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Question of the Day - Part 4
Rose:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 26, 2012, 03:05:50 PM ---There was a whole long train of thought that brought this question into my head yesterday after our chatty conversation, but I thought I'd wait for a lull to post it. So here it is!
I was thinking yesterday about how we all like to write different things and the reasons I like to write what I do, and I came to the conclusion that there are three types of fanfic writers:
1. Writers who write about things they wish would happen, or their greatest fantasies.
2. Writers who write about things they hope never happen, or their worst nightmares.
3. Writers who write about things that really did happen, either in the Boys' lives or their own lives.
I'm sure most of us do all three, to some extent, but which category would you say you fall into most of the time?
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I've always been writer number two LOL. I always write about things I hope will never happen. Horrible deaths, alien wars, epic accidents. And let's not forget cruel diseases LOL.
Lately, I've been writing more in number three, where it's things that really did happen with my own spin on it.
mare:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 26, 2012, 03:05:50 PM ---There was a whole long train of thought that brought this question into my head yesterday after our chatty conversation, but I thought I'd wait for a lull to post it. So here it is!
I was thinking yesterday about how we all like to write different things and the reasons I like to write what I do, and I came to the conclusion that there are three types of fanfic writers:
1. Writers who write about things they wish would happen, or their greatest fantasies.
2. Writers who write about things they hope never happen, or their worst nightmares.
3. Writers who write about things that really did happen, either in the Boys' lives or their own lives.
I'm sure most of us do all three, to some extent, but which category would you say you fall into most of the time?
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I think I pretty much fall into the last category. I tend to enjoy writing stories where the things I write about have really happened to a certain extent, but then put in enough fictitious elements to liven things up. It's also just not the boys though. I'll sometimes use things that have happened in my life and make the boys have to deal with it. lol I do the second one as well, when it comes to the suspense stuff I write, but I can honestly say I don't think I've ever done the first.
Rose:
You're not alone there Mare. I've never done the first LOL. I don't even read the first typically lmao.
mare:
--- Quote from: Rose on July 26, 2012, 03:20:13 PM ---I'm going to be straight with you. I love sci-fi, I'm a big nerd about it. It used to be ALL that I would write actually. I still love it. I was actually planning on checking out CP because the summary caught my eye till I saw your self-promo tweets. It made me not want to read it until the reading challenge. It's why I picked that story when I got paired up with you, because it was one I'd want to read anyway.
You don't self-promote much now, but with that story, you did. I don't mind fanfic talk, because like I said to Steph, we all do that. But I do feel there's a difference.
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This post is why PMs are a great thing. There's really no reason we all needed to know that. Not in this thread anyway. When you guys fill out the final challenge survey, that's when you can have at it.
Rose:
--- Quote from: mare on July 26, 2012, 03:33:59 PM ---This post is why PMs are a great thing. There's really no reason we all needed to know that. Not in this thread anyway. When you guys fill out the final challenge survey, that's when you can have at it.
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Sorry, I just got offended at the previous post saying I would never read anything of hers, when it's not true.
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