and the TV show seems to add a lot of stuff that wasn't in the comic, including characters, and leave out other things (so far).
It made me wonder what it would be like to take something you wrote in one format and adapt it into a completely different format. So the question is, have you or would you ever rewrite one of your fanfics in a different format, such as a script/screenplay or even just an original novel? If so, which story and what format? Would you try to keep it as much the same as possible, or would you make major changes, and if so, what kind of changes?
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I took my one AU BSB fic and turned it into an original fic for NaNoWriMo in 2010 I think it was. I kept the basic premise of the plot the same (teenagers in the gaming/anime community and their drama) but I rewrote everything. You can still see shreds of the guys' personalities of the characters I kept (I combined Nick and Kevin's characters into one and kept AJ and Brian) And actually I kept Brian's name the same but other than that I changed everything and completely ditched what I'd written before. I think doing it that way made it turn out a lot better rather than going in and meticulously editing everything to remove the Backstreet-ness from it.
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