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Question of the Day Part 5

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Rose:
1.  What are your fanfic turn-offs, things that would prevent you from wanting to click on a story to give it a chance?

Poorly written summary
The title being Untitled (for now!) -  variation of that lol. If you don't know your title, you don't know your story well enough to be posting.
Blatant self-inserts. If it's that obvious, I won't read it. You need to try and hide a little bit that this is your fantasy.
Author's picture in the banner
Romances that don't even sound remotely unique in the summary.
Howie or AJ stories (I've been known to read a Kevin one, but it's rare)
NKOTB
Lots of grammar/spelling errors

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.

If We Were a Movie by Honey. It's definitely not my normal type of story LOL. But I knew Kelly was a great writer and I couldn't find anything to read, so I tried it. It's one of my favorite stories now. (See, I don't completely hate romance, I'm just incredibly picky! :P)


Ok, I have another question, and it's a fitting one coming from me. Is there any other fandom besides BSB that you've wanted to write in, but haven't yet?

For awhile I toyed with writing an Inuyasha fanfic, believe it or not LOL. But I never could find a plot I loved enough to ever go for it. I've dabbed in other fandoms and all that, but I've never really stuck to writing them long. Seems like BSB is the only one that holds me LOL.

As for it being harder to write outside of BSB or not, I find it harder. Maybe it's because I like my fics that aren't real person to be more in canon. And I feel like it's harder to keep them in canon than it is BSB. Or maybe because in fanfic outside of real person, they're not my creations so I feel like it's not really mine. I mean yeah BSB are real people not characters I came up with, but I feel like I can add quirks and such based on what we've seen of them. I don't know, I just feel less limited with them LOL.

mare:

--- Quote from: Carter-Orange on August 05, 2012, 03:06:45 PM ---That's a story I want to read, but as it's incomplete and hasn't been updated for over 3 years, I don't want to start it and end up hooked.

--- End quote ---

Yeah, at that point I'd say wait to see if it's ever finished lol

Sakabelle:
I don't know that she'll ever finish it unfortunately =\ I still talk to her on Facebook sometimes but she's been really busy with grad school.

Carter-Orange:
That's a shame, I guess I'll never know how good that story is then :(

Sakabelle:
If I could pick up and finish that story, I would! lol but I'd never be able to do it justice. And I want to read it, not write it.

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