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Question of the Day Part 5
Sakabelle:
What is the biggest motivator for you to write?
Honestly, anything. I just really love writing and finding a story within something that inspires me. Be it a song or something that actually happened, I love to make stuff up lol. When I get an idea I'm really excited about, it's fun to put words onto the page and play around with them to make it read exactly as it plays out in my head.
Oh, I also write to escape stupid things happening in my real life. I wrote a lot when Randy and I were breaking up.
And on the other end of things what is the thing that makes your motivation go bye bye?
It used to be when I had a lot going on in my real life that was good, I wouldn't be motivated to write. Because anything I could dream up in my head was less interesting than whatever real life thing was happening at the moment. But now, I'm not sure. Probably stupid drama. When my story got copied I didn't want to write anything, and didn't for like a week. That completely killed all of my inspiration. (I actually still haven't gone back to the sequel for that story.) I guess if I'm just in a really energetic mood it'll be hard for me to actually sit down and write.
RokofAges75:
Thanks, guys, for all the Curtain Call and RoTS love!!
As far as favorite death scenes go, there are definitely two ways to answer that one - funny or serious. There are so many funny ones in 1000 Ways to Kill Nick Carter and Revenge of the Slaughtered that I can't even narrow it down to one! Tracy and Steph have both contributed a lot of creative deaths, and Erika wrote one where Nick died after ODing on Viagara (they have those warnings about an erection lasting longer than four hours for a reason!) that cracked me the hell up. I think my favorite one to write was the Burning Up death in 1000 Ways. It's not even the most creative of the ones I've come up with; I think it's just the "soundtrack" that makes me like it so much LOL. "The way you shake, shake, shake, shake that ass..." For RoTS, of course it's the Muffin Man one! I will never top that one LOL.
For serious death scenes, I agree with Mare that Brian's death in Scared of Reality was a good one because it was a shocker, happening in the middle of the story just when you thought he was going to get away. Another one for me would be Nick's death at the end of the Swollen Issues series because, although it was coming, it was still a shock in its own right, and it wasn't pretty, but brutally realistic. I respect that. I was so attached to that series that I sort of grieved that one LOL. For my favorite I've written, I have to go with Curtain Call. I am proud of how that scene turned out.
As for saddest scene, I agree with everyone who said the end of Remember Me This Way was really sad. I've kind of built up a tolerance to where I don't cry easily at fanfics anymore, but that one did make me cry. Watching Nick forget what year it was and regress back to the Millennium era, then forget the people in his life and start seeing them as strangers, and ultimately forget who he was... that deterioration was just tragic and definitely brought some tears toward the end. I think the saddest scenes that I've written have been when Brian's whole family died (the first time) in Song for the Undead and Casey's death in By My Side. I remember actually crying over those Casey chapters, and I hardly ever do that with my own stories (though there was some influence from Dumbo there... holy shit, can that movie make me cry!). Apparently killing children, even fictional children in minor roles, bothers me more than killing Backstreet Boys LOL.
Sakabelle:
Oh man, I completely forgot about those Casey chapters in BMS. Yes, I definitely teared up while reading those :(
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on August 07, 2012, 08:25:30 PM ---What is the biggest motivator for you to write?
And on the other end of things what is the thing that makes your motivation go bye bye? lol
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I agree a lot with what Rose and Steph said for both of these questions. I write because I love to write. I enjoy the actual act of being creative and putting words on paper and telling a story, but even more than that, I enjoy the rush I get from it. When my writing is going well, it's easy for me to be in a good mood. Even on Monday morning when I'm not looking forward to a full week of work, I feel better if I've had a successful weekend of writing, especially if I updated Sunday night and wake up to new reviews. Feedback is GREAT motivation. There's no better way to make my day and get me excited about writing more. Writing is my happy place.
I also agree that real life is the number one thing that gets in my way when it comes to writing. During the school year, time is an issue, and mental energy is an even bigger issue. When I come home after a full day of being in teacher mode, I am mentally drained. All I feel like doing is collapsing on the couch and falling asleep in front of the TV. It takes a total rush of inspiration to get me to overcome that and write anything on a weeknight. I do it every once in awhile - I had a nice streak of doing it with Curtain Call - but more often than that, I just can't. And that makes it harder to get back into that mindset on the weekend, when I actually do have time and am not so sleep-deprived and exhausted. But of course, if there are other issues in my life that are stressing me out, that makes it harder to focus on writing, too.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: Sakabelle on August 08, 2012, 12:19:56 AM ---Oh man, I completely forgot about those Casey chapters in BMS. Yes, I definitely teared up while reading those :(
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That was such a small part of the story in comparison, but those chapters have always stuck with me because I remember writing them. I was home from college for the weekend, and I'm pretty sure I spent a lot of it locked in my bedroom at my parents' house with my Dumbo DVD in my computer and that Baby Mine song playing on repeat, literally making myself cry as I wrote. Then I went back to college Sunday night, and when people asked how my weekend was, I thought, wow, what a downer! I spent my whole weekend killing a child with cancer. Weirdo LOL.
Does anyone else actually try to make themselves emotional while they're gearing up to write an emotional part? I did that a lot with Broken and BMS, which may be why they're so melodramatic, because I was being melodramatic as I wrote them! LOL
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