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Question of the Day Part 5
Carter-Orange:
--- Quote from: mare on August 04, 2012, 09:06:36 PM ---What do you consider your comfort food for fanfic? Like if you had to choose only ONE genre to read or write ONLY ONE!! No cheating!! What is your go to and why?
Like for me and food, whenever we talk about where to eat, no matter what people suggest, chinese food always wins in the end for me. Nothing beats it except maybe the Cheesecake Factory but since I don't live anywhere near one of those... chinese it is, and yes, I had chinese food today lol
Same idea for fanfic, if I had to pick any other genre or action/suspense, I would go for action/suspense every time. I just feel like they move faster, there are rarely if ever, a ton of filler chapters in a good suspense story and it's really the only genre I can think of where I am willing to read an entire story in one sitting, If it's a good story! Same with writing. I move so much faster when writing a suspense than any other genre. My fingers move with the action of the scene.
So, what about you guys?
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Mmm Chinese is my favourite too...and chocolate :)
As for fanfic comfort food, probably drama mixed in with something else, like action or suspense.
Carter-Orange:
--- Quote from: mare on August 04, 2012, 09:13:45 PM ---Another question:
Well not really a question, more like a statement lol Can you tell i'm bored? It figures that no one is around. :(
This is the sentence:
I really wish more people would give (Insert Name of story(yours or someone else's)/idea/genre/fandom/etc...here) a chance because ....
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I really wish more people would give Unwinding Truth a chance because it's an AU, action, adventure and sci-fi type of story set in a post-apocalyptic world and we're enjoying writing it :)
Carter-Orange:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on August 05, 2012, 12:58:02 AM ---I'm having a tough time answering this one, so I'm just going to respond with a couple of follow-up questions LOL.
1. What are your fanfic turn-offs, things that would prevent you from wanting to click on a story to give it a chance?
2. Name a time when you took a chance on a story that you thought wouldn't appeal to you and ended up loving it.
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1. If the summary was really awful and contained spelling errors, or had something like "summary coming later".
2. On The Rails. I remember reading the summary and thinking it wouldn't be for me, the idea of a travelling musician and a mute piano player just didn't do anything for me. But I loved her other story On Nightingale Hill and was bored one day, so I gave it a go and was hooked!
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: DelphinaCarter on August 05, 2012, 01:51:36 AM ---2. Name a time when you took a chance on a story that you thought wouldn't appeal to you and ended up loving it.
Prime example of this was 00Carter. I had seen it pop up several times while roaming most recent but I didn't know if it was something I would read. I was reading a lot of suspense and angst at the time so action/adventure didn't seem interesting.
However I was really bored and came across the story, looked at it and just clicked on it for the hell of it. I was pleasantly surprised, it is really funny and clever, I love how there are "episodes" like it is a TV series. There's so much I could say about 00Carter, but I'm really glad I gave it a shot because I am open to reading all kinds of genres now. You don't know what you'll get unless you click! ;)
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Thanks, Tracy! 00Carter is one of the stories I was thinking of in response to Mare's question; I do wish more people gave it a chance, but at the same time, I completely understand why they don't. Honestly, if I weren't writing it, I don't think I would have ever clicked on 00Carter either LOL. It doesn't sound like my kind of story at all, and it has a lot of elements that I know some people don't like - it's AU, it's a crossover, it has a lot of characters, many of whom are female, it has lots of co-authors, it has long chapters, it doesn't get updated consistently, it looks like a James Bond parody, it has a lot of over-the-top, cartoonish humor, etc. Lots of strikes against it. That said, even though I'm obviously biased, I love it and wish that more people appreciated it. It means a lot that you do! :)
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: Carter-Orange on August 05, 2012, 03:54:33 AM ---2. On The Rails. I remember reading the summary and thinking it wouldn't be for me, the idea of a travelling musician and a mute piano player just didn't do anything for me. But I loved her other story On Nightingale Hill and was bored one day, so I gave it a go and was hooked!
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I really need to read this story sometime. I've heard nothing but amazing things about it, but I was like you - I remember reading the summary when she first started posting it, and even though I knew from reading On Nightingale Hill that it would be well-written, it just didn't interest me. I think at this point, though, I'll probably just wait to see if she finishes it and then go back and read it in its entirety. I'm still waiting for updates on On Nightingale Hill!
Speaking of which, On Nightingale Hill is one of those stories I took a chance on, when I normally wouldn't have. I'm not a big fan of sci-fi, but I'd heard good things about it, so I gave it a try and got sucked in!
Another one would be Between the Lines, which I'd seen nominated for awards and recommended all over the place, but I could never get into it until I literally forced myself to read more than the first chapter, and now it's one of my favorites! Seriously one of the best-written BSB fics I've ever read!
To answer the first part of my question, these are turn-offs for me:
- Improper conventions/formatting or spelling/grammar/punctuation errors
- Overly long summaries that reveal every part of the story and backstory
- Sci-fi/fantasy
- AU
- Crossovers
- Fictional wives/girlfriends/children
- Blatant author self-inserts (especially when the author's picture is in the banner)
- Romance as the main storyline, without interesting subplots/subgenres
- Howie- or Kevin-centered stories
That's not to say I won't read a story if it has one or even more than one of those elements. I've both read and written stories with a lot of those that I've enjoyed. There are always exceptions. In general, though, those are things that make a story seem less appealing to me.
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