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Question of the day part 3 :)
Rose:
--- Quote from: mare on July 13, 2012, 02:53:44 PM ---Tonight's Question
How do you go about writing your action scenes? Do you ever act them out or verbalize before you type it out? Do you ever have difficulties putting in words what you see in your head? I guess this would apply to more than action scenes, I just know for me this is usually the hardest thing to move from my head onto the screen. lol
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I have a playlist specifically for action scenes. Like those rock or upbeat songs you hear in movies that means you know things are about to go full speed LMAO. I start playing that and really just playing it in my head as I kinda stare at the word doc. Then the words just kind of flow. It's really like I jazz myself up before I launch, sort of deal.
--- 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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Depends on the POV really, and sometimes the subject matter. First person ALWAYS takes less time for me. Partly cause I go freeform, I'll get into a character's head and just go. Like I'll run off like they would if they were telling you the story. That, and 1st person often requires a little less googling cause I tend to go with what I feel the character would know. Third person takes longer. Because then I make sure everything flows perfectly, check my wording, check my research because I want to describe everything perfectly. That and I seem to get distracted easier in third person lol. Maybe because once I sit in a character's head, I tend to not leave till the chapter's finished.
Rose:
--- 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 love you for your bringing Walking Dead in here LOL.
I remember toying with it for "Just Another Day", which was just stupid on my part. I tried it and honestly, I wasn't doing much, changing the names more than anything. It was meant to be a fanfic and stay that way so I left it alone after awhile.
You know this, cause I told you at some point (I think), but I've played with the idea of turning RMTW into a OF. It would require a rewrite obviously cause in the FF it revolves heavily around the group. What I would do is turn it into a family, either five brothers (or four), go into relationships, possibly love, as "Nick" would degenerate into the disease. I really like the idea since no novels seem to tackle this concept, the closest being "The Notebook" which was more of a device to more flashback on a love story. No one writes about it as it happens. I also know the subject matter SO well because of the FF, that I know I could write it convincingly.
Not sure yet though.
Pengi:
You should definitely do the OF version of RMTW, Rose.
Rose:
Maybe when my life's a little less chaotic. Definitely not now LOL.
FrickingKaos:
If I could choose a story to make a movie out of....I would love to do Figured You Out or maybe Weird World. Both of those stories would be interesting to make into a screenplay.
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