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mare:
Thanks, Tracy :)

myconfession:
Thanks for mentioning me earlier Tracy :)

I think I might be more well known for the site than an individual stories. When I went to Miami for the acoustic concert before the first cruise, I had some spanish girl walk up to me hugging me. I had no idea what she was saying except for "My confession." I guess she recognized me from my picture on Twitter. If I had to pick a story... it would probably be "I Wanna Be Bad," and I wish I could change that. I wish I would be more well known for something like "The Story of Us" or the "Fearless" series. I think within the NKOTB fandom, I'm more well known for the "Fearless" series because it's the first real story I've written with NKOTB in it.

I think I missed a question, but I'm tired. Today was my first day at my new job and I was already breaking news seven hours into it lol

Got a feeling this new job might break into my writing time :-/

Rose:
It's weird when people recognize you for things. At the NKOTBSB show last summer, I had a few people who came here to Vegas from California come up to me as I was waiting (forever) for VIP. They recognized me from those youtube videos of me singing 10,000 promises with the Boys on the 2010 cruise. I had NO idea who they were LOL, but apparently they knew me!

I used to never have any pictures of me on the internet. I gave up after that because I already knew I was screwed.

Rose:

--- Quote from: DelphinaCarter on August 15, 2012, 09:07:31 PM ---Fanfics in a time capsule?

Definitely Where Can We Go From Here by Whitney, I just read it for the first time last night, and I think it is simply amazing. Really shows the bond between the guys and how they pull together through tragedy.

Running Up That Hill by Sakabelle. Pretty
much for the same reason Mare said. It's a good representation of a tough time in the boys lives.

Song For The Undead by Rose and Julie because its just so good it doesn't really need a reason. Story explains itself, a really great survival story.

A Million Little Things by Mare - this story taking place during Never Gone, another time period in their lives that was explored really well, how the guys have changed and has a lot of real events in it.

I can't think of a 5th story so I will come back with one later.

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Thank you Tracy, I needed the smile this post brought on. :)

RokofAges75:

--- Quote from: Rose on August 15, 2012, 12:55:28 PM ---Why do you feel certain stories are talked about a lot/are popular?

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From skimming over the responses, I think everyone's done a great job at mentioning the things that make a story popular - quality of writing, popular Boy/genre, word of mouth, etc.  I think characterizati on is a big one, too.  The way the Boys and their relationships with each other, as well as any original characters, are written is often the "IT" factor that makes some stories stand out more to me than others.

Between the Lines (the baseball AU) is one that was brought up here.  That story WAS popular back in the day and still gets mentioned often on here.  I've said that it took me a few tries to get into it, mostly because of the baseball AU thing, but once I did, I fell in love with it.  It wasn't because of the baseball.  It wasn't even that it was technically well-written (which it was!).  It was the characters.  Between the Lines has AMAZING characters.  Each of the Boys are recognizable as themselves, even though they're the AU baseball player versions, and the way they fit into those roles is so interesting.  But the relationships they form as part of a team is what makes that story so awesome to me.  It also has some great original characters, too - Kevin's wife and little girl, AJ's wife, and Nick's girlfriend all stand out as unique, interesting characters that I didn't mind reading about along with the guys.

When I think of my all-time favorite fanfics, what separates them from the rest, even others that I consider favorites, are the characters.

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